Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum mocked Donald Trump on Wednesday for his suggestion to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”
Throughout a press convention held in Mexico’s Nationwide Palace, Sheinbaum stood in entrance of a map from 1607 that labeled the US as “Mexican America” and the gulf because the “Gulf of Mexico”—practically 170 years earlier than the US was based in 1776.
“Why don’t we name it Mexican America? It sounds fairly, no?” Sheinbaum mockingly requested.
Giant parts of the US have been originally part of Mexico. On the conclusion of the Mexican-American Battle in 1848, the nation misplaced 55% of its territory, which grew to become California, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, and most of Colorado and Arizona.
Sheinbaum also accused Trump of residing previously, noting, “I feel they advised President (elect) Trump fallacious, they advised him Felipe Calderon continues to be president.”
Calderon was Mexico’s president from 2006 to 2012.
Throughout his Tuesday press convention at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said, “We’re going to be altering the identify of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. What a wonderful identify. And it’s applicable. It’s applicable. And Mexico has to cease permitting tens of millions of individuals to pour into our nation.”
One among Trump’s most loyal supporters, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, mentioned she can be introducing laws to coincide with Trump’s rhetoric.
“I’ve directed my employees to right away start drafting laws to alter the identify of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. That is vital to start funding the altering of maps for all companies inside the federal authorities, just like the FAA and the navy,” she wrote on X.
Even when Greene’s laws handed, it could nonetheless not coerce different nations to comply with alongside—Mexico, for one, has made it clear it received’t be following in Trump’s footsteps.
Trump’s final main conflict with Mexico didn’t notably work out properly for him. Throughout his 2016 presidential marketing campaign, he mentioned he would construct a U.S.-Mexico border wall, for which Mexico would pay. Not solely did Mexico not actually pay for the wall, nevertheless it was by no means even accomplished.
The friction between Trump and Mexico is simply the newest in a sequence of international flashpoints he’s brought on earlier than even being sworn in as president. Trump threatened to make use of “navy motion” to grab management of Greenland and the Panama Canal, whereas additionally antagonizing Canada. And through his first time period, his actions often provoked worldwide condemnation.
Appears like he’s already heading down an identical path.
