Mexico’s president trolls Trump, suggests US be renamed ‘Mexican America’

Mexico’s president trolls Trump, suggests US be renamed ‘Mexican America’

[South China Morning Post] - 01/8/2025

Claudia Sheinbaum was responding to the US president-elect’s proposal to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America instead.



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