Before President Trump, the best -known call to change the name of the name of Mexico by Stephen Colbert, who joked in his comedy Central Show in 2010 that the waters were to be described as Gulf of America at the top of the oil pollution of the Deepwater Horizon because ” We broke it, we bought it. “
It could have been worse almost 15 years later: Trump could have been renamed the Gulf of Mexico to Maga's Gulf. (Give him no ideas!)
But Trump's arrival when changing the name to the Gulf of America does not retain a joking approach from Colbert's sarcastic proposal.
When William Nericcio heard from Trump's executive command for the first time to do exactly that, the English professor of the state of San Diego released it as a “a big advertising work to hide more shameful things”.
It was certainly taken in the weeks before the tenure day when Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reacted to the news of Trump's plans by proposing the American southwest, which was part of Mexico until the Mexican-American War of 1848, in “América Mexicana” to be renamed. “”
The laugh continued when Trump mentioned the Gulf of America during his opening speech, and then signed the change of the law together with 25 other executive orders, which included a ban on the birth law of citizenship, withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and the entire variety of Equity and inclusion ended or dei, programs.
The water body limited by the USA, Mexico and Cuba as a Gulf – which Trump justified in his order, it is an essential component for our once emerging nation and has remained an indelible part of America ” – – – was viewed as a random whistle , namely because cartographers and governments around the world have used “Gulf of Mexico” for almost 475 years.
But the more nericcio thought about a gesture that he thought was “directly from Barnum & Bailey”, the more he started to worry.
He is the author of “Tex (T) -Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the 'Mexican' in American”, a hilarious, yet revealing book about the history of the anti -Mexican feeling in the United States. It pursues the representation of Mexicans in popular culture through postcards that the Mexican Revolution, Hollywood stereotypes, racist songs and more representing efforts that Nericcio argued, have heated the antimexican laws and moods in this country for decades.
“Speaking of the Spanish language on Mexican soil can trigger the most Jingoistic attitudes,” said Nericcio.
The National Marine Sanctuary of the US Flower Garden Banks is 100 nautical miles in front of Texas, which has been known as a Gulf of Mexico for centuries. Despite Trump's name change, most waters are under Mexico's responsibility.
(LM Otero / Associated Press)
He was annoyed when Trump declared the Gulf of America Day on February 9th and said that it was part of the restoration of “American pride”. To reflect America. ” Nericcio groaned when the White House Associated Press reporter from the Oval Office in retaliatory measures for news organization – whose style guide is considered a gold standard for American journalism, is also viewed by La Times and announced that they would continue to “Golf of Mexico would use ”in his stories while Trump's name name changes.
But what did that do Law enforcement In full despair mode, Apple and Google updated its card services last week so that American users now see “Gulf of America”. The decision prompted the Mexican government to write Google a letter in which it is said that “under no circumstances accepted the renaming of a geographical zone within its own territory and under its jurisdiction” and threatened a lawsuit.
Nericcio is usually quickly to a Bon -engine, but his worrying tone, when we spoke, was something that I had never heard in the 15 years that we know each other.
“We know that the history of America's Empire is, but this is America who falls his pants and shows his empire tattoos,” he said. “It is bare, naked imperialism and it is in the order of Stalin.”
It is easy to release Nericcio as a wild academic managedBut he is not wrong at all.
The name change is not a punch line or a strange Trump-Quirk a la Ketchup on steak or its YMCA dance with weak salsa. It is an indication of a commander -in -chief Hellbent to continue his efforts in a modern obvious fate against our ultimate frenem in any way, in any way or form. Trump is convinced that the American public will largely accept something that he does against Mexico, because do you guess what? It's just Mexico.
Critics and supporters have long said that they should take Trump in his word, and only a few things have shown that this is more true than his Vendendta against the country of my parents. Exactly in the speech in which he announced his first successful presidential run a decade ago in June when he got down a golden staircase in his Manhattan tower in his Manhattan tower, such as the dilapidated but almighty Padishhah emperor in the “Dune” -Franchise.
Within the first three minutes of his speech, Trump spoke the line: “When Mexico sends his people, they don't send their best. … they bring drugs. They bring crimes. They are more rapists. And some are, I assume good people. ”
That is the viral part of his anti-Mexican. But there was more.
Trump mentioned Mexico 13 times in this speech, his pronunciation dripped with contempt every time. He promised to build a “great, large wall” to seal it from us and described our southern neighbors as “The New China”. He whined that Mexico “laughs at us, about our stupidity. And now they beat us economically. You are not our friend, believe me. But they kill us economically. “So much bile against our second largest trading partner and the traditional country of millions of American citizens-and yet the crowd cheered.
Trump followed his saber rattling. He never stopped describing people who pass from Mexico to this country as an “invasion” and swears, the legal migration, the country's immigrants, without legal documents to limit this country that has never seen before. He still threatens to force strong tariffs against Mexico, while his team stores the idea of channeling their internal general Pershing and starting military ideas into the country, under the guise of fighting drug cartels. Last month, Defense Minister Pete Hegseth told Fox News that “all options will be on the table”.
Wiping the golf of Mexico of US cards is not a lark. It is a promise of more. It is an excerpt from the Latin American Strongmen who have plagued the western hemisphere for a long time, but now have a eager imitation in the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
I asked Nericcio to find one silver strip in all of this, or at least advice on how to defend yourself. “We own the engines of legitimacy and do not – unfortunately he does,” replied Nericcio. “We speak in the past form, Gustavo. It's done. “
The then Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came to a rose garden event in 2020, although Trump was distributed by immigrants from Mexico. The successor to Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum, was not so conciliatory.
(Evan Vucci / Associated Press)
He stated the following scenario: If the closest to the Gulf of Mexico, if American school children affect a geographical task, you will look up the cards from Google, Apple or websites of the Federal Government. “You will see Gulf of America and think: 'Oh, that's the right answer for my homework because the internet says it. And Voila, you now have a whole generation that gives it with a name without a historical basis. “
Leave nericcio sound. “What brings me is the anemic setback. Anemic. Almost like “yes, dad.” It is like seeing a film with a super villain that gains and wins again and again, and I don't think this will have a happy ending. “