Mexico’s president has sharp response to Donald Trump’s order to change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America

President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum has argued the ‘entire world’ will still call the Gulf by its original name.

Within the first 24 hours of being sworn in as the President of the United States for the second time, Donald Trump wasted no time signing off on multiple executive orders.

By January 21, the White House’s website listed 25 executive orders including one about ‘restoring names that honor American greatness’.

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Donald Trump’s executive order

The order argues that it’s ‘in the national interest to promote the extraordinary heritage of our Nation and ensure future generations of American citizens celebrate the legacy of our American heroes’, and so the naming of the US’ ‘national treasures, including breathtaking natural wonders and historic works of art, should honor the contributions of visionary and patriotic Americans in our Nation’s rich past’.

Two examples listed including the renaming of North America’s highest peak to ‘Mount McKinley’ to honor President McKinley. And the second? Well, the Gulf of Mexico being renamed as ‘Gulf of America’.

The order notes the area as being ‘an integral asset to our once burgeoning Nation and has remained an indelible part of America’ and ‘a crucial artery for America’s early trade and global commerce’.

Reflecting on its ‘remarkable body of water’ alongside ‘natural resources and wildlife,’ it resolved: “The Gulf will continue to play a pivotal role in shaping America’s future and the global economy, and in recognition of this flourishing economic resource and its critical importance to our Nation’s economy and its people, I am directing that it officially be renamed the Gulf of America.”

And Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum has since addressed the executive order, arguing Trump can call the Gulf whatever he likes, but it will ultimately always be known as the Gulf of Mexico to the rest of the world.

Mexico’s response to Donald Trump

Trump signed off on the Gulf of Mexico now being known as the Gulf of America (CHIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump signed off on the Gulf of Mexico now being known as the Gulf of America (CHIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

In a briefing on the morning of Tuesday (January 21), Sheinbaum said, as quoted by DW.com: “He says that he will call it the ‘Gulf of America’ on its continental shelf. For us it is still the Gulf of Mexico and for the entire world it is still the Gulf of Mexico.”

Elsewhere in the speech, she noted it’s ‘important to always keep a cool head and refer to signed agreements, beyond actual speeches’.

She added: “Regarding the decrees that President Donald Trump signed yesterday, I would like to say the following: The people of Mexico can be sure that we will always defend our sovereignty and our independence.”

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How Trump's executive order against trans people technically makes every American female

How Trump’s executive order against trans people technically makes every American female

The new president’s executive order declaring there are only two genders has some scientific inaccuracies

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Donald Trump officially declared that there are ‘only two genders’ as he returned to the Oval Office, but the wording of his executive order could come back to bite him.

The executive order, signed on the first day of Trump’s second term in office, is presented as an order which will ‘defend women from gender ideology extremism and restore biological truth to the federal government’.

The order claims ‘ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex’ have ‘used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women’.

Trump signed his executive order on his first day in office (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump signed his executive order on his first day in office (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Branding this as ‘wrong’, Trump’s order states: “Accordingly, my Administration will defend women’s rights and protect freedom of conscience by using clear and accurate language and policies that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.”

The order goes on to give definitions for the terms ‘female’ and ‘male’, but in doing so, the order actually suggests that every human is a female.

It states: “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.”

If your biology classes have been long forgotten, then allow me to explain.

For the first few weeks after being conceived, all embryos look the same in a state called ‘unisex’. This state forms the blueprint for female bodies, and it’s not until about six weeks after conception that most people with an XY genotype will follow a male developmental process.

Twitter users quickly picked up on the inaccuracies (X)

Twitter users quickly picked up on the inaccuracies (X)

A report published by the National Library of Medicine explains: “All human individuals—whether they have an XX, an XY, or an atypical sex chromosome combination—begin development from the same starting point. During early development the gonads of the fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.”

Though the team behind Trump’s executive order may not have caught this, people on Twitter certainly have.

“In case you missed it, Trump issued an executive order yesterday declaring all Americans’ gender is determined at the moment of conception. All human zygotes are female at the moment of conception. Donald Trump just created approximately 160 million F2M transgender people,” one person wrote after seeing the order.

Another commented: “Fun fact, the zygote is coded as female at conception so saying sex is defined at conception like Trumps executive order stats means we’re all assigned female at conception. It takes 6-7 weeks of gestation for sex to determine your assigned gender at birth. Let’s go girls!”

When push comes to shove, it’s likely any officials interpreting the order would form an opinion based on its intended meaning rather than the scientific meaning.

But there’s no escaping the irony that in his attempt to stop men from ‘self-identifying as women’, Trump accidentally assigned them all a new gender.

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  • o·vum

    Noun biology

    a mature female reproductive cell, especially of a human or other animal, which can divide to give rise to an embryo usually only after fertilization by a male cell.

    “the ovum contributes one chromosome of each pair to the fertilized cell”

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  • So trump is declaring he is the first woman president…lol

  • if you DNA tested the embryo at conception, it will show that they are XX or XY. however, That’s not how we usually determine the sex of the unborn baby. we determined it by ultrasound of the baby and looking at the gonads area, which is around a month or two AFTER the conception.

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  • The text “at conception” refers when the male and female have s3x. The female is the one that produces the large cell, the male produces lots of tiny cells.

    It doesn’t refer “at conception” when that specific cell is fertilized and starts dividing.

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    • Conception can happen a few days after the people have sex. It most certainly does NOT occur in that very moment. Jesus.

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Body language expert breaks down Donald Trump's 'silent statement' during arrival at church service ahead of inauguration

Body language expert breaks down Donald Trump’s ‘silent statement’ during arrival at church service ahead of inauguration

Trump arrived alongside incoming first lady, Melania, for the traditional service at St. John’s Church

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A body language expert has broken down the ‘silent statement’ made by Donald Trump as he arrived for a church service ahead of his presidential inauguration.

Trump arrived with his wife and incoming first lady, Melania Trump, to St John’s Church, known as the ‘Church of the Presidents’, as he prepares to take on the role of the 47th President of the United States today (January 20).

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Trump, who was last voted into the Oval Office in 2016, will reassume the position after taking the oath of office at the inauguration, which this year is being held inside the Capitol building.

The church service – a traditional event for president-elects ahead of the inauguration – marks the imminent end of Joe Biden’s time in office, but the outgoing president shared kind words for his successor when the two met later at the White House.

After witnessing Trump’s arrival at the church, body language expert Judi James shared her thoughts and noted that ‘Trump didn’t just show up; he arrived’.

Trump arrived at St. John's church for a traditional service (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump arrived at St. John’s church for a traditional service (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Speaking to Paddy Power, James said: “Gone was the peacocking and showboating of old – this was alpha mode at full throttle. The chest? Inflated and splayed like a cockerel in a power pose. The spine? Upright enough to make a Buckingham Palace guard jealous. The expression? A lip-clamp and raised jaw combo that screamed, ‘I’m in charge. Again.’

“It was a deliberate transformation. The man who has Rocky, Braveheart, and even the Village People on his inspirational playlist looked ready to outshine them all. This wasn’t just Trump the showman – this was Trump the heavyweight.”

James went on to express belief that Tump was trying to convey something very specific in his arrival, saying: “As he stepped out of the car, he stood to attention, shoulders squared, head rotating like he was scanning for doubters. Then, with a single, low-raised fist, he delivered a quiet yet commanding gesture of triumph – a silent statement that said, ‘Try stopping me now.’”

James believes Trump was making a 'silent statement' (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

James believes Trump was making a ‘silent statement’ (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

After the church service, Trump and Melania made their way to the White House where they were greeted by Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, before making their way to the Capitol building for the most important event of the day – the swearing-in ceremony.

Former presidents including Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama are all present at the event, along with some of Trump’s government picks such as Elon Musk.

Everything Trump has pledged to do as 47th US President

Delaying the TikTok ban

After TikTok went dark yesterday (January 19), it was bought back after mere hours with a message reading: “Welcome back! Thank you for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the US!”

Trump will reportedly sign an executive order to delay the ban saying he wants to ‘make a deal to protect our national security.’

Immigration

In a statement during a rally at Madison Square Garden during his presidential race he said: “On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out.

“I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible.”

Planning over 100 executive orders

It’s been reported by AP that Trump plans on preparing over 100 executive orders on his first day in the White House. Trump’s allies have reportedly spent time preparing documents that Trump can sign quickly, on issues such as deportation, school gender policies and vaccine mandates, without input from congress.

“There will be a substantial number,” said Senator John Hoeven, R-N.D.

Making hidden government files public

Including the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr., Trump promised at his recent rally in Washington D.C that, in a bid to increase government transparency, he will be making these disclosures in ‘the coming days’.

“And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”

‘Make Greenland Great Again Act’

In a bid that has not gone down well with Greenlanders, taking to his social media platform Truth Social Trump said: “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.

“Greenland is an incredible place. The people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”

January 6 pardons

Trump’s loss in the 2020 election led to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in turn resulting in the arrests of a number of Trump supporters.

In an interview with TIME, Trump said that looking into the cases of the rioters’ will take place in ‘the first nine minutes’ of his time in office.

In a post shared on his social media channel, Trump said: “I am inclined to pardon many of them. I can’t say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control.”

Getting rid of birthright citizenship

Exactly as it sounds, Trump once declared he wanted to get rid of birthright citizenship, which immediately gives citizenship to anyone born in US. Noting that this may not be possible as it’s written into the constitution, he said he wants to achieve this by executive order – bypassing congress again – ‘if we can’.

Cut federal funding for schools educating on ‘inappropriate’ topics

Speaking early last year, Trump addressed a crowd in Iowa and made plans to ‘save [the] country from destruction’.

“On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity,” he said, per NPR.

Trump also said he would target schools pushing ‘any other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on our children’.

Making the US the ‘crypto capital’

Back in 2021, Trump called crypto a ‘scam against the dollar.’ But four years on, he’s pulled a u-turn as he vowed to make the US the ‘crypto capital of the planet’.

On social media, Trump claimed crypto would be ‘mined, minted and made in the US’.

Both he and wife Melania released their own memecoins ahead of the inauguration, while experts previously predicted Bitcoin could reach up to $250,000 this year.

Be a ‘dictator’

In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity last year, he referred to himself as a ‘dictator’ when asked if he was promising to ‘never abuse power as retribution against anybody’.

In response, Trump said: “Except for Day 1.

“I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill. We’re closing the border and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling,” he continued.

“After that, I’m not a dictator.”

End Green Deals

Trump has spoken previously about his plan to ‘terminate the Green New Deal’, which he dubbed the ‘Green New Scam’.

The Green New Deal was pitched by Democrats Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, but it was never signed into law.

Addressing the policies in a speech in September, Trump said: “To further defeat inflation, my plan will terminate the Green New Deal, which I call the Green New Scam. Greatest scam in history, probably.

“We [will] rescind all unspent funds under the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act.”

“I’m going to write it out in an executive order. It’s going to end on Day 1.”

Arrange green cards for college graduates

Despite making his stance on migration clear, Trump has advocated for non-US citizens to receive green cards to stay in the country if they graduate from college.

During an episode of the ‘All In’ podcast recorded this year, Trump said: “Anybody graduates from a college, you go in there for two years or four years, if you graduate, or you get a doctorate degree from a college, you should be able to stay in this country […]

“Somebody graduates at the top of the class, they can’t even make a deal with the company because they don’t think they’re going to be able to stay in the country. That is going to end on Day 1.”

Scrap ‘electric vehicle mandates’

Trump plans to scrap Biden administration’s so-called electric vehicle mandate, referring to new pollution standards that incentivize auto manufacturers to increase production of electric and lower-emission vehicles.

Despite vowing to get rid of the policy on his first day, Trump told podcaster Joe Rogan the move could take ‘maybe two days, because it’s a little bit busy’.

Fire the man who indicted him

Trump faced two federal cases in relation to the 2020 election result from special counsel Jack Smith, and the future POTUS has no plans to work with him again.

Speaking on October 24, Trump told the Hugh Hewitt show he would fire Smith ‘within two seconds’.

“He’ll be one of the first things addressed,” he said.

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  • I would have walked out of the service the moment that the bishop brought politics in her speech! It is my opinion, that her words were her a disgrace to the Lord Almighty. I believe that she should apologize to the people’s President and Vice President.

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Over 500 people became millionaires in less than 24 hours after investing in Donald Trump's new cryptocurrency

Over 500 people became millionaires in less than 24 hours after investing in Donald Trump’s new cryptocurrency

President-elect Donald Trump’s memecoin has made 525 people richer than rich

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People have become millionaires after investing in US President-elect Donald Trump’s memecoin.

If you’ve not been keeping a close eye on the cryptocurrency market lately, you’ll have completely missed the fact that Trump released his $Trump memecoin as he prepares to take office and become inaugurated tomorrow (January 20).

The soon-to-be 47th president of the US sent out a tweet from his official Truth Social, his social media platform account, telling his followers to join him in ‘winning’ to celebrate his presidency.

The website said: “This Trump Meme celebrates a leader who doesn’t back down, no matter the odds.”

However, it came with a disclaimer to confirm that the coin is ‘not intended to be, or the subject of’ an investment opportunity and it’s also ‘not political and has nothing to do with’ any campaigns, persons or offices.

Donald Trump's memecoin has reached new heights of success (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s memecoin has reached new heights of success (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

It states that it is not intended to be an ‘expression of support for, and engagement with, the ideals and beliefs embodied by the symbol $TRUMP’ and it’s also not ‘intended to be, or to be the subject of, an investment opportunity, investment contract, or security of any type’.

Co-ordinated by CIC Digital LLC, which is an affiliate of the Trump Organization, the meme coin did something that many could not have anticipated- it skyrocketed into the billions overnight.

Within just six hours, it went from a few cents to $14, and it just kept climbing from there.

Hours after its launch, the market capitalisation was nearly $5.5bn, as per CoinMarketCap.com, making 500 traders millionaires thanks to their investments.

While only some 200 million coins have been issued, the website stated that 800 million will be released in the next three years for traders to snatch up.

But while many have become super rich thanks to their investments, others have accused Trump of benefiting from the coin.

Nick Tomaino, a crypto venture capitalist, said on social media: “Trump owning 80 percent and timing launch hours before inauguration is predatory and many will likely get hurt by it.”

The $Trump coin made 525 people millionaires (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

The $Trump coin made 525 people millionaires (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

According to SolanaFloor, a news site which reports on digital finance, wrote on X: “A trader is up $29.8M on $TRUMP, Donald Trump’s official memecoin on Solana. He spent $1.09M to buy 5,971,750 TRUMP coins, now worth $30.8M in under 2 hours—a 2,634% gain. The trader has not sold any coins yet.”

At the time of writing, the memecoin has become the second largest on the market, with a 272 per cent increase in investment.

According to onchain data, it had over $3 billion in trading volumes within hours of it going live, it boasted a $2 billion market capitalization and it even brought in early buyers over $70 million in paper gains, and around $1 million for the smaller traders.

As this is the first time a president has given their likeness to a memecoin, it’s a pretty big deal in the crypto world.

According to a screenshot of traders, over 525 people became $TRUMP millionaires in less than 24 hours of investing in the coins.

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  • How on earth was that trader able to get $Trump @0.18 per coin? Insider trading?

    It started on most exchanges at $20 your average Joe would not get this opportunity. Trump now has a license to print money.

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  • Until the inevitable rugpull

  • The success of this will show a little further into the future.

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What will happen in Donald Trump's hush money case now he's President-Elect

What will happen in Donald Trump’s hush money case now he’s President-Elect

Donald Trump is now president-elect after defeating Kamala Harris

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While Donald Trump may be president-elect, he does have an upcoming sentencing for his involvement in the hush money scandal – but what happens now?

The former president will be returning to The White House in January after defeating Kamala Harris in the 2024 US presidential election.

Trump declared victory at his campaign’s HQ in West Palm Beach, Florida earlier on Wednesday (6 November) after being projected to win the battleground states of North CarolinaGeorgia and Pennsylvania.

The 45th US president said he had ‘made history’ as he was joined on stage by some of his key allies.

“Every single day I will be fighting for you, with every single breath in my body. I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe and prosperous America that children deserve,” Trump said.

“And that you deserve. This will truly be the golden age for America.”

Donald Trump is president-elect (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Donald Trump is president-elect (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

While Trump prepares for his return to the Oval Office, he is scheduled to be sentenced on November 26 for his involvement in a hush money case.

Trump is a convicted felon after he was found guilty in Manhattan on all 34 counts of falsifying business records.

Trump had previously denied the accusations, which claim that the records were linked to a hush money payment to adult film star, Stormy Daniels, by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen.

After he was found guilty, Trump described the trial as a ‘disgrace’ and ‘rigged’ and said he was an ‘innocent man’.

Now Trump is president-elect, what impact, if any, will that have on his sentencing scheduled for later this month?

Well, it was previously confirmed that whether Trump won or lost the election, he would have a mandatory sentencing, Business Insider notes.

Donald Trump's sentencing is scheduled for later this month (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for later this month (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

However, there is a chance the date may be pushed back, as Trump could argue he is too busy running the country.

While it was never really expected Trump would face jail time for the charges, him now being president-elect rules out the possibility of prison, according to Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers.

“Trump winning makes it logistically impossible and a certainty that he won’t receive any time,” he told Business Insider.

Meanwhile, speaking of Trump, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, former chief of the Manhattan District Attorney’s trial division, said: “If he wins, say goodbye to all the criminal cases,” as per ABC News.

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