Overview
- In a Jan. 20 briefing, the president said he had considered calling the waterway the "Gulf of Trump" and claimed he might be "killed" for it before stressing he was joking.
- He defended the rebranding by asserting the United States has 92% of the shoreline, a figure reported as exaggerated in coverage noting the gulf is more evenly shared.
- The White House acted last year to change the federal designation to "Gulf of America", and Google and Apple Maps now display the name.
- Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has rejected the U.S. renaming, stating it remains the Gulf of Mexico for Mexico and the world.
- The latest remarks drew fresh criticism on television and online, with some Fox News viewers deriding the idea after the briefing aired.