Mexico's President Sheinbaum offers sarcastic response to Trump's 'Gulf of America' comment
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.
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.
"It sounds nice, right?" the president remarked, riffing on Trump's declaration that the name "the Gulf of America" has a "beautiful ring to it." (Daniel Augusto/Cuartoscuro)