Nervous Democratic members will watch from afar next week when President Donald Trump heads to Peru for a gathering of North, Central and South American leaders he has harshly criticized. They know the diplomat in chief will pull few punches, something senior aides confirmed Thursday.

Trump is slated to participate in the Summit of the Americas April 13-14, putting him face-to-face with heads of state for whom he has had tough words and threats in recent days. In short, expect things to be plenty awkward in Lima.

Senior administration officials made clear Thursday he intends to discuss a number of potentially prickly issues with Central and South American leaders. They used the same kind of tough rhetoric on a call previewing the trip, saying he will press them on “economic aggression” in the Western Hemisphere by some of their governments and investors like China, as well as doing more to combat “transnational criminal organizations.”

He also will bring up his priority to install policies to “protect the U.S. homeland,” one senior official said. The official signaled Trump will use the type of nationalist rhetoric that helped him get elected. The president plans to talk about protecting “the U.S. way of life,” the official said. Language like that makes many of America’s allies nervous, and Trump’s critics will hear it as code for worries that immigrants are changing life in the U.S.

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