President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the 'Gulf of America,' citing its significance to the United States. While symbolic, the name change would have no legal effect on maritime boundaries.
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the 'Gulf of America,' because 'it's ours.' 'We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory,' Trump said of the ocean basin that borders five US states to the north and Mexico to the south. It’s carried some version of the Gulf of Mexico name, given to it by Spanish colonisers, since the 1540s.
‘The Gulf of America ― what a beautiful name. And it’s appropriate,’ Trump said at a news conference, also asserting: ‘We do most of the work there. It’s ours.’ One of the United States’ biggest impacts on the Gulf was the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, when a BP-operated prospect caused the biggest marine oil spill in petroleum industry history. Despite the event constituting one of the largest environmental disasters in world history, Trump’s name change would have no practical effect on the Gulf’s maritime boundaries between the US and Mexico, and in practice, no country can own international waters. And if offer any indication, the cost of identifying, modifying and removing assets referring to the Gulf of Mexico could carry a price tag in the multimillions. President-elect Donald Trump announced his 'Gulf of America' idea Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Not long after Trump’s remarks Tuesday, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (Republican, Georgia) she would file legislation to make Trump’s proposed name change. Beyond that, it’s unclear how a potential renaming process would play out. Trump is not the first one to pitch the new name, but he may be the first one to do so seriously. In 2012, former Mississippi state Rep. Stephen Holland, a Democrat, proposing the same name change
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