When Google announced it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, many Mexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted sigh.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has an answer for President Donald Trump about his idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America:” he can call it whatever he wants on the American part of it.

We don’t think it’s going to happen really,” she said during her daily morning news conference on Wednesday, just days before Trump’s threatened tariffs might begin. “And if it happens, we also have our plan.

Mexican president says President Trump can call the gulf whatever he wants but that the world will still call it the Gulf of Mexico.

Columnist Mark Patinkin ponders new names for Rhode Island and it's cities and towns as the Gulf of Mexico gets renamed.

WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post ...

Though U.S. maps will reflect Trump's new name for the body of water, the rest of the world will continue calling it the Gulf of Mexico

Changing maps to say "Gulf of America" doesn't change history, and likely won't change what most people call the massive basin

Still, if we do want to rename the Gulf of Mexico, our best bet would be to give it a name that sounds so indisputably cool that everyone would agree, territorial issues aside, that’s just a darn good name for the thing. In the interest of global harmony, here are some suggestions for what to call the Gulf of Mexico going forward.

Following President Trump’s order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, at least in the United States, Mexicans and Cubans expressed annoyance, defiance, confusion and even amusement.

Change, which will only be visible to US users, comes after president signs executive order renaming body of water