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donald trump has wasted little time delivering on his signature campaign promises. already, he's ordered the building of "that wall" along the southern boder. the us congress will fund it, but ultimately, mr trump says, mexico will pay. my guest today is the former mexican president vicente fox, whose expletive—filled twitter responses to donald trump have caused a storm on social media. can mexico afford to tango with donald trump? vicente fox in mexico, welcome to hardtalk what a pleasure. stephen, what a pleasure. hello, europe. hello london. hello, britain. well, hello to you. here is an opening question, how badly does mexico need a good working relationship with any us president? i think a good relationship is always important and is strategic for any nation and any economy when you are dealing with the most

powerful, the largest economic, market in the world. so, it is important. very important. but sometimes you cannot take your own decisions. all of a sudden appears donald trump. he is disrupting everything, and not for the better, but for the worse, with europe, with mexico, with latin america, with the muslim world, with china. he's willing to fight with everybody. he will never win against the world. yeah, but he's only been in office for two weeks. and you appear to have taken the decision, in fact, you had taken the decision many months ago, when he was still on the campaign trail, to antagonise him and take him on as much as you can. and in so far as you are an extraordinarily powerful voice

in mexico, a former president, do you think that was wise? well, we have three issues that have to do with mexico and the united states‘ relationship. start with the wall. he can build as many walls as he wants, he can enclose that little nation behind four walls because of fear and because of his crazy ideas, but what he will never ever attain is mexico paying for the wall. that's a different thing. that has to do with sovereignty, that has to do with dignity, that has to do with pride. so, president enrique pena has stated very clearly, wall that you want to build."