The news broke shortly before he was sworn in Monday morning, and Trump confirmed it during his inaugural address. The order will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and Mount Denali to Mount McKinley, which was the official name recognized by the federal government from 1917 until 2015.
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)!
“If we are going to rename things … this is the move,” Abbott wrote on X.
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.
Among the first executive orders signed by President Trump was an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America."
President-elect Donald Trump announced this week that the U.S. is going to rename the Gulf of Mexico once he takes office. No, this isn’t an Onion headline. I know. It’s really hard to separate the made-for-laughs headlines of fictitious Trump ...
Why stop at Gulf of America? Our maps are full of foreign names and languages — including a Palm Beach resort with a Spanish name.
Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds, ports, fish and shellfish, its deep pockets of oil and gas far beneath a basin floor of crashed, tectonic plates. “This superb ...
The president issued an executive order to change the name of the body of water, but its power may be limited beyond the United States.
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
President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak Denali, would be changed back to Mount McKinley.