Trump officially renames the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America

It is now official: President Donald Trump has renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. 

And, in addition to this, he has named February 9, 2025, "Gulf of America Day."

Trump, according to the New York Post, did so just before attending the Super Bowl on Sunday.

In fact, Trump signed the executive order aboard Air Force One, while flying of the Gulf of America.

"I call upon public officials..."

The entire proclamation can be found here.

It, in part, reads:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 9, 2025, as Gulf of America Day.  I call upon public officials and all the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.

This is the document Trump signed aboard Air Force One while flying over the Gulf of America.

The Post reports:

Just as Trump was signing the order, Air Force One’s captain invited passengers to look out the window and view the “Gulf of America” under its new name “for the first time in history.”

Happy Super Bowl Sunday and Happy Gulf of America Day 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/vHy4P3KKs1

— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) February 9, 2025

Why the change?

In the proclamation, the White House explains why it is that Trump made the name change.

It reads, in part:

I took this action in part because, as stated in that Order, “[t]he area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico has long been an integral asset to our once burgeoning Nation and has remained an indelible part of America.”

The Post reports that "Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said that as of Sunday’s declaration, map providers such as Apple and Google would begin updating their information to reflect the new name."

Here is more from the proclamation: 

On January 20, 2025, I signed Executive Order 14172 (“Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness”).  Among other actions, that Executive Order required the Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 364 through 364f, to “take all appropriate actions to rename as the ‘Gulf of America’ the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the State of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico.”

It remains to be seen what the future holds for the Gulf of America Day.