Mexicans wonder why their president even considered a trip to see Trump
What has surprised Mexicans is not that  President Donald Trump  "lost  his  temper" in a telephone conversation with  his  Mexican counterpart  prompting President Enrique PeÃ±a Nieto to cancel a trip to Washington  but that PeÃ±a Nieto was even thinking about going in the first place.
Why  asked foreign affairs analysts and many Mexicans taking to social media Sunday  would the country's unpopular president contemplate another tÃªte-Ã -tÃªte with  Trump  after two embarrassing encounters â that served to strengthen  Trump  politically at the expense of PeÃ±a Nieto?
No one faulted  him  for canceling this trip to Washington  which  he  did Saturday. But many Mexicans questioned what purpose the meeting could have served and wondered if the president and foreign minister  Luis Videgaray  had learned from the humiliations of PeÃ±a Nieto's previous interactions with  Trump . In those conversations  the U.S. president brought up his "big  beautiful" border wall and the prospect of Mexico paying for it â which the Mexican government says will never happen.
"There hasn't been a single meeting [with  Trump ] in which PeÃ±a Nieto has obtained some sort of benefit  whether personal or for the country " said Brenda Estefan  a foreign affairs analyst and former security attache in the Mexican Embassy in Washington. "It's absurd to continue asking for a reunion so they can be trampled."
Others wondered whether the administration still harbored the belief that it could convince  Trump  of the value of the Mexican relationship and sticking with the North American Free Trade Agreement amid tricky renegotiations.
"How bad could things be  when the best news from yesterday was the cancellation of the EPN/ Trump  meeting following a heated phone call " tweeted Gabriel Guerra Castellanos  a former Mexican consul in Toronto. "The incredible part is [the call] saved us from [Trump's] tantrum and not the foresight of our diplomats."
What has surprised Mexicans is not that   [TGT] "lost   [TGT]   temper" in a telephone conversation with   [TGT]   Mexican counterpart  prompting President Enrique PeÃ±a Nieto to cancel a trip to Washington  but that PeÃ±a Nieto was even thinking about going in the first place.
Why  asked foreign affairs analysts and many Mexicans taking to social media Sunday  would the country's unpopular president contemplate another tÃªte-Ã -tÃªte with  Trump  after two embarrassing encounters â that served to strengthen  Trump  politically at the expense of PeÃ±a Nieto?
No one faulted  him  for canceling this trip to Washington  which  he  did Saturday. But many Mexicans questioned what purpose the meeting could have served and wondered if the president and foreign minister  Luis Videgaray  had learned from the humiliations of PeÃ±a Nieto's previous interactions with  Trump . In those conversations  the U.S. president brought up his "big  beautiful" border wall and the prospect of Mexico paying for it â which the Mexican government says will never happen.
"There hasn't been a single meeting [with  Trump ] in which PeÃ±a Nieto has obtained some sort of benefit  whether personal or for the country " said Brenda Estefan  a foreign affairs analyst and former security attache in the Mexican Embassy in Washington. "It's absurd to continue asking for a reunion so they can be trampled."
Others wondered whether the administration still harbored the belief that it could convince  Trump  of the value of the Mexican relationship and sticking with the North American Free Trade Agreement amid tricky renegotiations.
"How bad could things be  when the best news from yesterday was the cancellation of the EPN/ Trump  meeting following a heated phone call " tweeted Gabriel Guerra Castellanos  a former Mexican consul in Toronto. "The incredible part is [the call] saved us from [Trump's] tantrum and not the foresight of our diplomats."