{"id":4604,"date":"2025-01-08T18:49:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gulf-of-america-more-like-america-mexicana-mexican-president-says\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:49:18","slug":"gulf-of-america-more-like-america-mexicana-mexican-president-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gulf-of-america-more-like-america-mexicana-mexican-president-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf of America? More like \u2018America Mexicana,\u2019 Mexican president says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum hit back on President-elect Donald Trump saying the Gulf of Mexico should be re-named the \u201cGulf of America\u201d \u2014 and she brought the receipts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, the Gulf of Mexico is a name recognized by the United Nations,\u201d Sheinbaum said in Spanish Wednesday during her daily press briefing, dismissing Trump\u2019s remark.<\/p>\n<p>Then she gestured to a historic map showing control of North American territories, on which parts of the contemporary United States were emblazoned with the name \u201cAmerica Mexicana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy don\u2019t we call it Mexican America?\u201d she asked sarcastically in Spanish. \u201cIt sounds nice, no?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said during a wide-ranging press conference at Mar-a-lago Tuesday he would rename the Gulf of Mexico after the U.S. because \u201cit\u2019s appropriate.\u201d The \u201cGulf of America,\u201d he said, \u201chas a beautiful ring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I know I will be asked, I think that yesterday, President Trump was misinformed, with all due respect to President Trump. Because I believe they informed him that in Mexico, Felipe Calder\u00f3n was still governing, and Garc\u00eda Luna,\u201d Sheinbaum quipped, referring to the former Mexican president and his Secretary of Public Security, respectively, both of whom stepped down in 2012. Luna was sentenced last year to more than 38 years in U.S. prison for taking bribes from the Sinaloa drug cartel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut no. In Mexico, the people govern,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Trump\u2019s transition did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The humorous exchange could forecast the relationship between Trump and Sheinbaum as Trump promises to enact steep tariffs on her country and build a wall on their shared border.<\/p>\n<p><i>Carmen Paun contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum hit back on President-elect Donald Trump saying the Gulf of Mexico should be re-named the \u201cGulf of America\u201d \u2014 and she brought the receipts. \u201cObviously, the Gulf of Mexico is a name recognized by the United Nations,\u201d Sheinbaum said in Spanish Wednesday during her daily press briefing, dismissing Trump\u2019s remark. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}