Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Sept. 7 that Mexican territory “is not and will never be a colony or protectorate of any foreign country,” after U.S. President Donald Trump posted an image featuring a map in which Mexico, Canada, Greenland, Iceland and some Caribbean islands are shown covered in the colors of the U.S. flag. The head of state’s response comes amid events leading up to the commemoration of Mexico’s independence.
Sheinbaum reiterated that Mexico is a “free, independent, and sovereign country” in the face of recent provocations by Trump, who also posted on social media a map in which he refers to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”
The U.S. president posted another image on social media of the state of New Mexico, in which he crossed out the second word and wrote “America” underneath it. The image, also shared by the White House on X, was released days after Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 27 to rename Lake Ontario — one of the Great Lakes on the U.S.-Canada border — as “Lake America.”
On Sept. 4, the White House occupant also lashed out at Mexico, claiming that the country has nothing to offer the United States other than “spicy tamales and tomatoes,” while warning that he would not sever trade ties with the neighboring nation.
In January 2025, Trump used an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, and he recently suggested that the Strait of Hormuz in West Asia — through which one-fifth of the world’s oil passes — should be renamed the “Trump Strait.”
Source: Resumen Latinoamericano – Buenos Aires
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