‘It’s Absurd’: Mexicans mocking and pulling off Trump’s order to rename Mexico Golf

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When Google announced that it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename Mexico Golf to the Gulf of America, many Mexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted sigh.

At her daily press briefing on Tuesday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum largely withdrew from Google’s movement and noted that Trump’s order applies only to the US continental shelf, suggesting her country would not comply with it.

“The golf is still the Gulf of Mexico,” she said.

Many of her colleagues Mexicans have been in the same way dismissive.

On social media, users shared photos that pierced fun at what some called Trump’s “occupation” with their country and the unorthodox nature of his decision. Some football fans suggested sarcastically that Trump paid tribute to the popular Mexican football team, Club América.

But not everyone laughs. In an editorial for the Mexican newspaper El UniversalLegal expert Mario Melgar-Adalid advised the country to push back.

“Mexico must certainly oppose this interference, otherwise the next step may be that instead of the United Mexican States (Mexico’s formal name), as established in our constitution, they will start calling us old Mexico,” he wrote.

In the Mexican coastal state of Veracruz, bordering the Gulf, Government rejected Rocío Nahle Trump’s movement. “Today and always … for 500 years it has been and will continue to be our rich and big” Gulf of Mexico, “the Governor wrote on social media last week.

Juan Cobos, a former resident of Veracruz, who now lives in Mexico City, called it “absurd”, who said hundreds of years of history could not be deleted by a pen.

“You can’t change anything overnight what we’ve grown up with – history, geography, all that. You can’t be so authoritarian that you can change it from one day to the next one. ”

Another resident told CNN that “Many Veracruzanos express irritation, others confusion, and for many it is funny… because people do not care that the name of the Mexico Golf will soon change and they think it is fun to play with the name change. ”

Another resident of Mexico City called Trump’s order “so childish” who said to CNN, “Obviously it’s not right.”

Google said Monday that its steps were in line with its “practice of using name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.” The company noted that the change would only be used in the United States. Mexico users will continue to see the “Mexico Golf” on Google Maps. The rest of the world will see both names.

Trump, in his Executive Order Last week he said he instructed the water mass to be renamed to the bay of America “in recognition of this thriving economic resource and its critical significance to our country’s economy and its people.” The order calls for all federal government cards and documents to reflect the change.

He also ordered the country’s highest mountain, Denali, switching its name back to Mount McKinley, in honor of President William McKinley. Google said it would also update the name of its cards when the geographical name information system, a government database with names and location data, is updated.

Sheinbaum responded with ridicule at the time. At a press conference, she presented a map of 1607 that felt parts of North America as “Mexican America”, and driedly suggested that the Gulf should be renamed as such.

She said, “That sounds good, no?”