The U.S. Department of the Interior has renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America
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- The U.S. Department of the Interior has renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America
The U.S. Department of the Interior, in accordance with a recent executive order by President Donald Trump, has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. This was announced on Friday, January 24, in an official statement of the department.
"As directed by the President, the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be called the Gulf of America, and the highest peak in North America will once again bear the name of Mount McKinley. These changes reaffirm the nation's commitment to preserving the distinguished heritage of the United States," the statement reads.
The Board on Geographic Names is working expeditiously to update the official federal nomenclature in the Geographic Names Information System, it added.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has already commented on the decision to rename the bay. According to her, the gulf will be called American only on the continental shelf of the United States. For the whole world it is still the Gulf of Mexico, she emphasized.
Earlier, on January 20, President Trump, who took office after taking the oath of office, promised to return the Panama Canal to the United States and to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the American Gulf.
Earlier in the day, Trump took the oath of office in the Capitol rotunda, becoming the 47th president of the United States. Along with him, Vice President Jay Dee Vance was sworn in. This is Trump's second presidential term, the first time he was the American leader in 2017-2021. In the inaugural speech, the new US president announced the beginning of the "golden age of America".
Immediately after taking office, Trump signed more than 200 new decrees. Among them, the introduction of a state of emergency on the border with Mexico and the inclusion of drug cartels in the list of terrorist organizations.
