For nearly half a century, there’s been little thought about the name Congress gave to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council — until now. On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an order to rename the waterbody to the “Gulf of America” on federal agency maps, contracts, and other documents and communications.

Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it could be a brief experiment anyway.

If you said “introduce a resolution to require the state to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America in official state documents,” congratulations, you’re as thirsty for approval as Rep. Aaron Pilkington (R-Knoxville)!

An Arkansas state representative filed a resolution Wednesday to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.”

House Republicans are pushing a new bill to limit birthright citizenship to babies born with at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

The post included a link to the New York Post, which reports it has learned that Trump will call for the Gulf of Mexico to become the Gulf of America. Denali will return to Mount McKinley — President Barack Obama changed the name of the continent’s highest mountain in 2015.

“If we are going to rename things … this is the move,” Abbott wrote on X.

Among the first executive orders signed by President Trump was an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America."

Despite burying any animosity during the majority of the ceremony, the former secretary of state was seen holding back a laugh moments after President Trump's swearing-in

Among the first executive orders signed by President Donald Trump was an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the newly named "Gulf of America." "President Trump is bringing common sense to government and renewing the pillars of American civilization," the newly inaugurated president's executive order said.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has an answer for President Donald Trump about his idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America:” he can call it whatever he wants on the American part of it.