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New Mexico Democrats push back over Trump posts about renaming the state ‘New America’
NBC News • • general
Key Points:
- New Mexico Democratic leaders, including Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, strongly oppose President Donald Trump’s social media posts suggesting renaming New Mexico as “New America.”
- Trump posted AI-generated images on Truth Social depicting the state with the new name, claiming it would be more prestigious and criticizing New Mexico as a “vote cheating state.”
- Democrats emphasize New Mexico’s history and identity, noting that changing the state’s name would require a constitutional amendment approved by voters, which cannot be done unilaterally by the president.
- Other Democratic officials, including Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan, and Representative Melanie Stansbury, also rejected Trump’s renaming proposal, highlighting the cultural and historical significance of the state’s name.
- Trump has a pattern of attempting to rename geographic locations, having previously renamed Lake Ontario as “Lake America” and the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” through executive orders.
