Trump’s expansionist desires are angering the United States’ neighbors. The President of Mexico chose to react in a sarcastic tone to the proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico “Gulf of America”.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has mocked US President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico “Gulf of America” by suggesting that North America should then be renamed “Mexican America”.
Ms. Sheinbaum’s comments came Wednesday after Mr. Trump’s news conference, during which he raised the possibility of renaming the body of water that stretches from Florida to Cancun.
He also asked that Canada become an American state and for this he did not rule out using military force or economic coercion to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
At her daily news conference, Sheinbaum stood in front of a colonial-era map of the region (1607) and dryly proposed renaming North America America Mexicana or “Mexican America”, because a founding document dating from 1814 and preceding the Mexican constitution referred to it that way.
“That sounds good, right ?,” she said sarcastically.
Donald Trump, who will take office for a second term on January 20, also said Tuesday that Mexico “must stop allowing millions of people to flood into our country” and that the country was run by drug cartels. drug.
Claudia Sheinbaum strongly denied these comments, declaring: “In Mexico, it is the people who govern.”
the tone has hardened between the Mexican president, the country’s first female head of state, and the American leader elected last November. Particularly after the threats of mass deportations and crippling taxes on Mexico made by Donald Trump/
Caludia Sheinbaum’s predecessor and political mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, managed to work with the Trump administration.
Regarding Mr. Trump’s promise in November to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican imports, Ms. Sheinbaum warned that Mexico would respond with similar measures.
She said any form of tax was “unacceptable and would cause inflation and job losses in the United States and Mexico“.
However, since these comments, the two leaders have spoken by telephone. During her press conference, Sheinbaum stressed that she expected the two countries to maintain close ties in the future.
“I think relations will be good“, she said. “President Trump has his own way of communicating“, she added.
Additional sources • AP