Mexico President's Deadpan Troll Of Donald Trump's Renaming Idea Goes Viral
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Claudia Sheinbaum used a historical map to make her point.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum turned the tables on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s talk about renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”
In what appeared to be a deadpan joke, Sheinbaum suggested the United States be known as “Mexican America” during a press briefing on Wednesday.
“It would be pretty, no?” she asked, using a a centuries-old map showing then-Mexico-controlled areas of the current-day U.S. ― and its name “Mexican America” ― to make her point.
The name of the Gulf of Mexico is recognized by the United Nations and has been in place for hundreds of years, she also noted.
Watch the video, that went viral on social media, here:
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