In a news conference at his Florida home, Trump said he wanted to change the name of the Gulf "pretty soon." A Mississippi lawmaker already tried.

Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

More than a decade ago, a Democrat floated the idea as part of a rebuke of anti-immigrant legislation proposed in Mississippi.

This month during a rambling news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate, United States President-elect Donald Trump announced his latest vision for revising the map of the world: “We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,

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In an almost offhand digression Tuesday, president-elect Donald Trump idly mentioned he was going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

President-elect Donald Trump plans to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Will the world follow? What will maps say if he does?

While social media users debated whether Trump was being serious about the proposal, others wondered if such a change was even possible. Whether or not it could logistically happen — which CBS News reports is possible within the U.

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It's not the first time renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America has come up. In 2012, Democrat state Rep. Steve Holland of Mississippi proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf ...

“If we are going to rename things … this is the move,” Abbott wrote on X.

What's in a name? President-elect Donald Trump held a presser on Tuesday where he rambled off many statements — but one that stuck out was he plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America."