{"id":86221,"date":"2026-09-07T08:49:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86221"},"modified":"2026-09-07T08:49:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:49:39","slug":"now-trump-floats-idea-of-renaming-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/now-trump-floats-idea-of-renaming-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Trump Floats Idea Of Renaming New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">President Trump appeared to suggest on Sunday that New Mexico should be renamed \u201cNew America,\u201d prompting swift backlash from the state\u2019s Democratic leaders over his latest effort to put an American stamp on geographic names.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">On social media, Mr. Trump\u00a0<a class=\"css-povzk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117225349620809512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared an image of a map<\/a>\u00a0of New Mexico with the word \u201cMexico\u201d crossed out with a red X and replaced with \u201cAmerica.\u201d The White House\u00a0<a class=\"css-povzk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2096657477928448250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">re-shared the image<\/a> shortly after on its official X account.\u00a0The president posted again several hours later, with what appeared to be\u00a0<a class=\"css-povzk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117226720070374585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an A.I. video<\/a>\u00a0of him placing a label with the word \u201cAmerica\u201d over \u201cMexico\u201d on a \u201cWelcome to New Mexico\u201d road sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: President Trump appeared to suggest on Sunday that New Mexico should be renamed \u201cNew America,\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86222,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86221\/revisions\/86222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}