Vicente Fox calls Trump 'a beast' in latest criticism
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox laid into President Trump again, this time labeling the leader 'a beast,' while attending an Oakland, California Cannabis conference.
'I think it’s distinctive to Donald Trump to be such an ignorant … such a disrupter, to be such a destroyer,' Fox said at the Cannabis Business Summit, according to the local CBS affiliate.
When asked how he would deal with Trump if he was still the president of Mexico, Fox replied, 'Don't ask me that question.'
'How do you treat beasts? You domesticate them. Or you at least try,' he continued.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox criticized President Trump at the National Cannabis Industry Conference in Oakland, California
When asked how he would deal with President Trump, former Mexican President Vicente Fox said, 'How do you treat beasts? You domesticate them'
'When you create fire, you burn yourself. When you create a storm – denigrating others, offending others – you get what you promoted,' the ex-president added.
Fox has given Trump frequent tongue-lashings.
The original Fox outburst occurred in February of 2016 when the former Mexican leader went on a profanity-laced tirade, saying he would not pay for the 'f---ing wall.'
Trump has long called for a border wall to be built between Mexico and the United States, promising supporters that he'd get Mexico to pay for it.
Fox also called Trump 'ignorant,' 'crazy,' egocentric,' nasty' and a 'false prophet.'
A year later, Fox tweeted a similar thing.
'Sean Spicer, I've said this to Donald Trump and now I'll tell you: Mexico is not going to pay for that f***ing wall,' Vicente tweeted.
Shortly after Trump's election – and around the time of Cuban leader Fidel Castro's death – Fox said the American president was 'very similar' to the totalitarian leader.
'Cuba is going to be a great Latin American nation as soon as they get rid of the Castros,' Fox said during an appearance on Fox Business Network.
By the way, that kind of dictatorship, that kind of totalitarian leaders, is very similar to Trump,' Fox continued.
'They lie, they cheat, they are false prophets, they promise many things, but they are not going to be able to comply,' Fox added.
When the television host pushed back on Fox's assessment, the former Mexican leader refused to back down.
'No, I don't take it back, I insist,' he said. 'They are similar – authoritarian. They impose their wills, they only think that they have the right and the reason.'
'He only won, in the case of Trump, with 25 percent of American citizens' support,' Fox continued, pointing out how Trump lost the popular vote to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and that only about half those eligible to vote did so.
'That doesn't give him enough of a mandate to impose his own ideas over a nation and over the world,' Fox concluded.