Mexico’s president attacked Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying the United States ought to be referred to as “Mexican America,” after Trump’s promise to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.”
At her regular morning press convention, Claudia Sheinbaum held up a Seventeenth-century world map exhibiting North America as “Mexican America.”
Pointing out that the Gulf of Mexico was the title acknowledged by the United Nations, he turned the tables on Trump, saying, “Why do not we name it (the United States) Mexican America?”
“Sounds good, proper?”
“He spoke in names, we converse in names too,” he stated, assuring that he expects to have “good relations” with the subsequent president of the United States.
Trump, who might be sworn in for a second time period on Jan. 20, stated Tuesday that he plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico “the Gulf of America, which has a fantastic ring.”
“It’s acceptable. And Mexico must cease permitting thousands and thousands of individuals to pour into our nation,” he stated.
He additionally acknowledged that Mexico is run by drug cartels, to which Sheinbaum responded that “in Mexico, the individuals rule.”
In the run-up to his return to workplace, Trump repeatedly lashed out at Mexico, threatening to impose stiff tariffs on imports from one of many United States’ largest buying and selling companions until it stopped the circulation of unlawful migrants and medicines by means of the confine.
He additionally revived his first time period’s menace to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist teams.
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