Either by incompetence or some insane, hair-brained, Kramdenesque scheme gone horribly wrong, this trip to Mexico has all the hallmarks of bad 3 stooges skit. I can’t help but wonder if there’s more in the works, some other players who manipulated Trump into this position for reasons of their own.
I have a bad feeling about this. As Josh Marshall writes at TPM:
This confrontation of panic, confusion and poor planning is magnified by a less noted factor. Organizing a foreign trip for a President or would-be president is a highly complicated affair, especially when you figure in security needs. It never gets done on a day's notice. We're now hearing that the US Embassy in Mexico City strongly counseled against the idea. Those folks tend to be quite apolitical and logistics focused. We can't rule out the possibility that Trump's entourage shows up at the wrong palace or isn't able to make it back to Arizona in time for the speech.
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Trump is not going to be welcomed, in fact, there are a lot of people in Mexico who might wish him harm. His security is going to be hard pressed on such short notice to work competently, and goodness only knows how difficult it must be working with Trump to begin with.
I hope nothing happens, I hope he goes there and just continues to make a giant, ignorant, international ass out of himself. But forgive me if my inner alarm bells are going bizzonkers cuz this whole thing has the stench of set up from top to bottom and you can’t argue that there aren’t a whole lotta people (including probably the whole population of Mexico) who have had their fill of Trump and might want to do something about it.