Trump suggests ‘Ocean of Americas’ as new name for Atlantic or Pacific
Trump said he wants to rename an ocean and a river before leaving office, after earlier federal changes to the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario.
- At a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee on Saturday, President Donald Trump proposed renaming the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean as "Trump Ocean" or "Ocean of the Americas."
- The proposal follows executive orders from January 2025 and August 2026 directing U.S. federal agencies to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" and Lake Ontario as "Lake America."
- Trump also suggested rebranding the Strait of Hormuz as the "Trump Strait," stating he wants a major river and an ocean renamed before leaving the White House.
- Although Trump expressed clear intent, he announced no formal plan, and U.S. executive orders regarding geographic names apply only to federal records rather than international standards.
- International acceptance remains unlikely, as the Atlantic and Pacific border numerous countries that maintain established names, and previous renaming attempts drew criticism from foreign leaders like Canada's Premier Doug Ford.
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U.S. President Donald Trump took the initiative to rename the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean as "Okean America" or to name it after him. American leader at a meeting in Tennessee said that he needed to rename one of the oceans, wrote The Washington Post. "We call it "Okean Trump" or, or, or "Okean America", something like that," said Trump, laughing and applause to the audience. He stressed that the US needed "his own ocean and a great river." The Pr…
US President Donald Trump is proposing that the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean be renamed "Trump Ocean" or "America's Ocean".
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim A-ram = U.S. President Donald Trump has raised the possibility of renaming the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, following the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario...
U.S. President Donald Trump suggested this Saturday re-baptizing the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific with his name or calling it "the ocean of the Americas."Continue reading...
He claims at a rally that the U.S. needs an ocean and a large river in his name after ordering the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America and Lake Ontario as Lake America.
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