On Wednesday, June 3, 2026, former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador ended his political retreat in Palenque, Chiapas, to deliver a detailed statement on the current Mexico-U.S. bilateral relationship and the recent “onslaught” from the White House.

Using his official X account, López Obrador issued a forceful message echoing the rhetoric and slogans from his time in office. He expressed unconditional support for Mexico City’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, and reflected critically on the current Republican leader in the U.S.

López Obrador denounced the U.S. administration’s actions, framed as efforts to combat migration and “narco-terrorism,” as a politically motivated strategy aimed at the upcoming November U.S. elections. He backed Sheinbaum’s earlier stance, arguing that Washington’s accusations lack genuine concern for addressing drug addiction within its own borders.

Instead, he claimed that certain U.S. officials are systematically working to weaken Morena, the ruling party in Mexico, to empower the right-wing opposition and impose a government that would be “submissive, corrupt, mafioso, and cruel,” ultimately vulnerable to U.S. interests.

In his statement, López Obrador also analyzed the political transformation of former U.S. President Donald Trump, contrasting the current tensions with the pragmatic relationship they maintained while both were in office. He revealed agreements between them, which he says he can prove:

– Trump agreed to exclude Mexican oil from the USMCA (T-MEC) and refrained from imposing unjustified tariffs or sanitary barriers on products like tomatoes, tuna, and cattle.
– Trump consented to freeze and relocate the DEA’s case against General Salvador Cienfuegos to Mexico after a direct request from the Mexican government, arguing that the evidence was fabricated as political retaliation.

López Obrador recalled warning Trump about the mistake of labeling criminal groups as “narco-terrorists,” a warning initially heeded but which has since led to what he calls a “license to kidnap, hunt, and extrajudicially execute” beyond U.S. borders.

This reemergence of López Obrador’s voice comes on the same day that news broke of U.S. investigations into two Mexican governors, highlighting the complex and tense dynamics shaping Mexico-U.S. relations ahead of critical elections on both sides of the border.