Billionaire businessman Carlos Slim will be among the Mexicans present at the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States in Washington D.C. on Monday.
Francisco Cervantes, president of Mexico’s influential Business Coordinating Council (CCE), told reporters this week that he will attend the inauguration with Slim, Mexico’s richest person and owner of companies such as Telcel, Telmex, Sanborns and Carso Infrastructure and Construction.

“We’re going to be in Washington, we’re invited to the dinner. We’re going to be there with the high-ranking United States officials to start having talks,” Cervantes said Wednesday after leaving a meeting at the National Palace between President Claudia Sheinbaum and Mexican and Canadian business leaders.
Sheinbaum not among inauguration invitees
Mexico will officially be represented at the inauguration of Trump by Ambassador to the United States Esteban Moctezuma. Sheinbaum confirmed this week that she hadn’t been invited to the quadrennial event.
According to the Associated Press, no foreign head of state has ever attended the inauguration of a U.S. president. But that is set to change on Monday as a number of world leaders including President Javier Milei of Argentina and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador were invited to Trump’s inauguration and at least some are expected to attend.
The commencement of Trump’s second term as president could have an almost immediate impact on Mexico, as the president-elect has pledged to impose a 25% tariff on all Mexican exports on day one and promptly start his planned mass deportation operation.

Cervantes said Wednesday that the CCE has been working with the government on a plan aimed at averting tariffs on Mexican goods.
“We’re preparing to negotiate,” he said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Sheinbaum said her administration would “have dialogue with the United States government” as it seeks to avoid the imposition of tariffs on Mexican exports.
She has previously said that Mexico would impose a reciprocal tariff on U.S. exports if the Trump administration were to impose a tariff on Mexican exports. Sheinbaum reiterated this week that the federal government’s plan to receive large numbers of deportees from the United States during Trump’s second term as president is “ready.”
Slim confident that Mexico will ‘do well’ during Trump’s second term
In November, Slim asserted that Mexico will “do well” during Trump’s second term as president because the Mexican and U.S. economies are “very complementary.”
Mexico and the United States are currently each other’s largest trade partners with two-way trade worth almost US $800 billion in the first 11 months of last year.
Sheinbaum has stressed that Mexico, the United States and Canada all benefit from the USMCA free trade pact, which is up for review in 2026.
However, Trump has railed against the United States’ large trade deficit with Mexico, and accused the country of being a transshipment hub for Chinese goods. He has said he will renegotiate the USMCA, and pledged that his proposed tariff on Mexican exports will remain in effect “until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!”
Time will tell whether he keeps those promises.
With reports from El Economista and Infobae
The headline misrepresents the state of play in US inaugurations. Like the NYT, you find out that it’s not usual for foreign heads of state to be invited. Carlos Slim seems more the type of invitee that Trump would prefer, especially since he has an outized level of influence here. President Milei is positioning himself as a Monroe Doctrine cheerleader and ally, so that’s the reason there. President Bukele, for better or worse (I haven’t read many details), has achieved a remarkable level of crime reduction in El Salvador, which is very attractive to politicians who see themselves as no-nonsense boosters of consequences for criminal behavior.
Trump is blustering, as he usually does. US sanctions would probably hurt Mexico a lot this year and next, when the USMCA comes up for review. However, the day is approaching where it will be obvious that US sanctions on a country with the resources of Mexico will actually hurt the US more than it does Mexico. BRICS+ is already becoming an alternative to the US “Rules-based international order” i.e. the Monroe Doctrine for the world.
To be a real Strongman-Hero-Cacique Mayoral, Trump should invade Nicaragua and Honduras, expel the corrupt dictators and actually Nation-Build….for the People. Dreams from Acapulco…..
O my glory! xxgallo…you’ve got to be kidding! Do you have any clue of USA history and its toppling of the leadership….and, once it topples and the USA’s preference is installed….then what happens? take a look at Ukraine….USA helped engineer a coup of the Democratically elected President in 2014….would you want Honduras or Nicaragua to suffer a fate akin to Ukraine’s fate today
Oops: should be “Like the NYT, you find out . . . *much lower in the article.*”
Presidenta Claudia:
The fact that you were not invited is a compliment, not an insult. It means that he recognizes that you are intelligent, strong, and not someone to be bullied. He is and always has dodged such encounters, because he is un cobarde de mierda y siempre lo ha sido. Problema no hay, un cobarde de mierda y siempre lo ha sido.
Ouch! 🍿🍺
EXACTLY, m’Mannnnnn……Saludos desde Acapulco!
Agree with you 100%. Trump is petrified of strong, independent women.
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She was not invited because Trump is afraid of strong intelligent women. He could not even look at Kamala in the eyes while debating her.
. . . most likely because Harris was not a strong intelligent woman . . . now, speaking of venn diagrams and why Russia invaded Ukraine, Harris is quite accomplished ( “Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically that’s wrong.” said Kamala Harris in July 2024 )
Why can’t we have “like” or “thumbs up” icons to click on each comment. All the ones above deserve many thumbs up!
TOTALLY AGREE. I have stated that Mexicans had the balls and education to elect a strong intelligent female president, whereas here they could not see beyond the fake news and blustering machismo. Reflects poorly on the USA, and I live here.
Estoy en acuerdo!
Like the NYT, you find out that it’s not usual for foreign heads of state to be invited. So nothing to do with Sheinbaum being a woman.
She is the just like the last President, except in a skirt. The cartel grew more aggressive, kidnappings, massive graves and it will continue with her until someone cares about the Mexican people who are missing and eliminate the cartel with whatever it takes. There are the good cartel and the bad cartel; ask the people. Until both are gone, and the government makes health care and education first, for all citizens in the country, it will not grow into the super power it could be. Why wouldn’t they want that?????
The good cartel has always existed in the USA which now has a fELON president.
. . . when considering a “Reign of Terror” Jacobin court presided over by a Robespierra judge . . . well then yes
Most world leaders are not attending, and it would be belittling for Presidente Sheinbaum to attend. She doesn’t need to grovel at the feet of this clown. This is not really a crowning of a King or an Emperor, it is only the result of a flawed election. Carlos Slim is invited because The Oligarchy favors the rich, especially if they hope to take advantage of him, and Mexico.
. . . flawed because Harris & Walz lost ???
More stupid statements. When you are not invited to a “party”, it means. they simply don’t like you. Trump is not the type of president who is going to be “bend down” like all the other past US presidents (Clinton, Obama, Bush, and Biden). Carlos Sims attendance at Trump inauguration is not going to make any difference.
It is a waste of time for Carlos Sims to travel to Washington DC in the extreme cold weather, to “freeze his “butt”. It a shame for Mexico and especially all the Mexican people, but here is the bottomed line, —“President Sheinbaum still “talks”, and “acts” and “thinks” just like Manuel Lopez Obrador and therefore, President Trump will continue to give her a “thumbs down”.
My prayers are that Mexico not become a so called “super power.” The last thing the world or Mexicans for that matter need is another one of those. Mexico has set an example so far that growth and positive relations within as well as with other countries are possible without “reigning supreme” or spending more on hi tech bombs and weaponry than the individual advancement of the people. Long live Mexico.
Just wait until the costs of food, etc and the inflation it increases starts to have an affect on the MAGA supporters. Yes, Mexico will hurt but can Trumpy afford to hurt every day Americans?!??
Governor NewsCUM did that to his California electorate, but he sure looks and talks “swell” . . .
Having lived 16 years in Mexico and 17 in the U.S. I am able to view bilaterial issues in a more balanced way. Honestly, independent of any double moral standard of the U.S., Mexico needs to start educating our national heroes within and outside the country that crossing a border without the proper permit is morally wrong regardless of the reason (be it economic or otherwise). We need to start speaking morally even though hour neighbor to the north behaves otherwise. That would be a great bonus for our new Presidenta.
The goal should be to retain those potential unlawful border crossers to remain in Mexico where they could be benefit for the nation. People who leave the country are for the most part healthy, ambitious, creative and hard working. We need that kind of people to stay in Mexico, but there is a great need to teach the population about moral living. When we do that, the U.S. will respect us.
Maybe he could stay there! Greedy old man! His Telmex and Telcel are rip offs. Got tired of my land line seldom working and constant billing errors so after 15 years with Telmex I canceled. Also birds of a feather flock together! Slim and Trump go together perfectly…..
There sure are a lot of hysterical people making comments.
I like your dream 🙂 there’s a lot of true in your statement. It’s an ashame the Shainbum wasn’t invited but Trump is going to have to fight The Cartels,Fetanyl ans Socialism; Trump senses that she protects criminal cartels & is hand in hand with Winnie Phu,the Chinese president.
It’s shocking to read the comments” there are good cartels and bad cartels”. Too much ignorance of people being jealous of a successful though leader.Watching TV and let the news think for you is huge…Not much critical thinking here but enough if you get to see how the latinoamericana countries are doing.
. . . as one of the “forgotten man,” and a “little people” person, I would have preferred Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum have been invited . . .