Say what you want about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — and I could say plenty, some of which wouldn’t get past the Personal Liberty™ editors — but he just dealt himself back into the election game, and it looks like he might be playing a pretty good hand.
Maybe it’s his background in the casino business, but Trump took a pretty huge gamble venturing down Mexico way this week. And maybe it’s his background in being shrewder than his detractors wish to admit, but it paid off in spades.
Trump stood his ground on securing the troubled border region between the two nations. Moreover, he got Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto to talk about him in the respectful tones one world leader usually reserves for another. “I had a very open and constructive discussion with Donald Trump. … Even though we may not agree on everything, I trust that together we will be able to find prosperity and security.” For a guy whom Pena Nieto fairly recently described as Adolf Hitler with a spray tan, Trump certainly seemed to have earned at least a modicum of respect from one of his biggest global critics.
Trump and Pena Nieto’s mutual press conference came off seamlessly, even dignified. Trump left his usual bombastic shouting on the plane, while Pena Nieto spoke of future cooperation; even admitting that the northward flow of illegal aliens needs to be addressed. Pena Nieto also noted that the southbound traffic of weapons and cash is a problem; a subtle shot at President Barack Obama’s many miscues, including the disastrous “Fast and Furious” debacle which created scores of widows and orphans in Pena Nieto’s homeland.
With a quick response to an invitation from Pena Nieto, Trump not only managed to engineer a globally-watched event in which he and his host treated one another with positively presidential respect, he managed to restage the foreign policy section of the American Presidential roadshow in his own terms. He also did nothing to push Pena Nieto away from some fairly pointed remarks about the shade Trump has thrown south in ample amounts. Trump shared the stage respectfully, even — dare I say it — presidentially.
And Trump scored a few bonus points. His impending visit was met with howls of outrage from people like Mexico’s ex-president Vicente Fox who claimed to “reject” Trump’s diplomatic venture. He also earned some rather creative death threats from some of the cartel animals who live down to Trump’s generalizations. Without saying a word, Trump let Fox and the other vocal detractors chain themselves to the scum of the earth. Additionally, the death threats from narcoterrorists like the infamous “El Chapo” served to remind not only what a tragically inept leader Fox made, but how the cartels, who operate with virtual impunity, do so with the material assistance of members of the same American party who want Hillary Clinton to run the show.
Best of all, from the Trump fan’s perspective, his confab with Pena Nieto demonstrated the notable absence of the Democrat Party’s anointed heroine. Although she was also invited, Madame Clinton has made no sound about accepting. Now that Trump has already headlined the show, her potential future presence would be the same as her drop-in on Louisiana: insincere, ineffective and delayed due to partying with her mega-rich friends.
Trump’s campaign has been so seat-of-his-pants disorganized, he seemed almost bent on turning his Democrat opponent into the most inevitable president in history. His apparent lack of anything but surface understanding of major issues and his bizarre obsession with the treatment he endures from the corporate media showed me a guy who might very well be running for president for no particularly compelling reason beyond “because it would be cool.”
Trump has yet to earn my vote. But his opponent has absolutely no chance of even borrowing it; mostly because I’m not dead. Don’t think I’m overstating the impact of Trump’s Mexican adventure. It’s just that this week was probably the first time I wasn’t rooting for him to stay there.
— Ben Crystal
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