... CNN’s Kaitlan Collins had asked Leavitt in the White House press briefing if the Trump administration’s decision to bar The Associated Press from certain events this week was retaliation for AP’s continued reference to the Gulf of Mexico.
“Is this setting a precedent that this White House will retaliate against reporters who don’t use the language that you guys believe reporters should use?” Collins asked.
Leavitt said: “It is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America, and I am not sure why news outlets don’t want to call it that, but that is what it is.”
So they DO understand the importance of using a preferred name over a given name when it comes to identity?
Only for bodies of water and mountains. People aren’t afforded that right. Apparently.
And army bases.
Hegseth is renaming them after confederate traitors again.
To make white supremacism great again!
The Gulf of Mexico did not ask for this.
A fact? The gaslighting is intolerable.
The Trump White House is now policing language.
There went the first amendment
The new Freedom Fries.
I don’t recall George W. Bush signing an executive order or demanding that it be called that by the media. I think they changed the name of them in the White House cafeteria, but there wasn’t this Newspeak, 1984 crap.
Good point.
It will always be The Gulf of Mexico, regardless what that narcissist renamed it!
The good news it it will be named the Gulf of Mexico (formerly America) 5 seconds after Trump's term ends ...
Trump made a decree that the Gulf of Mexico should be Gulf of America.
While Google and Apple’s mapping services have complied with President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” MapQuest is holding its ground.
The company ― which calls itself “the OG of online mapping” on BlueSky ― has refused to make the change. “Our maps are like grandma’s Thanksgiving recipes — once they’re printed, they’re not changing. The Gulf of Mexico stays put on MapQuest,” it announced last month.
And it’s now offering other critics a way to push back on Trump’s demand.
However, as some questioned how Trump's base might react, netizens quickly saw the answer. So, as conservatism grows in the US, here's a look at how the voting block thinks:
Assholes.
... This was the only cautious note I could find out of all the comments from conservatives online.
... (San Diego State English professor William) Nericcio is usually quick to a bon mot, but his worrisome tone when we talked was something I had never heard in the 15 years we've known each other.
“We know the history of America is empire, but this is America dropping its pants and showing its empire tattoos,” he said. “It’s bald, naked imperialism, and it’s on the order of Stalin.”
It’s easy to dismiss Nericcio as a wild-eyed academic wokoso, but he’s not wrong at all.
The name change isn't a punchline or weird Trump quirk a la ketchup on steak or his weak-salsa YMCA dance. It's indicative of a commander in chief hellbent on continuing his efforts at a modern-day Manifest Destiny against our ultimate frenemy in any way, shape or form. Trump is convinced the American public will largely accept anything he does against Mexico, because guess what? It's just Mexico....
Wiping the Gulf of Mexico off U.S. maps isn’t a lark; it’s a promise of more to come. It's a move out of the playbook of Latin American strongmen that have long plagued the Western Hemisphere but now have an eager copycat at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I asked Nericcio to find a silver lining in all this, or at least offer advice on how to fight back. “We don’t own the engines of legitimacy and power — unfortunately, he does,” Nericcio replied. “We’re speaking in the past tense, Gustavo. It’s done.”
He laid out the following scenario: The next time American schoolchildren have to do a geography assignment involving the Gulf of Mexico, they’ll look up the maps of Google, Apple or websites run by the federal government. “They’ll see Gulf of America and think, ‘Oh, that’s the right answer for my homework because the internet says so.’ And voila, you now have a whole generation calling it by a name with no historical basis."
Nericcio sounded forlorn. “What gets me is the anemic pushback. Anemic. Almost like, ‘Yes, daddy.’ It’s like watching a movie with a supervillain who keeps winning and winning, and I don’t think this one’s going to have a happy ending.”
... The study, featured in Nature, provided a deeper look into this groundbreaking discovery. With only around 40 brine pools ever identified in the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, and the recently named Gulf of America, this finding adds a rare and significant layer to our understanding of such extreme underwater environments....
"Gulf of America" in a British newspaper? The 27 June 2022 linked article in Nature a British scientific journal:
Only for bodies of water and mountains. People aren’t afforded that right. Apparently.And army bases.
I don’t recall George W. Bush signing an executive order or demanding that it be called that by the media. I think they changed the name of them in the White House cafeteria, but there wasn’t this Newspeak, 1984 crap.
It says "Gulf of America" on AppleMaps on MY laptop now, snuck in without asking me. 
"Not found".
The 27 June 2022 linked article in Nature a British scientific journal:
