Trump vowed to change the 456-year-old name of the Gulf of Mexico to the 'Gulf of America' as soon as he entered the White House - saying 'we do most of the work there, it’s ours'
President Donald Trump has been promising a flurry of executive action on Day 1, and even as he was being sworn in, there were executive orders already prepared for his signature.
Trump’s plans to rename the gulf appear to be part of a broader offensive against Mexico, calling the nation "very dangerous" and "in a lot of trouble," citing drug trafficking and illegal immigration. However, most drug trafficking from Mexico is aimed at fulfilling consumer demand from Americans.
Claudia Sheinbaum's statement comes after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to officially rename the body of water
US President Donald Trump announced plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico and claimed America would reclaim the Panama Canal.
Wresting back control of the Panama Canal, renaming the Gulf of Mexico and exiting from the Paris Agreement were three of the shipping takeaways in the first hours following the inauguration of Donald Trump yesterday as the 47th president of the United States.
Nothing new for Trump. It might not be as egregious as, say, talking about barging into Greenland, capturing the Panama Canal, or making Canada the 51st state. But claiming that you’re renaming the Gulf of Mexico has the kind of casual belligerence ...
President-elect Donald Trump plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” in one of his first executive orders, ABC News reports. Calling it a “beautiful improvement,” Trump announced the change during a press conference at Mar-A-Lago.
OCEARCH has tracked Crystal up the eastern seaboard to New Brunswick, back down around the Florida Keys and into the Gulf of Mexico.
The president-elect has also suggested that Canada should join the United States and proposed during a news conference on Tuesday that the Gulf of Mexico should become the Gulf of America ...
He views Mexico as a source of unwanted migration, drugs and Chinese goods, Canada as a liberal dystopia and Greenland as a weak link. Some of his remarks are bluster. The Gulf of Mexico, he says, should be renamed the Gulf of America.