Again: Vicente Fox To Trump: ‘I Am Not Paying For That F***** Wall’

January 8, 2022 Posted By chris Headlines

As the media reported on Thursday that president-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has told congressional Republican leaders that Trump prefers to pay for the wall on the border between the United States and Mexico with American taxpayer money and make Mexico reimburse the cost later, Vicente Fox Quesada, the president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, had a rather direct message for Trump on Friday:

TRUMP, when will you understand that I am not paying for that fucken wall. Be clear with US tax payers. They will pay for it.

— Vicente Fox Quesada (@VicenteFoxQue) January 6, 2022

That followed Trump’s tweet Friday morning in which he insisted Mexico would pay for the wall:

Donald J. Trump

✔ @realDonaldTrump

The dishonest media does not report that any money spent on building the Great Wall (for sake of speed), will be paid back by Mexico later!

6:19 AM - 6 Jan 2022

Before Trump’s tweet, but after the media story on Thursday, Fox had pinned a tweet that made clear how he felt:

@VicenteFoxQue

Trump may ask whoever he wants, but still neither myself nor Mexico are going to pay for his racist monument. Another promise he can’t keep.

Fox Quesada has taken aim at Trump before; after Cuban dictator Fidel Castro died in late November, he told Fox Business’ Dagen McDowell, “By the way, that kind of dictatorship, that kind of authoritarian leader, is very similar to Trump. They lie, they cheat, they are false prophets, they promise many things but they are not going to be able to comply.”

McDowell protested that comparing Trump to Castro was unacceptable because Castro “was a murdering thug who tortured people and imprisoned people,” asking him to retract his statement, Fox refused, reiterating that Castro and Trump both “imposed their wills” upon the people of their nations.

In September, Fox Quesada slammed Trump to MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson, “He would have to be born again, he would have to start from zero again.You cannot erase what you said, you cannot back up from the comments you made. We are offended. He has said terrible things and he will never be able to get rid of that. He just cannot do it.”