The executive order will 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 the New York Post, which first reported the news. Trump has nominated Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to the Department of Interior.

Among the first executive orders set to be signed by President-elect Donald Trump will be an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the newly named "Gulf of America." During his January press conference at Mar-a-Lago,

While the Gulf of America will be applied to federal references, other nations will not be required to recognize the name.

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not simple or quick, as President Trump is about to find out.

In a statement explaining its decision, the AP said Trump has the authority to change the mountain’s name, but the gulf is a global name

President Donald Trump on his first day in office signed an executive order calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be ... the Interior—Trump has tapped North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum for the job ...

He elected North Dakota's governor Doug Burgum for the ... "We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of ...

WASHINGTON -- Among the first executive orders set to be signed by President-elect Donald Trump will be an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America." During his January press ...

More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Gulf of Mexico has been so named at least since the late 1600s, when it was used to describe the body of water that's bordered to the north by the United States' southern coast, from Texas to ...

The Department of the Interior says they're moving quickly to implement President Donald Trump's executive order to rename Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Trump administration's Interior Department said on Friday it had officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and the Alaskan peak Denali to Mount McKinley.