Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has just rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's offer of military assistance. 

This was revealed by the Wall Street Journal in a report that it released on Friday.

It appears that Trump made the offer to help the Mexican government to get Mexican cartels under control.

Sheinbaum, however, turned the president down.

The details

On Friday, the Journal reported:

President Trump is pressuring Mexico to allow deeper U.S. military involvement in the fight against drug cartels, people familiar with the discussions said, making security a sticking point for neighbors that are also negotiating over trade and immigration.

The outlet goes on to describe a tense 45-minute telephone call that Trump had with Sheinbaum in mid-April.

It reports:

Tension rose toward the end of a 45-minute telephone conversation with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on April 16 when Trump pushed to have U.S. armed forces take a leading role in battling Mexican drug gangs that produce and smuggle fentanyl to the U.S., the people said. Sheinbaum told Trump her administration would cooperate on matters such as intelligence sharing but not accept a direct military presence, the people added.

It would appear that Trump may have doubts about the Mexican government's ability to get the job done.

In fact, just after that April 16 phone call, Trump publicly said, "Mexico is very, very afraid of the cartels. We want to help her. We want to help Mexico, because you can’t run a country like that. You just can’t.”

Sheinbaum goes public

On Saturday, the day after the Journal's report was released, Sheinbaum went public, explaining why it is that she turned down Trump's offer of U.S. military assistance.

"I told him, 'No, President Trump, our territory is inviolable, our sovereignty is inviolable, our sovereignty is not for sale,'" she said.

She added, "We will never accept the presence of the United States Army in our territory."

There has been much back-and-forth between Trump and Sheinbaum since Trump entered the White House in January 2025. One of the president's biggest objectives, of course, is to get the U.S.-Mexico border under control, and he has already made tremendous progress on this promise.

On the U.S. side, Trump has been using the U.S. military alongside the CBP, and, on the Mexico side, Trump has managed to get Sheinbaum to put troops from her own country on the border. This proved to be extremely successful in reigning in illegal immigration.