President-elect Trump will sign executive orders renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali after his inauguration on Monday.
The next Interior secretary will also have 30 days to rename the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America, President Donald Trump ordered Monday.
President-elect Donald Trump said in his inaugural address that he plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico and the Denali peak in Alaska. The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the Gulf of America, and Denali,
What’s in a name? A lot, according to President Donald Trump, especially when it comes to putting America first. In his inaugural speech on Monday, Trump repeated his wish to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
Shortly after being sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump signed a bunch of executive orders in the Oval Office.
President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali, would be changed back to Mount McKinley. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president on Monday,
In one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump used an executive order on Monday to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Denali in Alaska. To start, Trump re-named the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” following through on a promise he made during his campaign. The body of water borders Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
While a name change for the Gulf of Mexico could be applied for federal references, other nations have no obligation to follow suit.
The executive order will direct the secretary of the interior to change the name to "Gulf of America” for use on official maps and throughout the federal government, according to the New York Post, which first reported the news. Trump has nominated Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to the Department of Interior.
President Donald Trump is set to name two geographical entities. Among Trump’s first executive orders Monday is to rename the
As president, Trump can take the action to rename the body of water, although other countries don’t have to adopt the new name.