Former Mexican President Vicente Fox took more shots at Donald Trump Friday, and said the Republican presidential front-runner is “absolutely” a racist who has an “attitude about the supreme white race.”
“Every word that he says goes in that direction,” Fox told Al Jazeera English’s “UpFront,” according to an interview transcript.
Fox, who served as Mexico’s president from 2000 to 2006, said Trump’s “discriminatory speech is creating violence within the same United States.” Trump believes in a “supreme white race, and all brown [people] and Afro-Americans and everybody else is insignificant to him,” Fox added.
Fox also called Trump a “false prophet,” and predicted he would bring “that great nation to the desert, to hunger.”
Fox has become a regular critic of Trump. Last month, Fox said Mexico is “not going to pay for that f—king wall” that Trump has proposed as an addition to the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump has since demanded Fox apologize.
The former president also took aim at Trump’s claims of self-made wealth, and called him a “janitor” because of the money he received from his father, money Trump calls a “small loan.”
Trump’s knowledge of the economy is “very poor,” Fox remarked, alluding to his four business bankruptcies. Fox also blasted Trump’s trade stance.
“He is not understanding that by trading, we both win,” Fox said. “He is not understanding that Mexico buys to the United States every year millions of U.S. dollars. This means millions of jobs for U.S. citizens,” he said.
The full interview is slated to air later Friday.
