Trump touts Mexico's 'effectively closing' the border after talk with Sheinbaum. She disagrees
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🗓️ 29 November 2024
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President-elect Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke this week, touting a positive conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, Ad-Free right now. |
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| 0:12.8 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. |
| 0:15.1 | Today is Friday, November 29, 2024. |
| 0:18.6 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:25.7 | Today, breaking down a call between Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Shineball, plus how anti-abortion leaders are approaching a new Trump term, and how a |
| 0:31.9 | small community is seeing new challenges after Haleen. President-elect Donald Trump is touting a win against illegal immigration after discussing |
| 0:41.8 | measures with Mexico's president that he says would result in effectively closing our |
| 0:46.9 | southern border. |
| 0:48.1 | But Mexican President Claudia Shahnbaum's takeaway was different. |
| 0:51.7 | She wrote on Twitter, now X, that Mexico's stance is not to close borders, |
| 0:56.2 | but to build bridges between governments and their peoples. Shinebaum and Trump spoke on Wednesday, |
| 1:01.3 | the same week that Trump threatened to impose tariffs on its biggest trading partner. |
| 1:05.1 | Both leaders said they discussed immigration and illegal drugs. |
| 1:08.5 | Trump said in a truth social post that Shineinbaum has agreed to stop migration through Mexico |
| 1:13.1 | and into the United States. |
| 1:15.3 | Scheinbaum said yesterday that she discussed measures that attended to migrants to stop them |
| 1:19.9 | from reaching the border. |
| 1:21.4 | Trump has threatened Mexico with a 25% tariff that would be applied to goods shipped |
| 1:25.6 | to the United States. |
| 1:27.0 | Scheinbaum said yesterday that they did not discuss the proposed tariff during their call. |
| 1:31.7 | But both were positive about the talk, with Scheinbaum calling it a good conversation and Trump |
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