Cancel trip to Washington if you can't pay for wall: Trump to Mexican prez

January 26, 2017 20:32

Talking tough, US President Donald Trump today told his Mexican counterpart that he should cancel his visit to Washington to meet him if Mexico is unwilling to pay for the massive border wall that he wants to build to stop illegal migrants from entering America.

"If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting," Trump tweeted, hours after his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto condemned the US decision to build a border wall and repeated that Mexico would not pay for the wall despite Trump's assertions that it would.

Pena Nieto was scheduled to be in Washington on January 31.

"Mexico does not believe in walls. I've said time again; Mexico will not pay for any wall," Pena Nieto had said in a video statement posted to Twitter.

"I regret and reject the decision of the US to build the wall," he had said.

Pena Nieto said that he would wait for a final report from his top officials who arrived in Washington to meet with the Trump administration, and previous meetings with Mexican legislators, before deciding which steps he would take next.

Trump also tweeted that the US has a USD 60 billion trade deficit with Mexico.

IMAGE: Donald Trump shakes hand with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto during he visit to Mexico in Septmeber last year. Photograph: Henry Romero/Reuters

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