New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham turned President Trump’s “New America” map posts into a pocketbook counterattack after he pushed an altered version of her state’s name online.
The Democratic governor answered Sunday on X after Trump’s Truth Social account displayed a New Mexico map with a large “X” over “Mexico” and “America” placed below the state name.
The White House’s official X account put the same image in front of its own followers.
“New Mexico’s name isn’t up for debate — it’s been ours since before the United States existed. What is up for debate? Who’s showing up for working families,” Lujan Grisham wrote.
Instead of staying on the map, Lujan Grisham used Trump’s post to point at Iran, gas prices, grocery bills, health care and housing.
LMAO 🤣 President Trump actually posted a video of him changing New Mexico State to New America
THIS WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY EPIC 🔥 pic.twitter.com/KJrgnlQQAs
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) September 7, 2026
“While the President tries to distract Americans from his disastrous war in Iran, gas prices keep soaring. Americans are also spending more at the grocery store, losing access to health care and wondering if they’ll ever be able to afford a home,” the governor added.
The Hill said Trump’s map appeared after an online claim falsely stated that he had signed an executive order renaming New Mexico.
By Sunday night, Trump was treating the idea as something worth praising.
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“Many people suggested changing the name of New Mexico, one of the great vote cheating states of all time, to NEW AMERICA,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“So much more prestigious and beautiful for the people of that potentially incredible State. Wow, I Love It!!!”
Lujan Grisham’s reply moved from the name dispute into her own record, citing free childcare, free college, health care protections and housing spending in New Mexico.
🚨 NOW: President Trump just posted at least 6 maps in which New Mexico has been renamed to NEW AMERICA
Cue the meltdowns.
He's having a freaking blast 😂😂
Rename an ocean next! pic.twitter.com/lMilNuM8Mr
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 7, 2026
“Under Democratic leadership here in New Mexico, we’re providing families with free childcare and college, protecting access to health care and investing in housing. While the White House wastes time coloring on maps, Nuevo México is busy doing the work,” she wrote.
Senator Ben Ray Lujan answered Trump by mixing a defense of the state’s name with a Spanish insult.
“It’s New Mexico, always has been and always will be,” Lujan wrote. “Just like how you’ll always be a sinvergüenza and corrupt.”
The Spanish word was described in the supplied material as meaning a “shameless person” or “scoundrel.”
Democratic Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury cast the state’s name as something rooted in history and family.
“Oh hell no! Our state’s name carries generations of history, culture, and family—and it belongs to us. We’re New Mexicans. Period.”
Senator Martin Heinrich grouped New Mexico with two other names Trump has tried to recast.
“Three things I will always call by their actual names… The Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario, New Mexico,” Heinrich wrote.
Trump’s post also gave New Mexico’s governor’s race a new campaign line.
Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the Democratic nominee hoping to replace Lujan Grisham in November, posted video from a campaign event alongside the message, “I will always stand up for what makes New Mexico, New Mexico.”
Haaland used the “New America” image to take aim at Republican Gregg Hull.
“The only thing I can think of think about when I see that is my opponent, because he’s a Republican, he’s running for New America,” Haaland said. “I’m running to be the governor of New Mexico.”
Hull separated himself from Trump’s rename idea as well.
“New Mexico does not need a new name,” Hull said in a statement carried by local news outlets. “This state carries the history of Native nations and Spanish explorers who named this land nearly five hundred years ago, and generations of families who built New Mexico into what is is today. That identity is not up for negotiation.”
The Interior Department traces the name to the 16th century, when Mexicans used it for territory north and west of the Rio Grande.
Trump kept adding to the New Mexico bit after the map post.
Roughly an hour later, he put up an AI video in which a version of him slaps an “America” label onto a “Welcome to New Mexico” highway sign before breaking into his familiar two-handed dance.
On Monday, his account posted several map images that appeared to be AI-generated, with each one replacing the state’s name with “New America.”
Trump cannot rename New Mexico on his own, but the posts matched a larger pattern of geographic rebranding during his second term.
On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order requiring federal references to call the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.”
He also recently signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America.” The lake shares its name with a Canadian province.
That order came as Trump’s fight with Canada over trade remained unresolved.
Canada’s “dollar for dollar” retaliatory tariffs are set to begin Tuesday, two weeks after Trump placed 50 percent levies on $27.6 billion worth of Canadian products.
The supplied material said no renewed negotiations between the two countries had been reported.
Trump used Truth Social on Sunday to complain about Canada’s currency position against the United States.
“Canada’s Dollar imbalance with the U.S. is unacceptable,” Trump wrote. “It has been that way for years — but no longer!”
One Canadian dollar equals about 72 cents. Statistics Canada data showed a $769 million trade surplus for Canada in July.
Canadian businesses also sell more to American companies than they buy from them, with U.S. Census Bureau data showing the U.S. trade deficit with Canada topped $48 billion last year.
Trump has criticized Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during the trade fight, saying Carney wants the benefits of Canada becoming a U.S. state without actually making the country one. Trump has often argued during his second term that the U.S. should annex Canada.
Trump later widened the trade argument beyond Canada, posting a graphic that accused foreign net exporters of using eight “hidden tricks” to gain economic advantages.
The graphic listed tactics including cheapening their currency, selling products below market value, copying U.S. goods and receiving cash back on exports.
