After Venezuela, President Trump is now turning his attention to Mexico.
Yesterday, President Trump warned Mexican leadership to “get their act together” and stop the threat of cartels at the United State’s southern border.
Watch this:
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump WARNS cartel-controlled Mexican President Sheinbaum
“She’s scared of the cartels.”
“We’re gonna have to do something. WE’D LOVE Mexico to do it!”
Trump is playing NO games!
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 5, 2026
But now, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum seems to be shrugging off President Trump’s warning.
While delivering remarks today, Sheinbaum confirmed that President Trump has repeatedly brought up the idea of sending the U.S. military to help stop the dangerous drug cartels in her country.
However, while Sheinbaum admits that the cartels are a huge problem, she is refusing President Trump’s offer for military assistance.
Watch what Sheinbaum had to say here:
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Trump Pushes Action on Cartels as Mexico’s President Rejects U.S. Military Role
MEXICO CITY — Former U.S. President Donald Trump has once again underscored the seriousness of the cartel threat after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that he repeatedly raised the idea… pic.twitter.com/jPOZwj1Lnf
— Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) January 5, 2026
Trump Pushes Action on Cartels as Mexico’s President Rejects U.S. Military Role
MEXICO CITY — U.S. President Donald Trump has once again underscored the seriousness of the cartel threat after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that he repeatedly raised the idea of U.S. military involvement to combat drug cartels operating inside Mexico.
ADVERTISEMENTSpeaking publicly, Sheinbaum acknowledged that Trump brought up the proposal during several direct conversations, emphasizing the growing danger posed by cartel violence. While she firmly rejected the idea on sovereignty grounds, her comments effectively confirmed that Trump was actively pushing for decisive action against criminal organizations destabilizing the region.
“We have said no, very firmly,” Sheinbaum said, citing Mexico’s opposition to foreign military intervention. She added that while cooperation is acceptable, military involvement is not something her government will allow.
Notably, Sheinbaum openly admitted that cartels remain a real and serious threat — a point Trump has consistently highlighted for years. Her remarks reinforce Trump’s long-standing argument that the cartel problem is not hypothetical, but urgent and cross-border in nature, affecting both Mexico and the United States.
Trump’s Position Clarified
Trump has repeatedly argued that drug cartels function more like transnational criminal armies than traditional gangs, and that treating them as such is necessary to protect American lives from fentanyl trafficking, human smuggling, and organized violence. His push for stronger measures, supporters say, reflects urgency rather than aggression.
While Mexico continues to reject military assistance, Sheinbaum’s own statements confirm that Trump pressed the issue seriously — and that the danger he warned about is real, ongoing, and unresolved.
The divide highlights a central contrast: Trump calling for forceful solutions to dismantle cartel power, and Mexico insisting on handling the crisis internally, despite acknowledging the scale of the threat.
While delivering remarks today, President Sheinbaum also directly condemned President Trump and the U.S. military’s actions in Venezuela.
Fox News has more on what she said:
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday condemned what she described as U.S. intervention in Venezuela and rejected the idea of American troops entering Mexico, reaffirming her government’s commitment to national sovereignty.
“We categorically reject intervention in the internal affairs of other countries,” Sheinbaum said at a press conference in Mexico City, according to an official transcript of the speech released by her office.
“The history of Latin America is clear and forceful, the intervention has never brought democracy, it has never generated well-being or lasting stability. Only people can build their own future, decide their path, exercise sovereignty over their natural resources and freely define their form of government,” she said…
Sheinbaum said her country is cooperating with the United States to help fight against drug trafficking, organized crime and the flow of fentanyl.
“I don’t believe in an invasion. I don’t even think it’s something they’re taking very seriously,” Sheinbaum told reporters in Spanish when asked about a potential U.S. intervention, according to Reuters’ translation of her remarks.
Let’s see how this works out for her…
We already saw how ignoring President Trump worked out for Maduro.
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