Another former Mexican president hits Trump on immigration
Donald Trump is officially the least popular 2016 hopeful in Mexico.
Just days after former Mexican President Vicente Fox said he wouldn't pay for Trump's "f***ing wall," another former Mexican president, Felipe Calderon, is speaking out against the Republican front-runner's rhetoric on immigration.
"Donald Trump is sowing anti-American hatred around the world, and those seeds can in the future become difficult for the American people throughout the world," Calderon said in an interview with Milenio TV. We live in a place called planet Earth and Trump is turning the American people into that neighbour disliked and hated by everyone. That is something that is not good for the US."
He continued, saying Trump's language is geared toward a "white American supremacy."
"Trump is electorally skillful and, in my mind, he is not doing things in the right way," he said. "He is touching thoughts and feelings more than reasons, and those thoughts and feelings are pointed towards American supremacy but specifically a white American supremacy."
Calderon's comments come just days after Fox called Trump a "crazy guy" and used colorful language to respond to Trump's suggestion that Mexico should pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border. At the time, Calderon echoed Fox's sentiments, saying, "We won't pay a single cent for that stupid wall. It's pathetic ... Trump is completely demagogical."
Mexico's current president, Enrique Pena Nieto, has also been critical of the real estate mogul. The Mexican government "fully discredits and condemns any expression of a discriminatory character ... that specifically hurts Mexicans," he said last fall.