Mexico's President Sheinbaum offers sarcastic response to Trump's...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "Humor can be a good tactic, it projects strength, which is what Trump responds to.
46% : The exchange has started to answer a larger question lingering over the bilateral relationship between the two regional powers: How would newly elected Sheinbaum handle Trump's strong-handed diplomatic approach, and promises of mass-deportations and crippling taxes on trading partners like Mexico?Sheinbaum's predecessor and political mentor Andrés Manuel López Obrador - who hailed from a similar strain of class populism as Trump, even though he leaned left - was able to build a relationship with Trump as an ally, and his government began to block migrants from going north under U.S. pressure, a boon to Trump.
44% : "Although President Sheinbaum knows it won´t work on everything - Trump and his administration will demand serious engagement from Mexico on the big issues of immigration, drugs and trade.

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