President Donald Trump on Monday called the press “loco” — Spanish for “crazy” — and then defended his use of the word by saying the U.S. had made a trade deal with Mexico. Speaking at the White House about the recent deal with Canada and Mexico to salvage NAFTA, the president responded to a question from NBC’s Peter Alexander regarding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Trump said the media has mistreated Kavanaugh, who has been publicly accused of sexual misconduct by three women. “They’re loco,” he said of the media. “I use that word because of that fact that we made a trade deal with Mexico.”Trump has long fostered a fraught relationship with the U.S.’s southern neighbor.

Source: Huffington Post October 01, 2018 17:37 UTC