{"id":101342,"date":"2026-09-05T04:42:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-mexico-has-nothing-that-we-have-to-have-they-do-have-hot-tamales\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T04:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:42:03","slug":"trump-mexico-has-nothing-that-we-have-to-have-they-do-have-hot-tamales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-mexico-has-nothing-that-we-have-to-have-they-do-have-hot-tamales\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Mexico Has Nothing That We Have To Have; They Do Have Hot Tamales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/09\/04\/trump_threatens_to_end_trade_with_canada_and_mexico_wed_save_billions.html\">threatened to cut off trade with Mexico and Canada at an Oval Office media availability on Friday<\/a>.  &#8220;We lose with Mexico $  195 billion a year,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;If I don&#8217;t trade with Mexico, they have nothing that we have to have. I mean, hot tamales, tomatoes, a couple of things.&#8221;  &#8220;But basically, they have nothing that we need,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;We have oil. We have everything. I don&#8217;t want to do that because we get along very well with the President. We like the President, respect her a lot. But if we didn&#8217;t want to trade with Mexico, if we didn&#8217;t want to trade with Canada, we&#8217;d save from $  60 to $  90 billion a year just by not trading with Canada.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/09\/04\/trump_mexico_has_nothing_that_we_have_to_have_they_do_have_hot_tamales.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump threatened to cut off trade with Mexico and Canada at an Oval Office media availability on Friday. &#8220;We lose with Mexico $ 195 billion a year,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;If I don&#8217;t trade with Mexico, they have nothing that we have to have. I mean, hot tamales, tomatoes, a couple of things.&#8221; &#8220;But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9813,2304,30531,5395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}