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New Mexicans meet Trump’s threat to change state’s name with ridicule and outrage
Residents denounce suggestion to rename state ‘New America’, save some Republicans who insist it was ‘satire’
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When scrolling through social media over the Labor Day weekend, Steven Michael Quezada, an actor, comedian and native New Mexican, was stopped cold by a post about Donald Trump’s recent call to rename New Mexico as “New America”.
“At first I thought, nah, that’s got to be a joke,” said Quezada, who played the drug enforcement agent Steven Gomez in the legendary TV series Breaking Bad.
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Melissa Segura in Santa Fe · Wed, Sep 9, 2026, 7:55 AM
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Residents denounce suggestion to rename state ‘New America’, save some Republicans who insist it was ‘satire’
When scrolling through social media over the Labor Day weekend, Steven Michael Quezada, an actor, comedian and native New Mexican, was stopped cold by a post about Donald Trump’s recent call to rename New Mexico as “New America”.
“At first I thought, nah, that’s got to be a joke,” said Quezada, who played the drug enforcement agent Steven Gomez in the legendary TV series Breaking Bad.
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