President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the U.S. in the coming weeks will be renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.”
Trump made the announcement during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago while speaking about trade deficits that the U.S. has with its southern neighbor.
“We have a massive deficit with Mexico and we help Mexico a lot,” Trump said. “They’re essentially run by the cartels. And we can’t let that happen. Mexico is really in trouble. A lot of trouble. A very dangerous place.”
Trump said that at a future date, which he said would be “pretty soon,” that his administration will be “changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.”
“The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name!” Trump said. “And it’s appropriate. It’s appropriate.”
Trump said that the U.S. has the right to do it because “we do most of…
