Vicente Fox Wants to Thank Trump For Everything He’s Said About Mexico

Former president of Mexico Vicente Fox penned an op-ed in The Guardian, condemning the GOP frontrunner for his “disgraceful and highly offensive” language.

In the column published Wednesday, entitled “Let’s raise our voices against this dictator, Donald Trump,” Fox writes:

Trump has said Mexicans are the problem, calling us rapists and criminals. He thinks building the “Trump Wall” will right every wrong in the United States. Indeed, he’s built a huge mental wall around himself already, which doesn’t allow him to see the greatness of our people.

Despite that, I want to thank him for his racist and ignorant ideas. Thanks to them, Mexico is in the global spotlight; every day, more and more people inside and outside the United States are realizing the decent way Mexicans live their lives.

He further blasts Trump’s isolationist rhetoric as a “lose-lose” proposition. “He says that he’ll make America great again,” Fox writes, “but I believe he’s only making it worse. America is already great, largely thanks to the hard work and perseverance of immigrants from all over the world who made it their home. Did you know that 40% of the Fortune 500 companies in the United States have been founded by immigrants?”

Fox previously fired volleys in his feud with Trump by saying that the candidate reminded him of Hitler, and by asserting Mexico would not be paying for the “fucking wall.”

[h/t The Guardian]

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