Mexico President Sheinbaum claps back at Trump, suggests America Mexicana as new U.S. name
President Claudia Sheinbaum proposed using the 17th-century name in response to President-elect Donald Trump's comment he'd try to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Wednesday that the United States revert to a historic name for the territory, America Mexicana, in a clapback at President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.
Trump had said during a news conference on Tuesday that he was seeking to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America.
With a 1607 map displayed onstage, Sheinbaum swept her hand across a territory that is now the U.S., Mexico and part of Canada.
"Why don't we call it America Mexicana. It sounds pretty, no? Isn't that true?" a smiling Sheinbaum said at the start of her Wednesday news conference.
She reiterated what Jose Alfonso Suarez del Real, a politician and former cultural secretary, said before she took the microphone.
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