--- title: Obama, Nieto, Trudeau: Summit Press Conference Transcript description: Here are the remarks from Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau and Enrique Pena Nieto at Wednesday's press conference of the "Three Amigos" Summit canonical: https://time.com/4388789/three-amigos-summit-transcript-obama-nieto-trudeau/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-29T23:09:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:56:59.673Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read the Remarks From the 'Three Amigos' Summit Press Conference og:description: Here's what Obama, Trudeau and Nieto said about immigration, trade and Trump og:url: https://time.com/4388789/three-amigos-summit-transcript-obama-nieto-trudeau/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec9ae2e754ad718d/69889a230a4a224f369ca4ba/obama-trudeau.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3375 og:image:height: 1898 og:image:alt: obama-trudeau og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read the Remarks From the 'Three Amigos' Summit Press Conference twitter:description: Here's what Obama, Trudeau and Nieto said about immigration, trade and Trump twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec9ae2e754ad718d/69889a230a4a224f369ca4ba/obama-trudeau.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read the Remarks From the 'Three Amigos' Summit Press Conference > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 29, 2016 11:09 PM UTC  From left: Mexican President Enrique Pena Neito, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Barack Obama, stand in front of Parliament Hill during the North America Leaders' Summit at the National Gallery of Canada on June 29, 2016 in Ottawa, Canada. From left: Mexican President Enrique Pena Neito, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Barack Obama, stand in front of Parliament Hill during the North America Leaders' Summit at the National Gallery of Canada on June 29, 2016 in Ottawa, Canada. Pablo Martinez Monsivais—AP  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 29, 2016 11:09 PM UTC President Barack Obama joined Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto at a press conference Wednesday during the [North American Leaders Summit](http://time.com/4386342/barack-obama-summit-canada-trudeau/), where Donald Trump’s policy proposals and comments [took center stage](http://time.com/4388488/three-amigos-barack-obama-justin-trudeau-donald-trump-enrique-pena-nieto/?xid=homepage). The three leaders were asked about the presumptive Republican nominee’s controversial positions on [immigration](http://time.com/4384038/donald-trump-immigration-position-shifting-policies/) and [globalization](http://time.com/4385989/donald-trump-trade-china-speech/). “The genius of America has been to define ourselves not by what we look like or what our last name is or what faith we practice, but our adherence to a common creed,” Obama said. “The notion that somehow we would stop now on what has been a tradition of attracting talent and strivers and dreamers from all around the world, that would rob us of the thing that is most special about America and I don’t think it will happen.” Here are the full remarks from the press conference at the “Three Amigos” Summit in Ottawa, Canada: --- > “” --- **Read more:** [President Obama to Make Clean Energy Pledge With Canada, Mexico at Summit](http://time.com/4384765/barack-obama-clean-energy-pledge-north-america-canada-mexico/) --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4388789/three-amigos-summit-transcript-obama-nieto-trudeau/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4388789/three-amigos-summit-transcript-obama-nieto-trudeau/"},"headline":"Read the Remarks From the 'Three Amigos' Summit Press Conference","datePublished":"2016-06-29T23:09:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:56:59.673Z","description":"Here's what Obama, Trudeau and Nieto said about immigration, trade and Trump","url":"https://time.com/4388789/three-amigos-summit-transcript-obama-nieto-trudeau/","keywords":["White House","Barack Obama","Immigration","Canada","Mexico","trade","Donald Trump","transcripts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec9ae2e754ad718d/69889a230a4a224f369ca4ba/obama-trudeau.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec9ae2e754ad718d/69889a230a4a224f369ca4ba/obama-trudeau.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"obama-trudeau","caption":"From left: Mexican President Enrique Pena Neito, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Barack Obama, stand in front of Parliament Hill during the North America Leaders' Summit at the National Gallery of Canada on June 29, 2016 in Ottawa, C","creditText":"Pablo Martinez Monsivais—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4388789/three-amigos-summit-transcript-obama-nieto-trudeau/","name":"Read the Remarks From the 'Three Amigos' Summit Press Conference"}}]}] ```