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From the New York Post: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum clapped back Wednesday at President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to rename the Gulf of Mexico — saying the US should actually be called “Mexican America.”
Trump, 78, announced Tuesday during a Mar-a-Lago press conference he had ambitions to rebrand the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America.”
In response, Sheinbaum, 62, showed off a 1607 map with the Gulf of Mexico being identified as such and North America labeled as Mexican America.
“Why don’t we call it Mexican America? It sounds nice, no?” asked the Mexican leader, apparently in jest.
Sheinbaum added, “with all due respect,” that Trump was wrong to state that violent drug cartels are running Mexico, rather than “the people.”
Posting a video of her stunt on X, Sheinbaum wrote, “In this map that I present from 1607, North America is called Mexican America, which is the same title that the Constitution of Apatzingán has.”
En este mapa que presento de 1607, América del Norte es llamada América Mexicana, que es el mismo título que tiene la Constitución de Apatzingán. pic.twitter.com/BwtHDxYhdn
— Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) January 9, 2025
During his press conference on Tuesday, Trump had announced, “We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring. That covers a lot of territory, the Gulf of America. What a beautiful name and it’s appropriate.”
THE “GULF OF AMERICA” — WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME! pic.twitter.com/NVks3zgfLr
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 7, 2025
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