The Trump Apocalypse Watch is a subjective daily estimate, using a scale of one to four horsemen, of how likely it is that Donald Trump will be elected president, thus triggering an apocalypse in which we all die.
Trump made a surprise trip to Mexico City today to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and the results were … polite? Trump said the pair didn’t talk about his infamous border wall, and he called Mexican Americans “spectacular, hard-working people” while referring to Nieto as a friend. The question is, will this:
- Impress upon undecided voters that Trump can, in fact, be reasonable and diplomatic?
- Alienate hard-line anti-immigrant conservatives who think Trump is selling them out?
- Do a little of both and net out to nothing?
- Not be something anyone anywhere notices at all because it was actually a pretty boring event?
The answer is: I don’t know—no one knows, it’s politics—so let’s wait for next week’s polls. In the meantime, we’ll jack the danger level all the way up to one horseman because Trump is having a mini-surge in Wisconsin.
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