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# Mexican Government: President Trump, Peña Nieto Won't Speak About Border Wall Payment

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## Video: President Trump on His Meeting With Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto

[Watch (HLS stream): President Trump on His Meeting With Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZWrweLqR.m3u8) (0:48)

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_Published 2017-01-26. President Trump pushed back on Thursday against the Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's position that his country will never pay for Trump's border wall, arguing that Mexico would pay for the wall indirectly through a U.S. tax reform measure._


by 

[Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/)


## Zeke Miller


Jan 27, 2017 7:41 PM UTC

President Trump pushed back on Thursday against the Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's position that his country will never pay for Trump's border wall, arguing that Mexico would pay for the wall indirectly through a U.S. tax reform measure. 

by 

[Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/)


## Zeke Miller


Jan 27, 2017 7:41 PM UTC

One day after [calling off their planned summit](http://time.com/4650459/mexico-president-enrique-pena-nieto-donald-trump-meeting-cancel/) at the White House, President Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto spoke by phone for more than an hour Friday morning, agreeing to not speak publicly about the payment for the wall, the Mexican government said.

The call comes after a tense several days in which Peña Nieto [sent a blistering statement](http://time.com/4545724/mexico-president-screw-joder-enrique-pena-nieto/) about Trump’s plan to build the border wall and to try to force Mexico to pay for it, and after the White House publicly floated and then retracted a proposal to institute a [20 percent tax on Mexican imports](http://time.com/4650732/donald-trump-mexico-border-wall-pay/).

“The two had a productive and constructive call regarding the bilateral relationship between the two countries, the current trade deficit the United States has with Mexico, the importance of the friendship between the two nations, and the need for the two nations to work together to stop drug cartels, drug trafficking and illegal guns and arms sales,” the two governments said in a “joint statement” released after the call.

But the version of the “joint statement” released by the Trump White House did not include sentence about the agreement to remain silent on payments for the wall. A White House official did not immediately comment on the discrepancy.


## Transcript

The President of Mexico and myself have agreed to cancel our planned meeting scheduled for next week. Unless Mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless, and I want to go a different route. We also need to keep the ballot box safe. From illegal voting. [ APPLAUSE ] And believe me, you take a look at what's registering folks. They like to say Trump, Trump, Trump. Take a look at what's registering. We're going to protect the integrity of the ballot box. And we are going to defend the votes of the American citizens. So important. All of us here, today, for the same reason, to serve the citizens of our country.

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