Trump Takes Renaming Campaign Further, Sharing Map Labeling New Mexico as “New America”
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- Donald Trump shared a Truth Social map depicting New Mexico as “New America,” after his administration pursued other geographic name changes.
- The White House reposted the image on its official X account.
- New Mexico Democrats condemned the move, insisting the state’s name could not simply be erased.
Donald Trump’s campaign to change geographic names has taken a new turn: a map he shared depicts New Mexico as “New America.”
Trump posted the map on Truth Social on the 6th, according to the U.S. political news outlet The Hill. The image crossed out “Mexico” in the state’s name and replaced it with “America.” The White House then shared the image on its official X account.
The post triggered angry reactions from Democratic politicians in New Mexico. Senator Martin Heinrich wrote on X that there were three names he would always use in their real form: the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario and New Mexico.
There are three things I will always call by their real names: the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario, and New Mexico.
His comment referred to Trump’s executive orders seeking to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and Canada’s Lake Ontario as Lake America. Representative Gabe Vasquez said Trump could not erase New Mexico.
“The president may want to call us ‘New America,’ but we know who we are,” Vasquez said, according to the report.
The president may want to call us ‘New America,’ but we know who we are.
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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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