‘Mexican America’: President of Mexico trolls Trump with vintage map
The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, wasted no time trolling President-elect Donald Trump, posting a vintage map showing that a large portion of what is now the United States of America used to be called "Mexican America." President Sheinbaum delivered her remarks in response to Trump's claim that he will rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America."
President Sheinbaum "used her Wednesday morning news conference to show a world map dating from 1607. The map labeled North America as Mexican America and already identified the Gulf of Mexico as such, 169 years before the United States was founded," The New York Times reports.
“Why don’t we call it Mexican America? It sounds pretty, no?” Dr. Sheinbaum said in Spanish (video below).
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"In response to Mr. Trump’s comment that Mexico was 'essentially run by the cartels,' Ms. Sheinbaum told reporters on Wednesday that, 'with all due respect,' the president-elect was ill-informed," The Times also noted.
Dr. Sheinbaum, a former Mayor of Mexico City, has a PhD in energy engineering. She is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicist who appeared on the BBC's "list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2018."
During her Wednesday press conference, President Sheinbaum also told reporters, "In Mexico, the people rule.”
“And we are going to collaborate and understand each other with the government of President Trump, I am sure of it, defending our sovereignty as a free, independent and sovereign country.”
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According to The Times, she stated that her country is "very interested in stopping the entry of U.S. firearms into Mexico,” and complained about the large number of guns illegally smuggled from the U.S.
The Washington Post's global affairs columnist Ishaan Tharoor, pointing to the Mexican President's comments, noted, "We're seeing some responses to Trump's absurdity."
Watch the video below or at this link.
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