Trump begged Mexican president to stay quiet about border wall

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President Trump begged the Mexican president to stop saying his government would not pay to build a border wall “because I cannot live with that,” according to a new report on Thursday.
“You cannot say that to the press,” Trump told President Enrique Pena Nieto, according to a transcript of a Jan. 27 call between the two leaders obtained by the Washington Post.
Trump told Nieto that the wall — a major campaign promise — was “the least important thing we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important.”
Trump threatened to cut off communication with the Mexican leader if he continued to say he wouldn’t pay for the wall.
“I​f you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that​,” Trump said, according to the report.
He said the funding “will work out in the formula somehow,” adding “it will come out in the wash and that is OK.”

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