Trump claims he called Google Maps to rename Gulf of Mexico, boasts of his clout
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From the Gulf of Mexico to Lake Ontario through Behram to the Atlantic and Hadi, the American president's ambition does not seem to know the limits. But when he asked an ocean to carry his name, he ran into Google's refusal to swim with him.
TRUMP claims that Google rejected his idea of renaming an ocean after him, despite previous successful name changes to some waters in the US.
US President Donald Trump told supporters on Friday that he had tried to get an ocean named after him, but Google refused, he said.
Whether the exchange actually took place in this way remained unclear at first.
He's rebuffed the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. Now, apparently, the US president would like an ocean with his name.
Trump claims he called Google Maps to rename Gulf of Mexico, boasts of his clout
US President Donald Trump claimed he personally asked Google Maps to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, boasting that the company followed his request out of respect for him. Google, however, has said it made the change after the new name appeared in official US government sources.
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