(The Hill) – The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) began using the term “Gulf of the Americas” to refer to the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, a day after President Trump signed an executive order beginning the formal name change process. .
The USCG announced Tuesday that it would deploy additional assets to several locations, including “the Texas-Mexico border in the U.S. Gulf.”
This statement marked one of the first official uses of the term “American Gulf” by the U.S. government.
This follows President Trump’s executive order on Monday giving the U.S. Department of the Interior 30 days to take “all appropriate actions” necessary to facilitate the name change.
President Trump pledged to rename the Gulf of Mexico in his inaugural address, resurfacing a proposal he laid out earlier this month during a wide-ranging news conference in his resort town of Palm Beach.
“Right now, we’re going to rename the Gulf of Mexico ‘Gulf of America’ and change the name of our great president William McKinley back to ‘Mount McKinley,’ as it should be and where it belongs,” Trump said. spoke shortly after taking office, referring to the mountain in Alaska now known as Denali.
The name change announcement drew criticism from some quarters, but was quickly accepted by some Trump supporters.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), a former Trump rival in 2024, issued an executive order Monday addressing the winter weather event hitting the state this week, using the term “America’s Gulf.” He became one of the first civil servants. .
“As a low-pressure system moves across the U.S. Gulf and interacts with arctic air, it will bring widespread impact winter weather to North Florida starting Tuesday, January 21, 2025,” DeSantis’ order reads. It is written.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) also supported the change and publicly called on Apple to change the official name of its mapping platform.
“@tim_cook, I noticed Apple Maps still calls it Gulf of Mexico. I submitted a report through the app and thought you might want to know,” Crenshaw said in a statement to the company’s he wrote in a Tuesday post about X, which tagged the CEO.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico earlier this month, shortly after President Trump announced his intention to do so.
