Mexico’s president and the art of keeping a ‘cool head’ with Trump

CNN
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The phrase “El que se enoja, pierde,” (“he who gets angry, loses”) is a popular refrain in Mexico.

It’s an adage Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum may have had in mind the past few weeks, as she successfully maneuvered around several standoffs with the United States.

The latest was on Monday when US President Donald Trump was due to announce tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the US, impacting her country among others.

Speaking to reporters at her daily morning briefing, she repeated what has become her mantra for the Trump administration: “As I said before, (we have to keep a) cool head on this,” she…