Donald Trump's invective against Mexico and promise to build a southern border wall are among the two most familiar aspects of his presidential campaign.
His commitment seemed so deep that Trump said that he used to love Oreo cookies, but when Nabisco announced investment in a plant in Mexico, the billionaire swore off eating them ever again. He even led a chant of "No More Oreo" at one of his rallies.
But his supposed loathing for Mexico is belied by his significant financial investment there, a new report from videographer Ami Horowitz shows.
"While he may not like Nabisco sending jobs to Mexico, he does seem to love creating jobs in foreign countries," Horowitz says. "Maybe it's his weird way of gaining foreign policy experience. I mean, he makes stuff everywhere. He's the U.N. of manufacturing! Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, India, Peru, the Philippines."
But, the narrator adds, do people know he makes products in Mexico? The same country he's denounced for sending rapists, drugs and crime across the southern border and into the United States? Mexicans must hate Trump, right?
Not necessarily.
"We are so happy that this jerk came here to give us his dollars," one man tells Horowitz in Spanish. "It's favorable for foreign investment to come to our country."
"It is good that foreigners come to our country to invest," another man says.
Trump particularly has invested in producing his brand name's suits there, and Biodiesel representative Luiz Sarabia Reynaud estimates 8o to 90 percent of the jobs in Puebla, Mexico, are produced by foreign investment.
"Trump has many industries here in Puebla, so a for a reason I don't understand, his political position about hating Mexico, stating that all Mexicans are corrupt and criminals ... I don't know, because he has many investments here in Mexico," Reynaud said.
While Trump manufacturing partner Peerless Clothes was secretive about which factories Trump used in Mexico to make his clothes, local Mexicans expressed gratitude for foreign investors.