Donald Trump shared on Monday, September 7, a map on his Truth Social platform in which the American flag covers Mexico, the Caribbean, Canada, Greenland, and Iceland. The American President published the map without comments, hours after suggesting that the state of New Mexico should be renamed to "New America," in a continuation of his claim over the "Gulf of America." The origin of the map is unclear, as the Republican usually shares memes and images generated by supporters or by artificial intelligence.
Trump has been expressing expansionist ambitions regarding territories such as Greenland and Canada during his second term, and has not ruled out military intervention to take Cuba. The map was also released days after he signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario, located on the border between the US and Canada, to "Lake America."
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to the map with a message on social media platform X, clarifying that Mexican territory "is not and will not be a colony or protectorate of any foreign country," without explicitly mentioning Trump's post.
