The United Kingdom has no plans to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” and boy, is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) pissed. Although President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the federal government change the name, it doesn’t appear as if Britain will follow suit. In fact, the Telegraph reported Thursday that Britain “will continue to call the body of water by its current name unless the new title ordered by Mr. Trump gains widespread usage in English.” The paper said official British maps will not adopt the name change unless ”‘Gulf of America’ becomes the most commonly used name for it by English speakers.” It added that officials “believe that is not likely for some time, if at all.”
According to The Telegraph, Britain will continue to call the body of water by its current name unless the new title ordered by Mr Trump gains widespread usage in English. The US president instructed the US Board on Geographic Names to change the gulf’s name within hours of taking office on Monday, after arguing that the ocean basin was “ours” and the US did “most of the work there”. The name will change on official maps in the US within 30 days. Some navigation apps, including Google Maps, are under pressure from Republicans to change it immediately. However, Mr Trump cannot change the name used by other countries or by international organizations because the Gulf is an international body of water with coastlines in the US, Mexico, and Cuba.
The UK will continue to call the body of water the Gulf of Mexico unless Donald Trump’s plan to rename it catches on in English-speaking countries. Britain has no plans to along with Donald Trump’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, The Independent understands. Amid a slew of executive orders he signed on his return to the Whitehouse, the new president used executive order 14170 to “restore names that honour American greatness”. “The 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 order states. While the US can choose how to label geographical features on its coastline, the UK will continue its existing process for labelling landmarks and regions, The Independent understands.
