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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox gestures while speaking during an interview with AFP at the Fox Center in San Francisco del Rincon, Guanajuato state, Mexico on March 8. | Getty Vicente Fox apologizes to Trump for wall outburst

More than two months after his expletive-laden outburst over Donald Trump's plan for a massive border wall, former Mexican President Vicente Fox is apologizing to Trump and has invited the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to Mexico.

Mexican leaders have insisted that the country’s government will not pay for Trump’s wall, despite his consistent claim that as president he will build a wall along the southern border and have Mexico fund it. Speaking to Fusion’s Jorge Ramos in February, Fox said, “I’m not going to pay for that f-----g wall” — a statement that prompted Trump to call for an apology.

“If I offended you, I’m sorry,” Fox said, referring to Trump in an interview with Breitbart on Wednesday. “But what about the other way around?”

In his speech last June announcing his presidential campaign, Trump said Mexicans were crossing the border, bringing drugs and crime. “They’re rapists,” he said. “And some, I assume, are good people.”

Fox added later on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” “I think it’s very important to invite Donald Trump to come to Mexico and to learn about the real Mexico.”