Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum suggests renaming the USA "MEXICAN AMERICA"! [Bob and Joan - Deportee 1976]

Bob Dylan & Joan Baez | Deportee | Woody Guthrie Cover | 1976

After the film ( A Complete Unknown) I thought another track from Joan and Bob might be apposite and just a reminder in a week where the Mexican President points out we should rename the USA "Mexican America”! You know like it used to be called! . . . . . .

now THAT’S a salute I can get behind!

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum mocked Donald Trump on Wednesday for his suggestion to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”

During a press conference held in Mexico’s National Palace, Sheinbaum stood in front of a map from 1607 that labeled the United States as “Mexican America” and the gulf as the “Gulf of Mexico”—nearly 170 years before the United States was founded in 1776.

“Why don’t we call it Mexican America? It sounds pretty, no?” Sheinbaum mockingly asked.

Large portions of the United States were originally part of Mexico. At the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848, the country lost 55% of its territory, which became California, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, and most of Colorado and Arizona.

Sheinbaum also accused Trump of living in the past, noting, “I think they told President (elect) Trump wrong, they told him Felipe Calderón is still president.” 

Calderón was Mexico’s president from 2006 to 2012.

During his Tuesday press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said, “We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. What a beautiful name. And it’s appropriate. It’s appropriate. And Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country.”

Joan Baez & Bob Dylan, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)” Fort Worth, TX, May 16, 1976.

“We’ve died in your hills and we’ve died in your deserts. We’ve died in your valleys, we’ve died on your plains. We’ve died 'neath your trees and we’ve died in your bushes, Both sides of the river we’ve died just the same...

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Some of us are illegal, and others not wanted Our work contract's out and we have to move on But it's six hundred miles to that Mexican border They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.

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Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards? Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit? To fall like dry leaves and rot on the top soil and be called by no name except "deportee"

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane

All they will call you will be deportees.”

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita

Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria

You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane

All they will call you will be deportees.”