Mexican president issues scathing response to Trump’s offer to dispatch US troops across border to tackle cartels

The pair had a 45-minute phone conversation which Sheinbaum described as ‘very positive’

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has revealed Donald Trump’s ‘proposition’ to ‘help’ the country with drug trafficking and why she firmly said ‘no’.

With Donald Trump having signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico alongside having unleashed tariffs on the country too as part of his bid to ‘hold [certain countries] accountable for their promises to halt the flood of poisonous drugs into the US‘, it’s fair to say relations between the President of the US and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum have been tense.

However, on April 16, the pair had a 45-minute phone conversation which Sheinbaum described as ‘very positive’ despite Trump’s suggestion to send over US armed forces to help battle Mexican drug gangs.

She said: “In one of the calls, Trump said, ‘How can we help you fight drug trafficking? I propose that the US Army come in to help you’.

“And you know what I told him? ‘No, President Trump, the territory is sacrosanct, sovereignty is sacrosanct, sovereignty is not for sale, sovereignty is loved and defended’.”