President-elect Donald Trump announces his "Gulf of America" idea Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” because “it’s ours.”

“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 territory,” Trump said of the ocean basin that borders five US states to the north and Mexico to the south.

It’s carried some version of the Gulf of Mexico name, given to it by Spanish colonisers, since the 1540s.

“The Gulf of America ― what a beautiful name. And it’s appropriate,” Trump said at a news conference, also asserting: “We do most of the work there. It’s ours.”

One of the United States’ biggest impacts on the Gulf was the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, when a BP-operated prospect caused the biggest marine oil spill in petroleum industry history. Despite the event constituting one of the largest environmental disasters in world history, Trump weakened regulations to prevent future spills during his first term in the White House.

Trump’s name change would have no........

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