Former Mexican President Vicente Fox argued Friday that President-elect Trump has the support of just 25 percent of American voters.
“Only 50 percent of American people went to the ballots to vote, and out of that he got only 50 percent,” Fox said to MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson. “At the very end his constituency, his support, and his legitimacy is coming from 25 percent of the people.”
He then went on to talk about the 75 percent that, according to Fox, did not believe in doing things the way that Trump wants to do things.
“They think we should have another way of doing the same things,” he said. “For instance, instead of a wall, go to Congress, present an integrated bill in relation to migration that we all would accept and that would be wise, would be intelligent and it would be the way to go.”
The former Mexican president is known for being a Trump critic. In an interview with CNN in September, Fox said that Trump was “absolutely crazy.”
During the same CNN interview, Fox discussed the idea of Mexico paying for the wall, an idea that Trump told his supporters during the campaign, saying it that Mexico would not pay for that “f—-ing wall.”
When questioned about the wall again, Fox spoke of the contradicting messages that Trump has given, and said Trump tends to bring it up in front of crowds at his rallies.
“This is the case of the demagogues, when they are in front of their own people, that elected him, that are the people that were there yesterday, they get excited,” he said. “They just again promise, again say things that a president, a formal president, should not say.”
Fox condemned Trump for acting this way, saying that he should focus on doing what is best for the country not what his supporters want.
“He’s not there to please everybody, he’s there to make America great, he’s there to make a solid U.S. economy, he’s there to take the best decisions,” Fox said.
Fox spoke about the Carrier deal announced by Trump on Thursday, where the air-conditioner company agreed to keep a thousand jobs in Indiana instead of moving them to Mexico, saying that this deal would cause Trump to have to give tax incentives to more companies which he might not be able to afford.
“I don’t know how much money he has in his pocket, but if he goes distributing $7 million to convince everybody to follow his position he’s going to have to raise a lot of money or use a lot of taxpayers’ money to comply with, because everybody now is going to be requesting the same amount,” he said.
Fox also said that the deal will cause Carrier to go broke because they are going to lose their competitive advantage.
“If they don’t build the structure of competitiveness in their own products and corporation, they are going to go broke,” he concluded.
