Mexican president suggests renaming the United States after Trump’s Gulf of America threat

NY Post ^ | 1/08/25 | Diana Glebova

[Libloather]

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum clapped back Wednesday at President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to rename the Gulf of Mexico — saying the US should actually be called “Mexican America.”

Trump, 78, announced Tuesday during a Mar-a-Lago press conference he had ambitions to rebrand the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America.”

In response, Sheinbaum, 62, showed off a 1607 map with the Gulf of Mexico being identified as such and North America labeled as Mexican America.

“Why don’t we call it Mexican America? It sounds nice, no?” asked the Mexican leader, apparently in jest.

Sheinbaum added, “with all due respect,” that Trump was wrong to state that violent drug cartels are running Mexico, rather than “the people.”

The Gulf of Mexico has been known as such for centuries, but Trump could go about trying to change how it would be labeled in the US.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has already proposed a bill that would federally fund the required changes to maps.

The renaming would also cause a headache for the International Hydrographic Organization, which tries to ensure uniformity in how bodies of water are labeled.

[Publius]

She may be related to the O’Sheinbaums of County Donegal.

[RckyRaCoCo]

She really wanted to call it “garbage dump”...but that would be too obvious.

[chuckb87]

She’s an idiot.

[nhbob1]

Too bad that commie witch is presiding g over a failed narcoterrorist state. No one wants to be like you moron. Half your population has fled because of the $hithole your country has become

[03A3]

♪ Mexican Americans go to night school, and take Spanish and get a B. ♫

[vivenne]

Rename the Gulf AMEX.

[piasa]

It is just a squirrel thrown out there to draw publicity away from the stupid court case against Trump.

[rlmorel]

TRUMP. LIVING RENT-FREE IN THEIR HEADS SINCE 2016.

[FreeReign]

Good for Sheinbaum! Trolling is no fun unless you can troll right back.

Her clap back was lame.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

“Claudia Sheinbaum” sounds like some liberal twit on the Upper West Side who contributes to the New York Review of Books or The Atlantic. She's not even a real Mexican.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Was that Cheech and Chong?

[AmericanMermaid]

Very interesting, thank you, LL! I only knew the name from Lucy Ricardo (her maiden name).

[Paladin2]

Mexico needs to be renamed as “The Southern Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy”.

[HIDEK6]

Mexican American just doesn’t have that “ring” to it.

[shotgun]

FU BIOTCH!

[HIDEK6]

Mexican America.

[shotgun]

“Mexican Americans like to go out with white girls named Debbie...” Cheech & Chong

[4Runner]

Amerexico.

[wardamneagle]

Zip it……

[Rurudyne]

When making that reference it is an especially unfortunate typo / misspelling....