Donald Trump declared on February 9 as the day of the Gulf of America

The US president, Donald Trumphas declared on February 9 as Gulf Day of America to reinforce the change of name Tax to the Gulf of Mexico.

“Today I have the great honor of recognizing the February 9, 2025 as the first day of the Gulf of America in History”Trump said in a statement published by the White House.

On January 20, the day of his investiture as president of the United States, Trump signed the Executive Order 14172To restore the names that honor the greatness of the United States that orders to rename the American continental platform corresponding to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and even the maritime border with Mexico and Cuba as Gulf of America.

This area “has long been an integral good of our thriving nation and remains an indelible part of the United States,” according to the executive order.

This same Sunday Trump has made his first visit to the Gulf of America since he was renamed. “My administration recovers American pride in the history of American greatness” and that is why it proposes “to commemorate this transcendental occasion” with the celebration of the Gulf of America.

“I urge all authorities and officials and all people in the United States to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies and activities”he has appealed.

Maybe, but It is not a unilateral decisionand other countries do not have to accept it.

The International Hydrographic Organization, to which both the United States and Mexico belong, is responsible for ensuring that all seas, oceans and navigable roads on the planet have a uniform evaluation and cartography, it is also responsible for giving name to some of these bodies water. There are cases in which countries refer to the same water body or some other emblematic place with different names in their respective documents.

It can be easier when an emblematic place or body of water is within the limits of a country. In 2015, then President Barack Obama approved an order from the Department of the Interior to change the name of Mount McKinley, the highest summit in North America, to Denali, a measure that Trump has also said that he wants to reverse.

Shortly after Trump’s statements, representative Marjorie Taylor Greene declared in an interview with Podcaster Benny Johnson who will turn instructions to her staff to Write a bill to change the name of the Gulf of Mexicoa measure that, he said, would be responsible for finance new maps and administrative policy throughout the federal government.

The body of water has been named for more than four centuries, an original determination that is believed was taken from an American indigenous city of “Mexico.”

No. In 2012, a Mississippi state legislator proposed a bill to change the name of the gulf portions that touch that state as “Gulf of the United States”a measure to which the author of the initiative later referred as a “joke.” This proposal, which was sent to a commission, was rejected.

Two years before, comedian Stephen Colbert had joked in his program that, after the huge oil spill of Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, he should change his name to “Gulf of the United States”, because “we break it, we bought it ”

(With information from EP and AP)