Did Donald Trump insult former foreign affairs minister Marcelo Ebrard, calling him a “stupid person” and a “low IQ individual”? President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and Ebrard himself apparently believed he did, but the former United States president and Republican Party presidential candidate appeared to be referring to current U.S. President Joe Biden.
Trump was speaking at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday when he asserted that “Mexico has taken 35% of the [U.S.] auto industry.
” “And we did something very strong with Mexico. But you know when I was building the wall I said ‘you have to give us 28,000 soldiers’ and they laughed at me. I hate when people laugh at me, I hate it,” he continued.
Trump said he told “the gentleman representing the [Mexican] president” — Ebrard in his capacity as foreign affairs minister — that the United States would charge Mexico escalating tariffs “on every car that you send into America” if it didn’t deploy troops to its northern border. “He said, ‘I’d like to discuss this with the president.’ I said, ‘Five minutes.
I’ve got to go. I have something much more important to do.’ He came back, he said, ‘Mr.
President, we would love to give you soldiers to protect your wall .’ Free of charge, of course. That’s how I got those great [illegal immigration] numbers on that beautiful, beautiful graph that we talk about,” the former U.
S. president said. “They gave us everything I wanted.