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

Trump has nominated Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to the Department of Interior. Trump said Jan. 7 at his Mar-a-Lago club that he wanted to make the change because of a trade imbalance with Mexico,

President Trump said he will sign executive orders to change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and Mount Denali to Mount McKinley.

Gov. Ron DeSantis may have been the first official to use President's Trump's new name for the Gulf of Mexico in an official capacity.

Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it could be a brief experiment anyway.

Knoxville, on Wednesday states, "the Gulf of Mexico shall be referred to as the 'Gulf of America' in all official state maps, documents, educational materials, and communications prepared by state agencies.

President Donald Trump has been promising a flurry of executive action on Day 1, and even as he was being sworn in, there were executive orders already prepared for his signature.

A computer search of Florida laws shows at least 55 statutes include references to the Gulf of Mexico, while local-government ordinances also are tied to the traditional name.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it is deploying assets around maritime borders in support of President Donald Trump’s execute orders.

For years, as disputes over names on the map riled up nationalist passions in several parts of the world, US policymakers have watched warily, trying to stay out or to quietly encourage peace.

After President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the name change, a state representative introduced a bill to enshrine the change into state law.