President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico is not alone among people around the world increasingly frightened by the “irresponsible and ignorant” pronouncements of Donald Trump, The New York Times said in an editorial today.
The newspaper recalled that President Peña Nieto has said that Mexico will not pay for the border wall, as the Republican frontrunner has proposed, and that Trump's demoagogy is “how Mussolini and Hitler got in.”
The New York Times said that Peña Nieto's comments “may be a natural reaction given all the hatred Mr. Trump has hurled at Mexico.”
“In January, the British Parliament held an extraordinary debate on whether to bar Mr. Trump from Britain on the grounds that his comments about Muslims amounted to 'hate speech' (no vote was taken). Last week, Mr. Trump’s exercise in Japan-bashing set off panic in the Japanese Foreign Ministry. In China, his vacillation between proclamations of “love” for the Chinese and fiery pledges of stern action against China for 'ripping us of' has left experts and politicians scratching their heads,” the newspaper added.
