President Donald Trump celebrated his first flight over the just lately renamed Gulf of America as his administration continues to take steps to rebrand the physique of water lengthy often called the Gulf of Mexico.
In a presidential proclamation printed Sunday, Trump acknowledged Feb. 9 as “Gulf of America Day.” The declaration got here as Trump traveled to Tremendous Bowl LIX in New Orleans, Louisiana.
An govt order Trump signed on his first day in workplace ordered the U.S. Secretary of the Inside to “take all acceptable actions to rename as ‘the Gulf of America’ the U.S. Continental Shelf space bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the State of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and increasing to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba within the space previously named because the Gulf of Mexico.”
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Within the Jan. 20 govt order, Trump stated the gulf is “an integral asset to our as soon as burgeoning Nation” that has “remained an indelible a part of America.”
Highlighting his journey to New Orleans as his “first go to to the Gulf of America since its renaming,” Trump cited the event as a chance “for our nice Nation to return collectively and commemorate this momentous event and the renaming of the Gulf of America.”
Trump urged “public officers and all of the folks of the USA to watch “Gulf of America Day” with “acceptable packages, ceremonies, and actions.”
Trump signed the proclamation aboard Air Pressure One Sunday because it flew over the physique of water alongside Secretary of the Inside Doug Burgum and a map of the U.S. labeling the physique of water because the “Gulf of America.”
Burgum stated he directed “the U.S. Geologic Survey, who’s accountable for the database, which is the Geographic Names Informational System,” to begin referring to the Gulf of Mexico because the Gulf of America.
“Our crew is asking all of the map suppliers — so Google Maps, Apple Maps, all of the map folks,” he added. “That change will take impact this afternoon to Gulf of America.”
As of Monday afternoon, each Google Maps and Apple Maps nonetheless consult with the Gulf of America because the Gulf of Mexico. The Related Press will proceed to consult with the water physique because the Gulf of Mexico whereas recognizing the identify Trump has chosen. Worldwide our bodies and different nations would not have to acknowledge the identify change.
Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., stated throughout a speech on the U.S. Senate Flooring final month that he “would comply with work with Donald Trump on renaming the Gulf of Mexico provided that he first agrees to work with [Democrats] on an precise plan to decrease prices for People.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., launched a invoice final month that orders “any reference in a legislation, map, regulation, doc, paper, or different document of the USA to the Gulf of Mexico” to “be deemed to be a reference to the ‘Gulf of America.'”
The measure additionally directs the pinnacle of every federal company to “replace every doc and map of the Federal company in accordance with the renaming.” As of Monday, Greene’s laws has secured the assist of 15 cosponsors, all Republicans.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Submit. He might be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
