The name changes from the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America” started rolling in the US on Monday, only a month later President Donald Trump announced his intention to improve the name.
On Monday, the FAA sent a charts that confirmed that his systems were busy updating the name, in addition to updating the newly mentioned Mount McKinley in Alaska, previously known as Denali.
“Keep in mind that the FAA is busy updating our data and graphs to change the name of the Mexico wave To the Gulf of America and a name change from Denali to Mount McKinley. This will be aimed at the next publication cycle, “was the notification.
“This card knowledge implements President Trump’s direction in Executive Order 14172,” restoring names that honor the American greatness, “that the names are changed.”
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Google Maps started referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. (AP/Google Maps)
On January 7, Trump announced that the Gulf of Mexico would be given a new name and sign an executive order in which the decision was completed weeks later.
“We are going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico in the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring. That covers a lot of territory,” Trump said Tuesday. “The wave of America. What a beautiful name. And it is appropriate.”
The decision was well received on Monday by users of social media, who started to notice Google Maps that are implementing the changes.
“Google Maps finally recognizes the Gulf of America!” An X user wrote. “Isn’t it nice?”
“I hate Google, but TBH, mine says that Gulf of America completely zoomed out,” said another. “And boy it is glorious.”
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On the way to Super Bowl Lix, President Trump signed an order in which on 9 February was explained as “Gulf of America Day.” (Daniel Torok/Chief White House photographer)
“Google Maps Bows to Trump,” wrote another commentator.
The changes also come after Trump had signed a proclamation on Sunday that stated on 9 February as “Gulf or America Day”.
Trump flew over the water on his way to Super Bowl Lix in New Orleans when he signed the presidential order.
“Air Force One is currently in international waters, the first time in history that flies over the recently renamed wave of America,” wrote the White House in an X post.
In the proclamation, Trump wrote that he took the action “partly because, as stated in that order,” the area that is previously known as the Gulf of Mexico, has long been an integral asset for our once growing nation and an indelible part of America.
President Donald Trump is pumping his fist while he walks to Air Force One last week on a joint andrews in Maryland. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty images)
Google previously confirmed that it was planning to update the name of the Golf in accordance with the local authorities.
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“We have received a few questions about naming within Google Maps,” Google said in an x ​​post. “We have a long -term practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources … Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names. That also applies here.”
Stepheny Price of Fox News Digital and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
