Sheinbaum Reveals Details of ‘Productive’ Call with Trump
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Photo: Flickr
By KELIN DILLON
During her daily morning press conference on Thursday, Nov. 28, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbuam (CSP) revealed details of a call held with U.S President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday – a discussion CSP said focused on Trump’s central concerns: fentanyl and immigration.
Sheinbaum said that the president-elect’s controversial proposed 25 perfect tariffs on Mexican goods were not discussed in detail; instead, the call centered around the bilateral issues that caused Trump to threaten to levy tariffs in the first place.
“We touched on the reason why tariffs were going to be raised, and there will be other conversations, but the important thing was to address the proposal he made, which is why he would impose tariffs,” said CSP, confirming that “there will be no potential tariff war.”
“What I raised with President Trump is Mexico’s migration strategy that has been in place for months, which has been particularly strengthened since January 2024 in the face of an increase in migration that occurred particularly in the last months of 2023,” continued the Mexican federal executive.
“I raised all of this with President Trump and I told him: the caravan that you put in your social media post, that caravan, is not going to reach the northern border, because we have a strategy that is being addressed in our country,´” added Sheinbaum. “Evidently, he recognized this effort that is being made.”
For his part, Trump took to social media to claim that Sheinbaum “has agreed to stop migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border” while characterizing the call as a “very productive conversation.”
Sheinbaum, however, later clarified on social media that “Mexico’s position is not to close borders but to build bridges.”
The two also purportedly spoke on the fentanyl crisis in the United States, with Sheinbaum saying that Trump showed a particular interest in the effectiveness of Mexico’s “Fentanyl Kills” public service campaign.