‘América Mexicana’: Mexico’s president responds to Trump with renaming of her own
Claudia Sheinbaum joked about renaming the entire continent in retort to Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ comments
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, has responded to Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America with a counter-proposal to rename North America.
Standing before a global map in her daily press briefing, Sheinbaum proposed dryly that the continent should be known as “América Mexicana”, or “Mexican America”, because an 1814 founding document that preceded Mexico’s constitution referred to it that way.
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