Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday reprehended many remarks that President- choose Donald Trump made regarding Mexico at an interview a day previously.
Trump on Tuesday asked for the Gulf of Mexico to have its name altered to the “Gulf of America.”
In reaction, Sheinbaum on Wednesday sardonically recommended the United States be called “Mexican America.”
“It sounds nice, doesn’t it?” Sheinbaum claimed as she aimed at a 17th century globe map ofNorth America Prior to the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848, the regions of what are currently the US states of California, Texas and Arizona were different fromMexico
“He talked about name, we are talking about the name,” Sheinbaum claimed. She kept in mind the Gulf of Mexico has actually had its name because 1607.
Trump likewise claimed on Tuesday that Mexico was “run by cartels.”
Sheinbaum likewise fired back at this and claimed “in Mexico, the people are in charge.”
“We are addressing the security problem,” Sheinbaum claimed.
wd/ab (Reuters, AP, AFP)
