It's official: Gulf of America name change goes into effect
By: Trevor Hughes (USA TODAY)
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It's official: The Gulf of Mexico is no more (at least in the United States, anyway).
Workers at the federal Board on Geographic Names have formally changed the name to the Gulf of America per one of President Donald Trump's first executive orders. The change doesn't affect what other countries call it, and Mexico's president has promised to ignore it and asked others to do the same.
Trump on Sunday flew in Air Force 1 over the Gulf while attending the Super Bowl, and declared the day as the "first-ever Gulf of America Day." Traveling with the president, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum shared on social media an official USGS map image showing the new name.
While some U.S agencies immediately began using the new name upon Trump's Jan. 20 order, it's now effective across all the federal government because it's been changed in the centralized Geographic Names Information System.
Google has also updated its maps. Apple ignored a request for comment for whether it would honor the change, and had not swapped in the new name by 5 p.m. on Monday.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo joked that she's going to start calling the United States "Mexican America" in retaliation. International practice is to use whatever place name is preferred by the country a specific geographic feature belongs to, but the gulf touches Mexico, the United States, Cuba and several other island nations.
There is precedent for different names for the same places: A contested chain off islands off the coast of South America is known by the British as the Falkland Islands, while Argentina, which also claims the islands, calls them the Islas Malvinas. Argentina invaded the islands in 1982, sparking a vicious two-month battle won by the British.
Also changed is the name of tallest mountain in North America, which is again Mount McKinley to the federal government. While Alaska officials long deemed the mountain Denali, it wasn't called by that by federal officials until President Barack Obama aligned it in 2015.
Trump called Obama's action an "affront to President McKinley's life, his achievements, and his sacrifice."
In renaming Denali, Trump specifically highlighted McKinley's use of tariffs ‒ a Trump favorite ‒ and his "expansion of territorial gains." McKinley, a Republican, added Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and Hawaii to the United States in various forms.
Trump has said he wants to annex Greenland, suggested that Canada should become the 51st state, and threatened to invade Panama to take back the Panama Canal.
Although the mountain has been renamed, the national park that encloses it remains the same: Denali National Park and Preserve.
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Yeah! we solved a problem that never existed. will the next president change every name back? or leave it? and will we be updating maps every 4/8 years?
Fuck Trump.
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I don’t really ever change names. It’s still the sears tower in Chicago.
looks like I’ll be right for a lot of things every four years or so.
This name changing is silly and that football team that plays around Washington still gets called the Redskins
It’s not that far from Ft Rucker.
Was that named after the Darius one?
Nope, it has been and always will be the Gulf of Mexico. Why further confuse kids who can't find America on a map? (Hint: On maps, it's named the United States.)
IMO it was dumb to change it and it is dumb to get bent out of shape over it.
BYW The tappan zee bridge was renamed the Mario Cuomo bridge in 2017. It is still the tappan zee to me
Speaking of renaming things .
it crossed my feed that Sec Hegseth has ordered that Ft Liberty is to be renamed Ft Bragg again .
Now before the virtue signalers have a conniption , it is NOT being renamed after the former confederate general as it was before . But a decorated WW2 PFC Roland L Bragg who served in the battle of the bulge .
Lol. Did they pick the pfc's name out of a hat?
LOL i think his parents gave him that name frankly , just so happens he has the same surname as the other guy .
and it is within military tradition of naming forts after military members , now that honor going to a PFC is something new to me .
it did bring to mind the movie the green berets , and the problem a character had about naming something after him , Provos privvy .
Strangely you could be correct—a red MAGA hat would be appropriate.
Probably just named after Trump
If the fort there was not previously named Bragg , after a racist confederate general, would they be changing the name to Bragg now? I hate to disenchant Maga, but some of us are not as stupid as they are.
I guess some people here are afraid of the truth
To many that were stationed there , it was always and always will be Ft Bragg, the liberty name never really caught on , if im reading the comment section of the article correctly . even with those currently stationed there .
The new name change is not changing it from some other person but to that of someone that actually was stationed there and was decorated . So there is no disrespect in my view .
Roland is not Braxton . the only connection is in the same last name .
i checked the guy out , and he isnt even a southerner , and came from humble beginnings from whats on line .
If his last name is a problem , then in my view , its your problem alone to deal with because like i said , Roland wasnt Braxton . two entirely different people .
You are a smart guy I know that you know what the word disingenuous means. Anyone claiming that the fort is not being renamed Bragg because it previously was named Bragg is being disingenuous on steroids. PFC Braggs worthiness to have anything named after him is irrelevant in this circumstance
Like i said , i checked it out , albeit , online , but he was on a list of names kept by the pentagon of potential names for bases . who am i to second guess who the pentagon or the Sec Def thinks worthy ?
Am i being disingenuous? nope , i just think its a happy coinkydink that it happened as it did .
this is america, you can think anything you want.
Coincidence? hilarious.
Simple correction.
It's spelled America
Now if you ask me if i think Hegseth did it as a high hard one to a particular group? i think there are grounds from what i have read about him , that possibility is definitely in the mix .
what is your rationale for having U.S. military installations named after traitors? Is there a Ft. Benedict Arnold ?
It was named after general Bragg originally as a sign of reconciliation. We name helicopters after Apaches for the same reason.
Is Roland L Bragg a traitor ? I didnt catch that in his write up. it stated much the opposite actually .
because that is the premise of what i initially posted about the name change .
i even pointed out that the base was NOT being renamed after Braxton Bragg, but an entirely different person .
As you said , its America , one can believe what they want . your welcome to believe what you want as well , its just your ability to influence what others think , lets just say its left ..... wanting as of late . Not that you really had any influence over me anyway .
when it was named after Braxton Bragg , yes , but the current name change is after an entirely different person
I don't recall the Apaches being traitors.
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I know you dont really believe it is a coincidence, so you are disingenuously clowning the topic. Not my fault or problem.
sure seems to be.
so hegseth found someone on the naming list with the same last name, who by the way is a better person to name the base after IMO , and as predicted someone has had a fit with it , i just didnt say WHO i thought would have the fit . you havent let me down yet .
Right now your reminding me of an old hunting hound thats blind in one eye , cant see out of the other and just bit a skunks ass and got pissed in the mouth and is now trying to shake the taste out of it .
and since the renaming is not after one BRAXTON Bragg, but an entirely different person who was airborne , was decorated by the US Army, in battle , frankly your opinion of why he was chosen is moot and about as insignificant as a wart on a fleas ass on said old hunting hound
so yeah you DO have a problem , no ones listening to you , no one cares and no one will be influenced by you . in that respect you like the blind hound that barks at every little thing . just a minor annoyance
When it comes to me ? you dont know shit from shinola , with the exception of the fact i seldom agree with your point of view .
thats because i think its a shitty view angle .
Your comments about this are fucking disingenuous. Im finishèd with this.
Brilliant work around. I would have probably just changed it back and said it was stupid to change it to begin with. The name was fine for 100 years until the woke fools decided to be outraged and insulted by it.
Hopefully some statues that were taken down find their way back.
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It is.,
Have you noticed that these virtue signaling idiots didn't rename Fort Bragg, California? It's named after the same person Fort Bragg, NC was named after.
i did not , interesting .
My Google Maps has the change. My Apple Maps does not.
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The rest of the world and likely a good chunk of the USA will just ignore the change
to me it will always simply be "the gulf " no America , no Mexico , no nothing , simply the gulf .
To me it will always be the place I swear some Man o wars were watching me walk down the beach in Galveston.
LOL for me ? the golden age of piracy and a quart of west indies trade goods ( rum ) .
ARRgh matey .