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Summary

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum mocked Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" by suggesting the U.S. be renamed "Mexican America."

"It sounds nice, doesn’t it?" she said, pointing to a 17th-century map showing California, Texas, and Arizona once belonging to Mexico before the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). She also noted the Gulf of Mexico has had its name since 1607.

Sheinbaum warned new U.S. tariffs would prompt reciprocal measures.

While advocating for cooperation, she emphasized Mexico’s sovereignty and its historical ties with the U.S.

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Kinda like west Taiwan.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

This shit is so childish...except trump thinks it's all real and serious while Mexico is just "¡El burro sabe más que tú!"

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago

North mexico.

Maybe his dumb tariffs will encourage more local industry and less reliance on the economic behemoths like us china etc.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago

Please don’t call South Canada that

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago
[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Where Canada dumps and mexico throws up.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

How about Mexico and Canada meet in the middle?

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 20 hours ago
[-] amon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The border between Greater Mexico and South Canada should be placed along the tornado alley

[-] clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Canada’s shorts

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

You know they won't though

[-] yboutros@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago

Better yet, name Canada North Mexico

[-] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

This is not economically viable concept.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 39 points 1 day ago

So fucking stupid. He's dragging world leaders down into schoolyard arguments.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He is undermining trust and alliances between Western nations. You don't have to put in much thought to figure out whose interests that serves.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago
[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 1 day ago

and oligarchs

That's his schtick. Turning politics into a comedy where he's the star of the show. Idiocracy was a prophecy.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 6 points 19 hours ago

Nah, President Camacho was much smarter and nicer than him.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Fiction has utterly failed to predict how stupid reality has become.

How many stories have we seen where a billionaire ceo becomes president? In fiction, they were always handsome, charming, highly intelligent, so on and so forth. Reality though, oooof.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago

Back to the Future was close with Biff, although he wasn't president...yet.

[-] TechAnon@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

You think they should let him say and do whatever he wants? Our judicial system did that many times and that's how we got more of him. I'm glad at least others are willing to stand up to him and call out his bullshit.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Show me where i said he should do and say whatever he wants.

[-] TechAnon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

You didn't - that's why I asked you so you had an open opportunity to support what you meant...

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

No, you directly questioned me on people letting Trump do and say anything he wants, when I never sais anything like that.

I don't know what you want me to expand on. My statement wasn't a puzzle. I wasn't debating anything.

[-] TechAnon@lemm.ee 1 points 19 hours ago

You don't have to respond at all if you don't want to. I think we need to challenge Trump on things we disagree with and sometimes that will mean going down to his level.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

If Mexico was organized and had leadership like Canada, the Blue States would have two excellent choices to leave the USA. Fix Mexico!!!

[-] tacosplease@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

No we wouldn't because you can't just walk into another country and live there. Look at how much the US loses our minds when people from other countries do that here.

We have to fix our braindead conservative family members, not wait for Mexico to resolve all its issues.

[-] h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Alta Mexico


Baja Mexico

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Maybe Cheech and Chong could give us a Mexican America song before they die.

https://youtu.be/LLqqZmNFa_A

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Way back in the 80s, Cheech Marin made a movie where he was a citizen who was accidentally deported. It was a comedy then. It will be reality for a lot of brown citizens soon. And possibly not all that accidentally.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092690/

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