The Donald is like the socially awkward person who you tell “let’s have coffee some day” and knock at your door unannounced the next Saturday at 8AM.
Judging by my Mexican friends’ reaction (the ones from Mexico) this will hurt Peña Nieto. I am guessing that after this there’ll be no more “let’s have coffee some day” coming from any other country.
My thoughts are with the various drug cartels. Hoping they’re in the mood for kidnapping and have plenty of lye and acid laying around for disposal.
Okay, I’m evil. But they can at least pickpocket him!
As much as I’d never want to see a presidential candidate hurt, I’d really be satisfied if he returned with a raging case of Montezuma’s Revenge or the Aztec Two Step.
ETA: Shit…
You can’t track Trump’s plane on line now.
“…Now, if you see Saint Annie, please tell her thanks a lot
I cannot move, my fingers are all in a knot
I don’t have the strength to get up and take another shot
And my best friend, my doctor, won’t even say what it is I’ve got…”
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Well, he won’t be in Juarez, it probably won’t be raining, and it definitely isn’t Easter time.
Dammit! Now I have to go and put away all my ICBMs and launching system. Thanks, Obama! 
Easy. Trump will just point out he’s not President yet. He can say that as a candidate, he went down there to look the situation over. Then he can say that when he’s elected he’ll go on to fix the problem. As a candidate, he can promise everything while not being held accountable for delivering anything.
It’s a win-win situation for him. The only potential problem Trump faces is, as usual, himself. He could overplay his hand and say something stupid.
He is currently there, supposedly a statement is being made while I type this.
Trump demurred to the Mexican government’s advice as to how to stage their “presser”. First round of negotiations: LOST.
And Bob Dylan has more money.
I disagree. Trump can cast this as a confrontation of Trump vs Mexico. So he’s going in as David fighting Goliath except with no actual danger. And as a candidate, he’s not expected to actually achieve anything so he can’t fail.
And how can Clinton and Obama respond? If they do nothing, they cede media attention to Trump. If they offer Trump any support, they give him credibility. If they do anything to undermine Trump, they’re taking Mexico’s side: Trump will be able to say he was fighting for American interests while Clinton and Obama were fighting against them. If Clinton goes off on a foreign mission of her own, it’ll look like she’s just copying Trump.
No, I have to give Trump credit. This was a smart move for him.
Trump gets killed in Mexico, the Republicans get to nominate some more normal candidate to run against a widely disliked Clinton, plus the anti-immigrant position gets a boost from the assassination.
You sound like a Republican, dreaming pleasant dreams.
Trump has often portrayed himself as an outsider, but never as David fighting Goliath, and I can’t imagine him ever doing that.
I just can’t imagine this helping him much, at best it will prompt no change.
<Buddhist monk> We will see… </bm>
Sounds like President Pena Nieto wants to sell Trump on building a wall on Mexico’s southern border.
Honestly, I’d be willing to take the chance of a Republican victory as long as it didn’t involve Trump.
So Nieto extended the invitation to Trump and Clinton, Trump hopped on a plane and met him, while Clinton hasn’t accepted his offer and is sitting back in the US criticizing Trump for going and saying “relationships take a long time.”
I don’t think Clinton won this one.
<Buddhist monk> We will see… </bm>
The situation’s a little different, but the reasoning is the same: Trump beats the Democrat to the photo op. Just like the flooding in Louisiana. I don’t think that helped Trump much at all, and neither will this. In fact, this is a combination of his LA flood trip and his not-too-distantly-past trip to Scotland, which didn’t help very much, either. I think from the outer world’s POV, it’s as much of a question of why is he making these trips, because not much seems to come from them.
Whole bunch of nothing. This may shift the polling a point or two for a week, but any substantive shift - not bloody likely.
When asked “Who pays for the wall?” Trump’s response: “We didn’t discuss that.”
Yup, strong leadership and skillful negotiations on display there! :rolleyes: