Overview
- At a rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, Trump said he is targeting one ocean and one river for new names and suggested calling the Atlantic or Pacific the “Trump Ocean” or “Ocean of the Americas.”
- He said he will not change the names of the Hudson River or the Mississippi River and cited admiration for Henry Hudson and political support in Mississippi as reasons.
- Trump stated his goal is to complete another ocean and river renaming before he leaves office in 2028.
- The administration has already used new names for bodies of water, including the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” and Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” and Google and Apple map apps were reported to reflect those changes.
- The reported renamings have been pushed as domestic branding and have diplomatic implications, since U.S. federal usage of a name does not require foreign governments to adopt it and at least one change followed a collapsed Canada–U.S. trade deal.