Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said he told Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE that Mexico would not pay for the Republican nominee's proposed border wall, despite what Trump told the press after their meeting.

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"At the start of the conversation with Donald Trump I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall," he wrote on Twitter. "From there, the conversation addressed other subjects and developed in a respectful manner."

His spokesman echoed Peña in a comment to Reuters.

"What the president said is that Mexico, as he has said on several occasions ... will not pay for that wall," Peña spokesman Eduardo Sanchez told Reuters

During a joint press conference following their surprise meeting in Mexico City Wednesday, Trump told reporters they had discussed the wall but not how it would be funded.

"We did discuss the wall, we didn't discuss payment of the wall, that will be for a later date. This was a preliminary meeting, I think it was an excellent meeting" Trump said