Donald Trump’s campaign manager said her candidate will be “presidential” during his visit to Mexico City on Wednesday.
“It’s a decisive presidential move. He wants to establish a conversation with a neighboring country, a leader. And also to discuss the common problems and challenges that our country is facing,” Kellyanne Conway said during an interview with NBC’s “Today.”
When asked if Trump will use the same “diplomatic language” Conway used instead of his normal blunt language when in Mexico, she said people will “see a presidential Donald Trump at the meeting in Mexico.”
One of those ways of being presidential, Conway noted, was Trump’s and running mate Mike Pence’s visit to flood-ravaged Louisiana this month.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has invited both Trump and Clinton, who has not yet accepted.
“The president in Mexico invites us, we accept his invitation,” Conway said, adding, “I think they’ll have a productive conversation … about illegal immigration, but also trade policy and drugs.”
Trump is set to give a major speech on immigration policy in Arizona on Wednesday. Conway said her candidate will clarify his positions, including sticking to his call to deport the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.
“You will not see a reversal,” Conway said. “If you look at his speech at the convention, which is when I think, when you’re accepting the Republican nomination, you’re laying out your vision as a would-be president. If you look at that speech, he does not talk about a deportation force there, but he makes very clear that he hasn’t changed his position in terms of enforcing law. Do you know what might happen if we actually enforce the immigration laws? I don’t because we never bother to do so. There are immigration agencies. We have ICE obviously. We have law enforcement. We have many people that should be consulted and part of the process, part of the spectrum of responsible actors here. That’s not happening in this administration. Mrs. Clinton has made clear she would not follow that either, so we’re going to be the ones to enforce the law.”
