Obama Knocks Trump’s Wall During Timely Visit by Mexican Leader
- Pena Nieto meets Obama at White House day after Trump speech
- Mexican president has compared GOP pick to Hitler, Mussolini
Obama, Nieto Stress Friendship Between U.S., Mexico
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Hours after Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president with a vow to seal the U.S.-Mexico border, the man he’s seeking to replace welcomed the Mexican president to the White House.
President Barack Obama repeatedly derided Trump’s proposal to build a wall across the southern U.S. border in a news conference Friday with his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Pena Nieto, and instead celebrated what he said was a close, effective relationship between the North American neighbors. Pena Nieto’s visit came the day after Trump raged against illegal immigration in a speech accepting the Republican nomination for president,