President-elect Donald Trump suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico after the U.S. But can he really do that? Here's how place names are determined.

What a beautiful name," he said in a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, his first since his 2024 victory was certified by a ...

Trump proposes renaming Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’ President-elect Donald Trump vowed to change the name of the Gulf ...

US President-elect Donald Trump wants the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America. "We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ...

President-elect Donald Trump says that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a name he ...

The state of Alaska and Alaskans themselves have always had a clear record that they prefer to call North America’s tallest ...

President-elect Donald Trump has announced plans to change the name of Mount Denali in Alaska back to Mount McKinley, ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to revert the name of Alaska's Denali back to Mount McKinley, which was named the ...

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to rename Denali, the tallest mountain in North America, as Mount McKinley. It’s the political equivalent of putting salmon ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on December 22 that he would rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's ...

"Denali" is an Athabascan word meaning "the high one" or "the great one." A prospector in 1896 dubbed the peak "Mount McKinley" after President William McKinley, who had never been to Alaska.