According to BARRON’s, just minutes after President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday, January 7th, that his incoming administration would be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican, and Trump ally, said she would be introducing legislation to fund the name change in maps, with the military and with the Federal Aviation Administration.
While it may sound fantastical for an American President to rename a major geographical feature, there’s plenty of historical precedent.
Still, even if the U.S. does rename the 615,000 square-mile basin on its maps and other official documents, that doesn’t mean the rest of the world will follow suit.
Trump wants to change the name because “we do most of the work there and it’s ours,” he said. But no country owns the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. only has jurisdiction over its upper half, which extends from its southern border with Mexico to the West to just below Florida to the East.
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