Summary
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is pushing legislation to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, arguing the U.S. military and taxpayers secure the region, making it “our gulf.”
Greene shared the proposal text on social media, calling for federal agencies to adopt the name change.
She linked the renaming effort to combatting Mexican cartel activity in the Gulf.
Trump supported the name change in a 2024 executive order, but there has been no indication of international adoption, including by the UK.
We don’t call North Korea the “DPRK” or “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”. We don’t call Taiwan the “Republic of China”. Heck, we call football “soccer”.
Sometimes, people have different names for different things, and that’s OK. If Trump wants to waste time and effort renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America to stroke his own ego, that’s his choice. That doesn’t mean everybody else has to play ball. He can’t use military might to force other countries to adopt the name change, just like North Korea can’t force us to refer to them as the DPRK.
My bigger thought is what kind of geopolitical laughing stock the US is going to look like four years from now. I mean we’re 5 days into his term and he’s already promising to create an entire branch of government to show the rest of the world he has no fucking idea how tariffs work, he’s threatening to take Greenland of all places by force, and now one of his cronies wants to use military might to force other countries to adopt an irrelevant name change.
It’s like the country is being run by Kim Jong Un.