(The Hill) – The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) began utilizing the time period “Gulf of America” to consult with the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, sooner or later after President Trump signed an government order setting in movement the method to vary its official title.
The USCG introduced on Tuesday it might deploy extra property to a number of areas, together with to “the maritime border between Texas and Mexico within the Gulf of America.”
The assertion marked one of many first official makes use of of the time period “Gulf of America” by the U.S. authorities.
It follows Trump’s executive order on Monday giving the U.S. Division of the Inside 30 days to take “all applicable motion” wanted to facilitate the title change.
Trump pledged to rename the Gulf of Mexico throughout his inaugural tackle, resurfacing a proposal he floated during a wide-ranging press convention earlier this month at his Palm Seaside resort.
“A short while from now, we’re going to be altering the title of the Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of America,’ and we’ll restore the title of an amazing president, William McKinley, to ‘Mount McKinley,’ the place it needs to be and the place it belongs,” Trump mentioned shortly after he was sworn in, referring to the Alaska mountain now referred to as Denali.
The renaming announcement, which prompted criticism from some, was instantly embraced by a few of Trump’s supporters.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), Trump’s former 2024 major rival, became one of the first public officials to use the term “Gulf of America,” when he issued an government order on Monday addressing a winter climate system hitting his state this week.
“WHEREAS, an space of low stress shifting throughout the Gulf of America, interacting with Arctic air, will deliver widespread impactful winter climate to North Florida starting Tuesday, January 21, 2025,” the DeSantis order learn.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) additionally embraced the change and publicly urged Apple to vary the official title on its mapping platform.
“Hey @tim_cook, simply seen Apple Maps nonetheless calls it the Gulf of Mexico. Despatched a report via the app, however thought you’d need to know,” Crenshaw wrote in a Tuesday post on X tagging the corporate’s CEO.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced a bill earlier this month to rename the Gulf of Mexico, shortly after Trump introduced his intention of doing the identical.
