The Associated Press has weighed in on how it will respond to President Donald Trump’s executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and the name of Alaska’s Denali back to Mount McKinley.
President Trump said he will sign executive orders to change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and Mount Denali to Mount McKinley.
President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and the Alaska mountain Denali to Mount McKinley. What you need to know.
Mexican president says President Trump can call the gulf whatever he wants but that the world will still call it the Gulf of Mexico.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
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The resolution calls for state agencies to update official state maps, documents, educational materials, and any other communications to reflect the name change.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum joked that if Trump went ahead with the renaming, her country would rename North America “Mexican America.” On Tuesday, she toned it down: “For us and for the entire world it will continue to be called the Gulf of Mexico.”
The US president ordered US mapmakers to make the change within hours of taking office on Monday, making good on a campaign promise which infuriated the Mexican government.
The Associated Press said in updated guidance that it will use President Trump’s name change for Denali but not the Gulf of Mexico. In an announcement Thursday, Amanda Barrett, the AP’s vice president of standards and inclusion,