US ambassador wins Sheinbaum’s praise: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum smiled broadly arsenic she entered the Treasury Hall of the National Palace connected Tuesday morning, seemingly inactive connected a precocious from her palmy telephone with U.S. President Donald Trump.

After her speech with Trump connected Monday, Sheinbaum said that the anticipation of U.S. subject enactment successful Mexico could beryllium ruled out, adjacent though the U.S. president said past Thursday that the United States was going to commencement hitting cartels connected land.

At her greeting property league connected Tuesday, she acknowledged the relation the United States’ ambassador to Mexico played successful ensuring the telephone was a success.

Among different issues, Sheinbaum spoke astir the media’s absorption to her speech with Trump, the latest of galore telephone discussions she has had with her U.S. counterpart.

Sheinbaum expresses appreciation for US ambassador 

A newsman asked the president her sentiment astir the connection U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ron Johnson posted to societal media aft Monday’s telephone betwixt Sheinbaum and Trump.

On X, Johnson wrote: “Glad to person helped facilitate today’s productive telephone betwixt @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and President @ClaudiaShein. After a twelvemonth of the astir cooperative and mutually beneficial U.S.-Mexico narration successful decades, there’s inactive overmuch to beryllium done but unneurotic we tin physique a brighter aboriginal for our citizens.”

Glad to person helped facilitate today’s productive telephone betwixt @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and President @ClaudiaShein. After a twelvemonth of the astir cooperative and mutually beneficial 🇺🇸🇲🇽 narration successful decades, there’s inactive overmuch to beryllium done but unneurotic we tin physique a brighter…

— Embajador Ronald Johnson (@USAmbMex) January 13, 2026

Although her authorities has assorted differences with the Trump administration, Sheinbaum spoke successful glowing presumption astir the U.S. ambassador, who began his tenure past May.

“When we’ve asked for enactment from the ambassador for dealings with the U.S. government, helium has ever helped us,” she said.

“… Obviously, helium represents the authorities of the United States here, and we person a adjacent narration with them,” Sheinbaum said.

She subsequently thanked Johnson for the enactment helium has provided to her government.

Sheinbaum said that Mexican officials spoke to the ambassador anterior to Monday’s telephone with Trump “to explicate what we intended to discuss” with the U.S. president.

“He was a facilitator to marque definite the telephone went well,” she said.

Sheinbaum said connected Monday that she and different officials besides spoke to Johnson aft the telephone with Trump.

Sheinbaum discusses media sum of her telephone with Trump 

A newsman asked the president astir authorities opponents and critics who she said “use astir immoderate pretext to beforehand [foreign] interference and interventionism successful our country.”

Sheinbaum’s contiguous effect was to accidental that it was worthy taking a look astatine today’s newspapers. She asserted that “those that disagree with us” — i.e., the authorities — “didn’t cognize what to say” astir her call, fixed its success.

“They hoped determination would beryllium a occupation successful bid to say, ‘Look, the president doesn’t person the capacity. The United States has to intervene.”

While galore Mexican newspapers ran stories astir Sheinbaum’s telephone with Trump connected the beforehand leafage of their Tuesday people editions, the insubstantial astir often criticized by the national government, Reforma, did not.

On Monday, Sheinbaum said that “the absorption successful Mexico” — of which she considers Reforma and immoderate different newspapers to beryllium a portion — “has been seeking” to cultivate “a atrocious representation of the Mexican authorities successful the United States.”

She said that “this full idea” that the Mexican authorities “protects organized crime” and is led by a “narco-president” comes from a “campaign” created by opponents of her administration.

“What are they seeking? What would they like? The involution of the United States successful Mexico, that’s the truth,” Sheinbaum said.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])