President Trump claimed during an interview Wednesday that some candidates running for office in Mexico are wearing hats that read “Make Mexico Great Again;” however, there are currently no reports of any candidate running for office in Mexico wearing such a hat.
Trump said during an interview with Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs that some candidates in the upcoming Mexican elections were borrowing from his approach during the campaign during their own races.
{mosads}“In fact, they wore a hat — a green hat that says ‘Make Mexico Great Again,’” Trump said. “They call them the Donald Trump of politics. They have a couple of them, actually.”
However, Mexican media and politicians disputed Trump’s claims in the hours afterward.
Mexican newspaper El Universal said in a report Wednesday that “it is not known publicly that something similar is happening in the Mexican campaign.”
Univision anchor Enrique Acevedo also pushed back against the report.
“Not true. The only Make Mexico Great Again hats were made by the Trump campaign so staff could wear them during their visit to Mexico,” he tweeted Wednesday.
And Mexican diplomat Jorge Guajardo tweeted that Trump’s comments were a “big fat lie.”
Then-Trump campaign supporters Rudy Giuliani and Jeff Sessions both sported “Make Mexico Great Again Also” hats during a rally in Arizona last year, a play off of Trump’s popular “Make America Great Again” hats.