Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested on Wednesday that the United States be renamed after President-elect Donald Trump proposed changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”
Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first female president, made the comments while standing in front of a 17th-century world map during a press conference in the nation’s capital of Mexico City.
Pointing her hand across a territory that is now the United States, Mexico, and part of Canada, Sheinbaum proposed North America be renamed “América Mexicana,” which translates to “Mexican America.”
She said a founding document dating from 1814 that preceded Mexico’s constitution referred to it that way….