Pat Buchanan: Trip to Mexico was 'Trump's Best Day'

Conservative pundit Patrick J. Buchanan says Donald Trump's trip to Mexico City to discuss immigration issues with President Enrique Peña Nieto "reassured voters who are leaning toward him that he can be president."

"The Donald was taking a major risk. Yet it was a bold and decisive move, and it paid off in what was the best day of Donald Trump's campaign," Buchanan writes in a column published Friday in The American Conservative.

"Standing beside Nieto, graciously complimenting him and speaking warmly of Mexico and its people, Trump looked like a president. And the Mexican president treated him like one, even as Trump restated the basic elements of his immigration policy, including the border wall."

Buchanan, who served as a senior adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, adds:

"If Donald Trump can continue to show America what he did in Mexico City, that he can be presidential, he may just become president."

Buchanan, a founding editor of The American Conservative, is author of "The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority," published by Crown Forum.

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