Donald Trump will order the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico

The executive order would direct the Secretary of the Interior to change the name to “Gulf of America” ​​for use on official maps and throughout the federal government, according to New York Postwhich first reported the news. Trump has nominated the Republican governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum, for the Department of the Interior.

Trump said Jan. 7 at his Mar-a-Lago club that he wanted to make the change because of a trade imbalance with Mexico, illegal immigration into the United States at the southern border and concerns about drugs entering the United States. He also called the American Gulf “a beautiful name.”

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Mexico’s president, pointed at a January 8 press conference to the United States on a centuries-old map and stated, “Obviously the Gulf of Mexico is recognized by the United Nations… but why don’t we call this ‘Mexican America’?”