Before his resounding election victory two years ago, AMLO leveled harsh denunciations against Trump and his administration that resulted in a book, ‘Oye, Trump’ (‘Listen, Trump’). He fiercely opposed [Mr. Trump’s] border wall and vowed to counter all of Trump’s anti-Mexico tweets. On that score, AMLO positioned himself as a leftist, setting up what seemed to be an inevitable clash with Trump. But right after his win, AMLO sang a radically different tune, starting with an over-the-top friendly letter to Trump that signaled a notably accommodationist stance towards the US administration, a move not exactly out of the leftist playbook.