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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reprimanded President-elect Trump to say he plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico, saying he has a new name for the United States.
“Mexican America. That sounds good,” Sheinbaum said Wednesday in Mexico City during a news conference, Reuters reported.
Sheinbaum cited a 1607 map during the press conference and joined it by the ancient culture of Mexico minister, Jose Alfonso Suarez del Real.
“The fact is that Mexican America has been recognized since the 17th century … as the name of the entire northern part of the (American) continent,” Suarez del Real said, pointing to the map.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum displays a 1661 world map showing the Americas and the Gulf of Mexico in response to U.S. President-elect Trump’s comments about renaming the body of water during a conference in press at the National Palace in Mexico City on Wednesday. (Mexico Presidency/Handout via Reuters)
Sheinbaum’s statement comes after Trump held his own news conference on Tuesday, where he made a series of announcements and previewed his upcoming second administration, including plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico .
“We have a massive deficit with Mexico and we help Mexico a lot. They’re basically run by the cartels, and we can’t let that happen, because Mexico is really in trouble, a lot of trouble. Very dangerous place,” Trump said during the conference in press
President-elect Trump speaks during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“We’re going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a nice ring to it. That covers a lot of ground,” Trump said Tuesday. “The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name. And it’s fitting.”
Gulf of Mexico 1690 (Picturenow Group/Universal Images via Getty Images)
The Gulf of Mexico is a partially enclosed sea bordering states such as Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, as well as Mexico and the northwestern part of Cuba. Trump did not explain how or when he will change the name of the body of water. Instead, he shifted gears to immigration issues in the US under the Biden White House.
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“Mexico must stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country. They can stop them, and we will put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada, because Canada also goes through Canada. And the drugs that are coming through are in record numbers,” Trump said.
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, speaks this Wednesday during a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City. (Reuters/Henry Romero)
Sheinbaum dismissed Trump’s comment that Mexico is essentially “run by cartels,” responding that “the people are in charge” of the nation.
Sheinbaum added during the news conference that he hopes the US and Mexico will have a “good relationship” during Trump’s second administration.
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“I think there it will be a good relationship” he said. “President Trump has his own way of communicating.”
