# Gulf of America

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gulf-of-america/1014515>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 19, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gulf-of-america/1014515 "2025-02-19T17:19:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gulf-of-america/1014515/1 "2025-02-19T17:19:00Z")

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I was just perusing Google maps and I noticed that they are now calling the Gulf Of Mexico, Gulf of America.

Wow.

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gulf-of-america/1014515/2 "2025-02-19T17:22:42Z")

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I presume that virtually nobody outside the USA is going along with this; what made Google jump on the Trump bandwagon?

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gulf-of-america/1014515/3 "2025-02-19T17:24:07Z")

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gulf-of-america/1014515/4 "2025-02-19T17:24:38Z")

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Please see here:

> [@The "Gulf of America"? Wth? Can you just change the name of a body of water?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gulf-of-america-wth-can-you-just-change-the-name-of-a-body-of-water/1012683):
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> Trump is insane. Yeah, old news. You can’t just do that, can you? You can’t just buy Greenland. Can you? Who’s gonna pay for it?