President Trump speaks to the press in the Oval Office next to a map of what he has renamed the "Gulf of America" on March 26. The administration has denied the Associated Press access to such events because it calls the body of water the "Gulf of Mexico," even as it acknowledges his preferred designation. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on Feb. 25, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Trump administration has blocked the Associated Press from covering several of the president's events because it continues to refer to the body of water between Mexico and Florida as the Gulf of Mexico. Under President Trump's direction, the U.S. has renamed it the Gulf of America. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A poster with a map captioned "Gulf of America" with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2025. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption
From left: AI art, a movie star, an embattled mayor. Christie's Images Ltd. 2025; Michael Loccisano/Getty Images; Yuki Iwamura/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump speaks to the press before signing a proclamation renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America aboard Air Force One en route to New Orleans, Louisiana, on Feb. 9, 2025. Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Sept. 2005: Hurricane Rita enters the Gulf of Mexico — or Gulf of America, as Mississippi House Rep. Stephen Holland would say. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio hide caption