When TRUMP wins...

Great great people. I want to thank the 8000 Mexicans who are refusing to come to the U.S. unless I am president.

When Ipsos asked people around the world in June who they'd pick in the American presidential contest, no country saw a wider gap than Mexico. Mexico preferred Clinton to Trump by an 88-to-1 margin — an 87-point spread.

(The only countries that preferred Trump were China and Russia.)

The next-closest countries were Belgium and Sweden, where Clinton was preferred by 66 points.

There's a correlation between Trump's poll numbers and the Mexican economy: When he does better, the value of the peso has dropped.

I am absolutely not saying Trump will blow up the world. I'm saying I have no idea what he will do. None what-so-ever. That's terrifying.

Then there’s national spokeswoman (and reality TV star) Katrina Pierson, whose pre-Trump days include 2012 tweets asking if 9/11 was “an inside job” and lamenting that both President Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s fathers were born abroad. “Any pure breeds left?” she asked.

This month on CNN, she blamed the death of Army Capt. Humayun Khan (Khizr’s son) on Obama and Clinton: “It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost his life.”

Khan died in 2004, during George W. Bush’s first term. But no matter: In Trump’s surrogate circus, anything goes.

Trump stands to bolster his ever-loosening grip on his campaign’s trademark issue, immigration, ahead of his big speech in Arizona on Wednesday. Peña Nieto, meanwhile, stands to salvage his waning poll numbers – now hovering around 23% according to one recent survey – by looking like he is standing up to Trump. The visit is also a timely distraction from embarrassing reports, which have dominated recent headlines, that he plagiarized his law degree thesis.

This week’s bad press, which includes the sacking of Mexico’s police commissioner following allegations of cartel executions, follows months of looming scandals plaguing his own administration. These include large teacher strikes, allegations of the use of torture on ordinary citizens and most recently reports that the Mexican first lady’s home is owned by a potential government contractor. All of the above have sent Mexican confidence in its president plunging.

The embarrassing thing is that we can actually see Peña Nieto’s logic at work in real time as this disaster unfolds. The president thinks that he will see the bad man, appear stern to the bad man, tell everyone that he was indeed stern to the bad man and then his poll numbers will rise. Easy. There’s only one problem with this plan. Trump may well hijack that narrative, frame the meeting to his advantage and then straight-up lie about the details in Arizona with a straight face.

All of the above have sent Mexican confidence in its president plunging.