Did Donald Trump insult former foreign affairs minister Marcelo Ebrard, calling him a “stupid person” and a “low IQ individual”?
President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and Ebrard himself apparently believed he did, but the former United States president and Republican Party presidential candidate appeared to be referring to current U.S. President Joe Biden.
Trump was speaking at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday when he asserted that “Mexico has taken 35% of the [U.S.] auto industry.”
“And we did something very strong with Mexico. But you know when I was building the wall I said ‘you have to give us 28,000 soldiers’ and they laughed at me. I hate when people laugh at me, I hate it,” he continued.
Trump said he told “the gentleman representing the [Mexican] president” — Ebrard in his capacity as foreign affairs minister — that the United States would charge Mexico escalating tariffs “on every car that you send into America” if it didn’t deploy troops to its northern border.
“He said, ‘I’d like to discuss this with the president.’ I said, ‘Five minutes. I’ve got to go. I have something much more important to do.’ He came back, he said, ‘Mr. President, we would love to give you soldiers to protect your wall.’ Free of charge, of course. That’s how I got those great [illegal immigration] numbers on that beautiful, beautiful graph that we talk about,” the former U.S. president said.
“They gave us everything I wanted. I got everything from Mexico,” continued Trump, who asserted in 2022 that Mexico “folded” and agreed to place troops on its northern border to stem illegal immigration to the U.S. when he threatened in 2019 to impose blanket tariffs on Mexican imports.
“And then this stupid person, low IQ, he’s a low IQ individual. Take his IQ. I guarantee you it’s in the low 50s or 60s. And he’s negotiating against Putin, President Xi of China, Macron of France.”
Although he had been speaking about Ebrard, the Republican candidate was almost certainly referring to Biden as a “low IQ individual.”
The target of his mockery became even clearer with a subsequent remark he made.
After recounting how he obtained a favorable outcome for the United States by making a tariff threat against France during a conversation with President Emmanuel Macron, Trump said:
“You think Joe Biden does that? He doesn’t know what the hell’s he doing.”
Sheinbaum responded to Trump’s remarks in a social media post.
“I regret the rude language of ex-president Trump and of course I disagree with his opinion about Marcelo Ebrard,” she wrote.
“For me he is one of Mexico’s best public servants and he will be a great economy minister for our country, which no one should forget is free and sovereign,” the president-elect added.
Ebrard, who Sheinbaum announced as her economy minister last month, also responded to what he saw as a slight against him.
“When you’re insulted during a campaign, as ex-president Trump just did [to me], there is always an electoral purpose: to gain supporters,” he wrote on X.
“I will never accept an appraisal from a candidate abroad. He doesn’t intimidate me. I will defend the interests of Mexico with complete dignity and strength,” Ebrard added.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — who Trump mistakenly said Saturday is “no longer president” — weighed in on the matter on Monday.
“I support the president-elect because she is who will represent us,” he said after a reporter at his morning press conference noted that Sheinbaum had come out in defense of Ebrard.
“… And of course I have a lot of admiration for Marcelo Ebrard as a public servant. If there was confusion [about what Trump said] it should be cleared up,” López Obrador said.
“And let it be clear that we Mexicans, with Claudia Sheinbaum [as president], are going to insist that a policy of good neighbors is maintained with the United States because it’s in our interests, not just of the [two] governments, but also of … our people, the Americans and the Mexicans. So no to confrontation and yes to dialogue, cooperation, agreement and respect for our sovereignties,” he said.
After Trump gave a fiery anti-migrant speech at the U.S. Republican National Convention last Thursday, López Obrador said he would sent a letter to his “friend Donald Trump” because he believes that “they’re not informing him well about the migration issue and also about the importance of maintaining economic integration between the United States, Mexico and Canada.”
Mexico News Daily
Trump is the low IQ, stupid individual in this story. He frequently says things about others that represent his own traits / views. His handler Putin describes him as a useful idiot and his penpal romancer Kim Jong Un calls him a dotard. Trump represents the worst the USA has to offer.
You are being to kind to ‘Don the Con’…..Pick literally any disgusting , despicable human trait , and Trump has it. And people want him to be president. Un believable
You are the low IQ if you don’t understand he was talking about the senile criminal Biden. The fact that you think Trump is controlled by Putin, besides being laughable but sad at your IQ level. Perhaps there are mental help you can get for your TDS.
He graduated Wharton, where did you get your degree from?????
Man don’t even start. Even Rex Tillerson says Trump is an idiot. You have two eyes and two ears. If you can’t figure it out, bless your heart.
tRump’s carelessness and imprecision with words is a byproduct of his alligator mouth, which always engages before his feeble brain does. He owes a sincere (good luck with that) apology to Ebrard and the Mexican people.
There’s likely little doubt that Trump was actually referring to Biden. Trump’s moronic inability to maintain & express any coherent trains of thought are typically responsible for such blunders.
“no to confrontation and yes to dialogue, cooperation, agreement and respect for our sovereignties,”
I am so proud to be living is this great country, Mexico, and represented by kind and careful statesmen
Look at it this way – Trump has done more to send us gringos south of the border to find that kindness and decency is alive and well and you make us very thankful and grateful to allow us to be guests in your beautiful country. Ignore the FATSO Big Mouth. Most people in America (not his acolytes) harbor good feelings towards Latinos. Hell, USA is becoming Latino. Diversity makes us both stronger. Unless you are a sick MAGA rapist felon like Trump. People like me are happy to spend dollars here. To a part of your community. To learn your language with great respect. The Anti-Social Media (HORRIBLE) brings out the worst in everybody. Viva la Mexico! The happy side of the wall.
Claro! I am also an expat living full time in Mexico. I’m thrilled that a beautiful mixed-race woman is destined to defeat the depraved Orange A-hole. Estoy muy emocionada!
THANK YOU DONALD TRUMP!!! Because of you, a female, kinda ethnic/Black/whatever is now absolutely acceptable, downright desirable!, to become the next President of the U.S. of A.
Yippee!!
Trump always projects his criminality and lack of competency on his opponents. whatever he calls them you can be sure he is deflecting. He’s a con man who feeds on the worst instincts of his cult. He has little grasp of issues. His intelligence quota is very low and is constantly on display as he cannot coherently cobble together anything bit the most rudimentary vocabulary and when he knows he doesn’t know just lies. I’m excited at the possibility of 2 women in charge of 2/3 of North America. Both intelligent and way more competent than Trump.
The above comments to date do not represent the views of all the Expats living in Mexico. There are many of us that follow sources of information that are based on in depth, factual information about current events (and their history) than those following the corporate, main stream media. American and Mexican citizens are pawns in a dangerous global chess game. The censorship by media and tech companies (controlled by governments) hurt us all. We are easier to control when divided. So please, folks, let´s not fall into this trap.
The Orange Pod Scum is what he is. His cult confuses insulting with strength. Anybody with a brain who has been following him over the years realizes he is a narcissistic, authoritarian, pathological liar and ignores him. The only thing that makes Trump less dangerous is that he is an incapable buffoon.
Trump is very aware of what he says, the fact he has a shallow understanding, frequently, does not get in the way of a great story. We recall that he has been on record that any publicity, negative or positive, is good, for it keeps him in the public eye. That is all he wants as it reinforces a main reason he is popular among 72 million who voted for him, that being, those most in support of him reflect their like for what he most brings to the table, that being a love of being anti-anyone who dares to question his grasp, or who does not love his anti-systemic approach to everything, from running for President, to paying workers (just ask the Polish workers who he brought over to build the first Trump Tower, years ago, in New York, then refused to pay them). Hopefully Harris will have the technique to go with her intelligence to call him on the 30 lies he told in the debate with Biden (who himself told 9 falsehoods). All the best to the Mexican people, the vast majority in my experience there, being honest, law-abiding, family loving people who want to get along with others!
Trump is nothing but an idiot.