Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dove into President-elect Trump’s chatter of geopolitical rearrangement on Wednesday, proposing a name change for North America in response to Trump’s musings over the Gulf of Mexico.

In a wide-ranging press conference on Tuesday, Trump expounded on his aspirations of U.S. territorial expansion to Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal, and proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”

Sheinbaum, in her daily morning press conference, said the body of water shared by Cuba, Mexico and the United States is internationally recognized as the Gulf of Mexico, adding that North America was historically marked on maps as Mexican America.

“I mean obviously, ‘Gulf of Mexico,’ the name is recognized by the United Nations, an organism of the United Nations. But next, why don’t we call it ‘Mexican America?’ It sounds nice, doesn’t it?” Sheinbaum said,........

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