Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei mocked President Donald Trump on Tuesday over his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to become the Gulf of America, Newsweek reported.
“USA has set out to change on paper the map of the world! Of course, only on paper. In the real world, it lacks all reality,” Khamenei posted on X in Spanish and other languages. The accompanying image used the words “Golfo de México,” or Gulf of Mexico in Spanish.
One of Trump’s first executive orders as president was the Gulf of Mexico change, and on Monday, workers at the U.S. Board on Geographic Names have formally changed the name to the Gulf of America. Google has also complied and updated its maps, although Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum has promised to ignore it. While traveling to the Super Bowl on Sunday, Trump declared the day as the “first ever Gulf of America Day.”
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