While the Gulf of America will be applied to federal references, other nations will not be required to recognize the name.

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

The Trump administration's Interior Department said on Friday it had officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and the Alaskan peak Denali to Mount McKinley.

The Department of the Interior says they're moving quickly to implement President Donald Trump's executive order to rename Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico.

President Donald Trump has officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, as well as changed the name of Denali to Mount McKinely.

FILE PHOTO: Waves crash on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, after newly sworn-in U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, in Boca del Rio, Veracruz state, Mexico January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Yahir Ceballos/File Photo

For some crazy reason it’s having a renaissance in all my conversations. I can’t stop trotting it out while on the phone or out in public. "Chilly along the Gulf of Mexico," I’ll chip in as I pass someone in a store.

The Trump administration has officially implemented name changes for Alaska's Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico, as requested by the new president.

Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes "southerly down the thread of the main stream of said Suwannee River to the Gulf of Mexico; thence along said Gulf of Mexico, including the waters of said gulf within the jurisdiction of the State of Florida, to the mouth of the Steinhatchee River."

President Trump's executive order renames the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, cast your vote on which name you prefer.

Backed by loyalists and tech billionaires, Donald Trump swept into office with a blizzard of executive orders to reshape American politics.