𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗜𝗡𝗕𝗔𝗨𝗠'𝗦 𝗦𝗨𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧-𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗚𝗨𝗟𝗙 𝗢𝗙 𝗠𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗖𝗢

 

President Claudia Sheinbaum

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum responded sarcastically on Wednesday to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Standing before a global map in her daily press briefing, Sheinbaum proposed dryly that North America should be renamed “América Mexicana,” or “Mexican America,” because a founding document dating from 1814 that preceded Mexico’s constitution referred to it that way.

“That sounds nice, no?” she added with a sarcastic tone. She also noted that the Gulf of Mexico had been named that way since 1607.