But for Andrés Manuel López Obrador, making his first foreign trip as Mexico’s President, an entire nation was watching.
How would López Obrador, or AMLO as he is popularly known, handle the US President who had made insulting Mexicans a staple of his rise to political power?
Would he use the moment to confront Trump’s past racist comments? Would he take the President to task on his derision of migrants? Would he remind Trump that Mexico hasn’t actually paid for his promised border wall?
As someone who once explicitly called Trump a racist, you might expect López Obrador to do just…
