Donald Trump went to Mexico
to meet privately
with President Enrique Peña Nieto
and it was just as successful
as people other than Donald Trump
thought it would be.
At a joint news conference
following the meeting
he backtracked on his oft-repeated promise
of making Mexico pay for a border wall
which also happens to be
one of his very few points
of actual policy
such as it is
clarifying that the two
had discussed a wall
but that it was not yet decided
who would pay for it.
Then Trump flew back to the States
and said to a rally in Phoenix
“Mexico will pay for the wall
believe me
100 percent
they don’t know it yet
but they will pay for the wall.”
At least in the end
Trump got to piss off Mexico
and help ruin Peña Nieto's reputation
with historian Enrique Krauze
saying he had made
an "historic error"
by inviting Trump
elaborating that “You confront tyrants.
You don’t appease them.”
This poem © 2016 Emily Cooper.
