Summary

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum mocked Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” by suggesting the U.S. be renamed “Mexican America.”

“It sounds nice, doesn’t it?” she said, pointing to a 17th-century map showing California, Texas, and Arizona once belonging to Mexico before the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). She also noted the Gulf of Mexico has had its name since 1607.

Sheinbaum warned new U.S. tariffs would prompt reciprocal measures.

While advocating for cooperation, she emphasized Mexico’s sovereignty and its historical ties with the U.S.

  • @MehBlah
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    348 minutes ago

    Kinda like west Taiwan.

  • @JeeBaiChow
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    4320 hours ago

    North mexico.

    Maybe his dumb tariffs will encourage more local industry and less reliance on the economic behemoths like us china etc.

    • @[email protected]
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      410 hours ago

      That’s his schtick. Turning politics into a comedy where he’s the star of the show. Idiocracy was a prophecy.

    • @[email protected]
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      19 hours ago

      He is undermining trust and alliances between Western nations. You don’t have to put in much thought to figure out whose interests that serves.

    • @[email protected]
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      517 hours ago

      You think they should let him say and do whatever he wants? Our judicial system did that many times and that’s how we got more of him. I’m glad at least others are willing to stand up to him and call out his bullshit.

        • @[email protected]
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          26 hours ago

          You didn’t - that’s why I asked you so you had an open opportunity to support what you meant…

          • @[email protected]
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            No, you directly questioned me on people letting Trump do and say anything he wants, when I never sais anything like that.

            I don’t know what you want me to expand on. My statement wasn’t a puzzle. I wasn’t debating anything.

    • Flying Squid
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      112 hours ago

      Way back in the 80s, Cheech Marin made a movie where he was a citizen who was accidentally deported. It was a comedy then. It will be reality for a lot of brown citizens soon. And possibly not all that accidentally.

      https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092690/