Can Trump really rename the Gulf of Mexico? Comedian's old suggestion takes on new life

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : Trump at a press conference on Tuesday said it would be a "beautiful name" for the body of water that's bordered to the north by the United States' southern coast, from Texas around to Florida.
79% : "We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring," Trump said.
50% : Multiple international bodies help mediate those discrepancies, including the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names.
48% : States are not required to use the same names as the federal government, although they usually do.
43% : "We could call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Trump but no one else would have to listen to us," he said, laughing.
35% : Trump also recently suggested that he wanted to rename Alaska's Mount Denali to the name given to the country's tallest mountain by white Americans: Mount McKinley, which honored former President William McKinley.
18% : Can Trump rename the Gulf of Mexico? Trump ‒ or any American ‒ can suggest a renaming.
17% : The Colbert Report routinely mocked conservatives, including the kind of nationalism that Trump and his MAGA supporters espouse.

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