Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has responded sarcastically to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

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

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo on Wednesday hit back at President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” joking that the United States should instead be renamed “Mexican America.

Mexico's president on Wednesday responded sarcastically to Donald Trump's proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Standing before a global map, Claudia Sheinbaum suggested dryly that North America should be renamed “América Mexicana”,

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico also said Donald Trump was ill-informed when he said Mexico was “essentially run by the cartels.”

Pointing to a map of North America from 1607, Sheinbaum suggested going back to the name "Mexican America... It sounds pretty, no?"

The Mexican president responded to President-elect Trump's contention that the sea should have a more U.S.-centric designation by showing a map from 1607 during a Wednesday press conference. The map, which predates the founding of the United States by more than 150 years, labels all of North America as "América Mexicana” (“Mexican America”).

President Claudia Sheinbaum said the U.S. should be called "Mexican America" after Donald Trump said "Gulf of America" has "a beautiful ring to."

Donald Trump proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the 'Gulf of America,' and Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum shot back with a sarcastic response to the US President-elect.

Mexico's security situation was a key talking point at President Claudia Sheinbaum's daily press conference, or mañanera, on Thursday.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum doesn’t approve of this idea. At one of her recent press briefings, she pointed to a colonial-era map of North America that marked present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico as a part of the América Mexicana territory.