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Mexico’s president took a swipe at Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying that america ought to be known as “Mexican America,” after Trump’s vow to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.”

At her common morning press convention, Claudia Sheinbaum displayed a Seventeenth-century world map displaying North America as “Mexican America.”

Stating that the Gulf of Mexico was the identify acknowledged by the United Nations, she turned the tables on Trump, saying: “Why do not we name it (america) Mexican America?”

“It sounds good, would not it?”

“He talked about identify, we too are speaking concerning the identify,” she stated, whereas assuring that she anticipated to have “good relations” with the incoming US president.

Trump, who will likely be sworn in for a second time period on January 20, stated Tuesday he deliberate to rename the Gulf of Mexico “the Gulf of America, which has an attractive ring.”

“It is applicable. And Mexico has to cease permitting hundreds of thousands of individuals to pour into our nation,” he stated.

He additionally claimed that Mexico was run by drug cartels, to which Sheinbaum responded that “in Mexico, the individuals rule.”

Within the run-up to his return to workplace, Trump has repeatedly lashed out at Mexico, threatening to impose stiff tariffs on imports from one of many United States’ largest buying and selling companions except it halted the movement of unlawful migrants and medicines throughout the border.

He has additionally revived a menace from his first time period to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist teams.

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