The big “Gulf of Mexico” scrub-out has begun at NOAA.
The agency on Thursday issued a final rule “to amend existing regulations to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America,” striking another blow to the centuries-old name referencing the 600,000-square-mile sea that borders five U.S. states, Mexico and Cuba.
But try as it might, the Trump administration cannot fully erase the Gulf of Mexico moniker from the nation’s business. Congress would have to formally substitute “America” for “Mexico” in a half-dozen landmark bills that bear the Gulf of Mexico name.
On the first day of his second presidency, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” officially renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
