The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed a decree so that on February 9 of each year, as of this 2025, he is declared as the day of the Gulf of America.
It was during the flight on the Gulf of Mexico aboard the Air Force One and directed to the Superdome of New Orleans, where the Super Bowl Lix will witness live between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles, which the White House president gave The announcement before the media that accompanied him.
Under the slogan “Make America Great Again” Trump meets one of the promises he made during the inauguration as president of the United States, in which he said: “We will soon be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and We will restore the name of the great president William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where he should be and where he belongs. ”
Despite the refusal of the Government of Mexico by pointing out that the name of Gulf of Mexico has been established for many years and even has official recognition of institutions such as the United Nations Organization (UN), the United States insists on changing the name.
In fact, companies such as Google have agreed to change the name and in maps for the United States already appears as a Gulf of America, the same case that in all official documents and publications of the US government where reference is already made to the Gulf of America instead from Gulf of Mexico.
