Carlos Slim is a “great guy,” says Donald J. Trump.
Hey, wait! We all thought he was a tool of the Democratic Party. Isn’t that what the president-elect said of the Mexican gazillionaire? Didn’t he disparage Slim because of made-up suspicions about the U.S. presidential election being “rigged” against Trump?
Not so. Apparently.
Trump and Slim had dinner the other night at Trump’s Florida resort. They had a good time. Trump and Slim now are BFFs.
So help me, my head is spinning. I cannot even begin to keep up with the way Trump turns enemies into friends. How he manages to take back all those angry and reprehensible things he says about others.
For his part, Slim had been critical of Trump’s policies toward Mexico, such as his plan to build that wall across the nations’ border. Now he says Trump’s presidency will mean success for Mexico.
Politics has this way of making people switch positions on a dime. Which view are we supposed to believe?