President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” a move he called “appropriate” and criticized Mexico for migrants crossing the U.S. southern border.
Trump made the comments during a free-form Mar-a-Lago news conference. not excluded Bringing Greenland and the Panama Canal under U.S. control through military or economic coercion. He will take office within 13 days.
President Trump said, “I will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Beautiful Ring of the Gulf of America.” “It covers a huge territory, the Gulf of America. What a beautiful name. And it’s appropriate. It’s appropriate. And Mexico should stop letting millions of people flow into our country.”
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, an ally of President Trump, said she would introduce legislation to that effect Thursday morning.
“The American people are introducing legislation to protect and secure our maritime waterways for commerce, and our military protects our region from foreign military threats,” he said in a statement. Ta. “It’s our bay. Its rightful name is American Bay, and the whole world should call it that.”
It was not immediately clear whether Trump has the authority to change the name for use in the United States, but pressure from both Trump and Congressional Republicans could change the U.S. government’s reference. There is sex.
The Gulf is a basin and marginal sea off the Atlantic Ocean that stretches for thousands of miles along the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. Although Mexico and the United States have approximately the same number of miles of coastline along the Gulf Coast, Mexico’s coastline along the Gulf Coast is about 90 miles longer than the U.S. states of Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama all have Gulf Coast coastlines .
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According to the National Center for Environmental Information, within about half of the Bay, the United States has sovereign rights over natural resource exploration, management, and jurisdiction to the extent permitted by international law. Its boundaries are shown on the map above.
If President Trump formally changes the U.S.’s reference to the “American Gulf,” there is no obligation for other countries to follow suit.
