Mainecat Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Trump is a dick... After an earthquake and a hurricane — and Trump's failure to send condolences — Mexico rescinds offer of aid to U.S. Mexico on Monday withdrew its offer of aid to the United States to help victims of Hurricane Harvey, saying those resources are now needed at home as Mexico recovers from a separate hurricane and a devastating earthquake. Last month, as Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston with days of record-breaking rains, Mexico issued a statement offering to send food, generators and medical aid to Texas “as good neighbors should always do in trying times.” Mexico offered help even as President Trump was attacking the country on Twitter, calling Mexico “one of the highest crime nations in the world” and reiterating his claim that Mexico will pay for construction of a border wall between the two nations. While Trump never responded to Mexico’s offer, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said his state would accept the country’s aid. In a statement released Monday, Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said that aid is now being redirected to care for Mexican families and communities still reeling from the recent one-two punch of natural disasters that struck the nation. At least 95 people died in Thursday’s magnitude 8.1 earthquake, according to the Foreign Ministry, most of them in the southern Mexican states of Oaxaca and Chiapas. While aid has arrived in many of the hardest-hit regions, where thousands of homes were reduced to rubble, local media have reported that in some places, survivors are still waiting for help. While authorities scrambled to dig victims from rubble and provide shelter to the homeless on Mexico’s southwestern coast, a Category 1 hurricane struck Mexico’s Gulf Coast on Saturday. At least two people were killed by Hurricane Katia, which was downgraded to a tropical storm shortly after making landfall, officials said. Trump did not offer condolences to Mexico after either disaster, as is common when tragedies befall U.S. allies, even as multiple American mayors and governors offered their sympathies and help. Nor did Trump offer U.S. aid to Mexico. Trump’s silence as the earthquake death toll climbed was widely seen here as another sign of Trump’s cool attitude toward Mexico. While Mexico is a major U.S. trading partner and has for decades been a steadfast ally, Trump has blamed Mexico for sending drugs and criminals into the U.S. and for stealing American jobs. Negotiators from the U.S., Mexico and Canada are locked in a tense renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the landmark trade deal Trump has threatened to scrap if he does’t win major concessions from Mexico. In its statement about rescinding aid on Monday, Mexico’s Foreign Ministry made a special point to thank Abbott, who after the earthquake pledged to “stand with Mexico and offer whatever aid and assistance we can to help them recover after this disaster.” The Foreign Ministry also expressed the Mexican government’s “full solidarity with the state of Florida in the face of the severe impact of Hurricane Irma.” “Mexico will be aware of the development of this phenomenon in the following days, and hopes that soon the state of Florida as well as the state of Texas and the state of Louisiana will recover from the damages caused by the hurricanes that have impacted them,” the statement said. Several hours later, Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray received a phone call. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was on the line. “Tillerson offered his condolences for the loss of life and the devastation caused by the earthquake in Mexico and from Hurricane Katia,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said. “He emphasized to Foreign Secretary Videgaray that the U.S. government stands ready to assist our neighbors in Mexico during this difficult time.” http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-aid-20170911-story.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepr2 Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Texas and Florida have enough wept backs already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaturallyAspirated Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Wow is Trump a cock. Neal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Oh lord! Whatever will we do now? I guess that $300M we send Prez. Gonzales only goes so far. ......wait a minute. I didn't see where he sent us condolences for our little natural disasters. Let's nix that aid. Tit for tat! LA TIMES. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticCrusher Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Aid thats dependant on what someone tweets? Give it a rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bussman Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActionfigureJoe Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 1 minute ago, bussman said: wtf? what part of the internet are you visiting to find this stuff ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 4 minutes ago, bussman said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticCrusher Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 2 minutes ago, ActionfigureJoe said: wtf? what part of the internet are you visiting to find this stuff ? Wtf was that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bussman Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 4 minutes ago, ActionfigureJoe said: wtf? what part of the internet are you visiting to find this stuff ? AFJ_vs_SpinDry.ca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActionfigureJoe Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 6 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said: Wtf was that? i've seen a lot weird shit....but i ain't asking on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodtick Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 32 minutes ago, bussman said: For the win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oleroule Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 that's it....he'll never get elected. oh wait... way to go, mc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaturallyAspirated Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 40 minutes ago, bussman said: Too bad, because Trump is making us look like the dickbags we are. Neal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted September 13, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 13, 2017 Two huge natural disasters of our own and MC is worried about Mexico Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member SnowRider Posted September 13, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 13, 2017 ^^^^^ Read the OP again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T1R9sledder Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 11 hours ago, bussman said: Good Gawd!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 "Mexico on Monday withdrew its offer of aid to the United States to help victims of Hurricane Harvey, saying those resources are now needed at home as Mexico recovers from a separate hurricane and a devastating earthquake. " I wish our politicians in Washington would start saying the same thing to all the other countries that we give aid too. We are trillions in debt and our resources are need at home. PERFECT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActionfigureJoe Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 3 hours ago, Skidooski said: Two huge natural disasters of our own and MC is worried about Mexico america first!!!. selfishness made this nation great once and it'll do it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted September 13, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 13, 2017 23 minutes ago, ActionfigureJoe said: america first!!!. selfishness made this nation great once and it'll do it again. A few kind words would have made all the difference "Sorry Mexico, here's some cash"....now back to our own tragedies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted September 13, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 13, 2017 4 minutes ago, Skidooski said: A few kind words would have made all the difference "Sorry Mexico, here's some cash"....now back to our own tragedies No shit. Mexico could care less about what he says. He simply wants our cash. Fuck him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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