Mexican President Trolls Trump, Suggests US Renamed ‘Mexican America’

Mexico’s president took a swipe at Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying that the United States should be called “Mexican America”, after Trump’s vow to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America”.

At her regular morning press conference, Claudia Sheinbaum displayed a 17th-century world map showing North America as “Mexican America”.

Pointing out that the Gulf of Mexico was the name recognized by the United Nations, she turned the tables on Trump, saying: “Why don’t we call it (the United States) Mexican America”?

“It sounds nice, doesn’t it”?

“He talked about name, we too are talking about the name”, she said, while assuring that she expected to have “good relations” with the incoming US president.

Trump, who will serve a second term starting on January 20, announced on Tuesday that he intended to rename the Gulf of Mexico “the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring.”

“It’s appropriate. And Mexico must stop allowing the entry of millions of people, he said.

He also claimed that Mexico was run by drug cartels, to which Sheinbaum responded that “in Mexico, the people rule”.

Trump has repeatedly criticized Mexico in the run-up to his election as president, threatening to impose severe tariffs on imports from one of the biggest trading partners of the United States unless it stops the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs across the border.

Source: Channels TV