{"id":2042,"date":"2025-03-27T01:12:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T01:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:02:07","slug":"trump-theys-stepped-it-up-lot-mexico-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/trump-theys-stepped-it-up-lot-mexico-and-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: &#8220;They&#8217;ve Stepped It Up a Lot, Mexico and Canada&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Mexico is Ron Johnson. Not to be confused with Ron Johnson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, this Ron Johnson is a former ambassador to the Central American nation of El Salvador, from 2019 to 2021, during Trump&#8217;s first term. Johnson is fluent in Spanish, which is good for a U.S. ambassador to Mexico.<br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"357\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-26.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-26.png 357w, https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-26-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ronald D. Johnson. Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_D._Johnson#\/media\/File:Ronald_D._Johnson_official_photo.jpg\">U.S. Department of State<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On March 25th, 2025, Johnson and other ambassadors and ambassador  nominees were in attendance at a meeting with President Trump.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They introduced themselves, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/white-house-event\/president-trump-meets-with-us-ambassadors-at-white-house\/657692\">Johnson, addressing Trump, said this<\/a>: &#8220;<strong>Thank you for the nomination to represent you and going to the United Mexican States and really encouraged by the conversations you&#8217;ve had with the President recently and to the increase in support that we&#8217;ve seen of the government on our border, on the border issues, so thank you sir.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To which Trump replied <strong>&#8220;They&#8217;ve stepped it up a lot, Mexico and Canada. Yeah, it works, right?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This seems to indicate that Trump is pleased with border cooperation from Canada and Mexico.   How will that affect the tariffs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Mexico is Ron Johnson. Not to be confused with Ron Johnson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, this Ron Johnson is a former ambassador to the Central American nation of El Salvador, from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/trump-theys-stepped-it-up-lot-mexico-and-canada\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[187,27,54,457,456,16],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","tag-canada","tag-claudia-sheinbaum","tag-donald-trump","tag-el-salvador-central-american-nation","tag-ronald-d-johnson","tag-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}