U. S. President Donald Trump again tweeted his intention to build a wall along the Mexican border today and he produced another mean tweet about America\u2019s southern neighbor, this time stating…<\/b>
\nU. S. President Donald Trump again tweeted his intention to build a wall along the Mexican border today and he produced another mean tweet about America\u2019s southern neighbor, this time stating that Mexico is \u201cnow rated the number one most dangerous country in the world.\u201d But is it?
In a word: no.
Online sites that compile statistics and rank the world\u2019s most dangerous countries do not appear to consider Mexico worthy of their lists, at least not any of the multiple lists this reporter examined.
At World Atlas Mexico isn\u2019t on their list of our world\u2019s 10 most dangerous countries. And in September, the World Economic Forum released a list of the 20 most dangerous countries and neither is Mexico on that list.
Both sites said that when compiling their lists, the criteria they used to find the level of danger in countries included the amount of crime, the degree of political unrest and the economic instability present in a country.
Trump sent out three tweets about Mexico and the wall early Thursday; they were in response to a discussion that took place at a meeting between White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in Washington on Wednesday. Along with the insult, he re-uped his intention to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it.
At the closed-door meeting, Kelly told those assembled that due to natural barriers, not all of America\u2019s southern border with Mexico will need a wall and that Trump had to be told that. Democrats at the meeting made Kelly\u2019s admission public.
Here are Trump\u2019s Jan. 18 tweets, in order, on Mexico and the wall.
The former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, a harsh critic of Trump, spoke with Canada\u2019s CBC Thursday morning and responded to Trump\u2019s latest invective directed at Mexico by criticizing the former reality-show host and his administration.
\u201cIt\u2019s an absolute mess, the White House,\u201d Fox said. \u201cNobody can plan ahead, nobody can think what\u2019s coming.\u201d Fox also said, as others from his country have, including President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto, that Mexico will not be paying to build a wall along their border with the United States.
It is, of course, not the first time that Donald Trump has said pejorative things about Mexico, like telling a rally during the presidential campaign that Mexico is sending only their criminals, drug-dealers and rapists to America. Time Magazine has compiled a list of all the times that Trump has insulted Mexico.
The list is a lengthy one.<\/p>\n

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