United States President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
Trump, who will commence his second term as U.S. president on Jan. 20, announced his plan to change the name of the ocean basin during rambling remarks at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump made the remarks about changing the Gulf’s name at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday.
“We have a massive [trade] deficit with Mexico, and we help Mexico a lot; they’re essentially run by the cartels. And can’t let that happen; Mexico’s really in trouble, a lot of trouble; very dangerous place,” he said.
Trump subsequently, in a roundabout way, announced his intention to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico, in which both the United States and Mexico have territorial waters.
“And we’re going to be announcing at a future date, pretty soon we’re going to change because we do most of the work there, and 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,” he said.
“That covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America, what a beautiful name, and it’s appropriate, it’s appropriate,” Trump said.
Economic Minister Marcelo Ebrard, attending a conference in Guadalajara Tuesday, asked by Mexican reporters to respond to Trump’s remarks about such a name change, responded briefly but definitively on the matter.
“If we saw each other in 30 years, the Gulf of Mexico will still be called the Gulf of Mexico,” he told reporters.
Can Trump actually change the Gulf’s name?
The Associated Press reported that Trump can “maybe” change the name of the Gulf of Mexico, which borders several U.S. and Mexican states. However, the news agency said that doing so is “not a unilateral decision, and other countries don’t have to go along.”
“The International Hydrographic Organization — of which both the United States and Mexico are members — works to ensure all the world’s seas, oceans and navigable waters are surveyed and charted uniformly, and also names some of them,” AP said.
“There are instances where countries refer to the same body of water or landmark by different names in their own documentation,” it added.
AP also said that it can be easier to make a name change “when a landmark or body of water is within a country’s boundaries.”
Perhaps changing the name of New Mexico to New America would be an easier option for Trump.
And Mexico could perhaps retaliate to any name change made by the 47th U.S. president by renaming the Gulf of California the Gulf of Baja California.
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Or, maybe El Trumpster will rename Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and California—all names derived from Spanish—and then start on all the towns and cities… If he was doing standup comedy, this would be laughable; but he’s not and this isn’t.
Trump is clearly in the same downward spiral as Biden, mentally. Hen has the attention span of a canary and we’ll likely see the 25th amendment invoked before the end of his term. But then, a President Vance?! Yuck!!
I think they got it right…” in a rambling speech”! Never seen suvh stupid grandstanding and garbage come out a person who is supposedly the leader of the Free World…disgraceful!?!
. . . well gosh, the gulf does happen to be in “North America,” just north of “Central America,” and somewhat further from “South America”. . . of which these nations do refer to themselves as “Americans” . . .
. . . so there’s that.
Logic of MAGA shines again
You got that straight!
Watching PBS NewsHour tonight walk through each of Trump’s clownish statements was almost like watching Weeknd Update on Saturday Night Live. If I didn’t know it was ‘real’ news I’d have sworn it was written by SNL
He’s making himself look like a delusional fool, and saying he’s going to do things he can’t do, setting himself up to fail. And we all saw the cognitive decline during the campaign — it’s not like he got cured by winning the election. I bet his handlers are constantly strategizing on how to minimize his public appearances.
I would expect SNL to do skits like this for sure, and there will be more “fodder” for the writers to come, no president or elected official is off limits, regardless of party, the funnier the original statement, the more funnier and clever the SNL writers will be. It’s fun to watch SNL and the late night talk shows have fun with whatever any government is doing. Plenty of material everywhere. All we can do is laugh and wait it out.
“because we do most of the work there, and it’s ours”
It sounds like he’s inspired by China in the South China Sea and wants to assert sovereignty over everything right up to other countries’ shores. Ugh, lo siento, compadres (and remember almost half of us voted against him but lies and idiocracy backed by billionaires swamped us).
Trump also said he would rename the adjacent Salish Sea and Straight of Georgia the MAGA Straight, and Vancouver Island would be named Ivanka Isle. We need to stop the tyranny!
Trump should change his name to JACKASS. Everyone in the world would know who it is…..
Trump : “We have a massive [trade] deficit with Mexico, and we help Mexico a lot; they’re essentially run by the cartels. And can’t let that happen; Mexico’s really in trouble, a lot of trouble; very dangerous place,” he said.
Mexico is so very dangerous that 2 million Americans live there in peace and quiet while MAGA nuts run around Walmart and schools, shooting innocent children and people with no purpose , enhancing their self ego, with AK 15’s.
It’s NOT appropriate, it’s NOT appropriate! 🤨
The idiot sewer rat that trump is….thinks he is some autocrat or king. But he is not. Almost everything he announces he will do never happens. My theory is that he’s a fool puppet of the un-righteous GOP Sewer and greedy CEOs. They let him, probably encourage him to, spout his foolish ideas to deflect attention on their rape of America.