Trump says he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. Can he do that?
It’s his latest suggestion to redraw the map of the Western Hemisphere. Trump has repeatedly referred to Canada as the “51st State,” demanded that Denmark consider ceding Greenland, and called for Panama to return the Panama Canal.
He probably can, if he insists, call it the Gulf of America. But nobody else has to follow suit.
Imagine the schoolbooks and the maps.
Still, it's not the first time.
In 2012, a member of the Mississippi Legislature proposed a bill to rename portions of the gulf that touch that state’s beaches “Gulf of America,” a move the bill author later referred to as a “joke.”
Who's laughing now?
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