MEXICO CITY (The Borowitz Report)—The
war of words between Donald J. Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña
Nieto continued on Thursday as Peña Nieto vehemently asserted that he
made the Republican Presidential nominee pay for lunch during his visit
to Mexico City.
“As soon as we sat
down to order, I made it very clear that I had no intention of paying
for lunch,” Peña Nieto said. “And when the check arrived, I made
absolutely no move to pick it up.”
To
support his claim, Peña Nieto tweeted out a photo of himself seated at a
table with an aggrieved-looking Trump, who appears to be placing an
American Express card on top of a restaurant check.
Responding
to the Mexican President’s claim, the Trump campaign issued a statement
of its own. “As anyone who has read ‘The Art of the Deal’ knows, Donald
J. Trump is a master negotiator,” the statement began. “While he did
pay for Peña Nieto’s lunch, he extracted a commitment from the Mexican
President to pick up the check the next time they go to dinner. It’s a
well-established fact that dinner is far, far more expensive than lunch.
Yet again, Donald Trump entered into a negotiation and won big.”
Minutes
after the Trump campaign released its statement, Peña Nieto took to
Twitter again, where he indicated he had “no intention” of ever having
dinner with Trump.
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