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.

President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and the Alaska mountain Denali to Mount McKinley. What you need to know.

Donald Trump will order the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Mount Denali in his first hours as the 47th president, The Post has learned.

Trump has nominated Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to the Department of Interior. Trump said Jan. 7 at his Mar-a-Lago club that he wanted to make the change because of a trade imbalance with Mexico,

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said he will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” something that he has mentioned previously. “America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest,

On President Donald Trump's Inauguration Day, Governor Ron DeSantis made Florida the first state to reference the "Gulf of America" in an executive order when he issued a state of emergency due to cold weather.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already embraced the change. He cited the name in an executive order this week attributing inclement winter weather to “low pressure moving across the Gulf of America.”

Newsweek is tracking the flurry of executive actions President-elect Trump is expected to sign on Monday. Follow along here.

Hearst Newspapers conducted an AI-driven analysis to compare Donald Trump's 2025 speech to the one he delivered in 2017, and to Obama's and Biden's.

Hearst Newspapers conducted an AI-driven analysis to compare Donald Trump's 2025 speech to the one he delivered in 2017, and to Obama's and Biden's.

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