The Associated Press refuses to acknowledge an Executive Order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The AP calls it a “style” decision. However, it’s a rebuke of an executive order, which outweighs “style.”
President Trump called the AP partisan. The AP doesn’t want to recognize the Gulf as part of America.
The AP Responded
The White House blocked an Associated Press journalist from covering a news conference with two major world leaders Thursday, upping the stakes in a disagreement between the news agency and the Trump administration over AP’s style decision to stick with the name “Gulf of Mexico” for the body of water that the president rechristened the “Gulf of America.”
[Even the word “rechristened” is biased.]
An AP reporter was prevented from entering a news conference where President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi answered questions, effectively shutting out thousands of global news outlets that rely on the news organization.
Julie Pace, the AP’s senior vice president and executive editor, called it a “deeply troubling escalation” and “a plain violation of the First Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution.
“We urge the Trump administration in the strongest terms to stop this practice,” Pace, who also wrote to Trump’s chief of staff on Wednesday, said in a statement. “This is now the third day AP reporters have been barred from covering the president — first as a member of the pool, and now from a formal press conference — an incredible disservice to the billions of people who rely on The Associated Press for nonpartisan news.”
White House Response
The White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, was asked about it. She said media access decisions are up to the president. She suggested that retaining references to the Gulf of Mexico constituted “lies” for which news organizations would be held accountable.
“We reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office,” Leavitt said.
CNN’s Kaitlin Collins reduced the name change to mere “language.” If it is only “language” and “style,” changing their minds should be no problem.
Karoline Leavitt shuts CNN hack Kaitlan Collins down after whining about an AP reporter losing access over ‘Gulf of America’:
“Let me just set the record straight. It is a privilege to cover this white House. It’s a privilege to be the white House press secretary. And… pic.twitter.com/a7M9CjC1Lo
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 12, 2025
And this…
Not very long ago: pic.twitter.com/QOBmskc599
— Bradley Devlin (@bradleydevlin) February 13, 2025
Updated to include the last X post.
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The Gulf of MEXICO
The new imperialist push based on ‘Manifest Destiny’ by the 47th US president even includes renaming geographical landmarks like the Gulf of Mexico, whose name dates back over 450 years, to the ‘
Gulf of America’. But the United States isn’t the only country which has a coastline on the 620,000 square-mile semi-enclosed body of water.Both Mexico and Cuba also have rights to large swaths of the important sea basin. Nonetheless, Google announced that it will make the name change to ‘
Gulf of America’ for users of Google Maps in the United States once it is officially updated in the US Geographic Names System. Users in Mexico will still see the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ in the app, but all other countries will see both names.The decision by the tech giant prompted President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico to write a letter of protest to Google on Thursday. She said at a press conference that any name change should only apply to the 12 nautical miles from the coastline where countries are completely sovereign over those waters as it “applies to all countries worldwide.”
So how is possession of the seas divided up between nations and who has more sovereignty over the Gulf of Mexico/
Gulf of America?Exclusive economic zone (EEZ) versus territorial sea
International laws establish the recognized maritime zones of all nations including international waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the high seas and the Area. The territorial sea, the waters that are within 12 nautical miles of a nation’s coastline, are what President Sheinbaum was referring to. By that account, Mexico has far more coastline on the Gulf of Mexico than the US.
Mexico has a little more than 2,046 miles of coastline on the Gulf of Mexico, pertaining to the states of Tamaulipas (which shares a border with Texas), Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche and Yucatán. The US on the other hand only has a little less than 1,632 miles of Gulf coastline belonging to the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
https://en.as.com/latest_news/google-maps-controversy-who-has-a-larger-percentage-of-the-gulf-of-mexico-the-united-states-or-mexico-n/
I love it. Gulf of America. The we can rename the Atlantic “The Eastern American Ocean”. The Pacific “The Western American Ocean”. Then Mexico “The $hit Hole to the South”. Then Canada “The Cold $hit Hole to the North”.
This is idiotic. A US President’s EO can’t change the name of an international body of water. This whole thing is moronic.
The Associated Press is offering further proof of it’s anti-American, Trump-hating bias, and has become totally irrelevant as a news source. No sensible person trusts or even bothers to give any attention to the Associated Press or the rest of the lying Fake News Media. To hell with the Associated Press and its advertisers.
But in the last few years when Democrats, BLM and Antifa had Streets renamed, Buildings renamed, Schools renamed and statues TOPPLED, MONUMENTS DESTROYED, the Associated Press was fine with that.
They are corrupt criminals who are paid by corrupt criminals.
The Associated Press has been colluding with democrats for decades, they should be sued for TRILLIONS of dollars, yes TRILLIONS.
Why Trillions? because they would not be able to pay, would go out of business.
they would be GONE.
None of which you listed are international bodies of water. All are within the US borders.
and my point is not about where they are, it is that when liberals rename things, or worse DESTROY VIOLENTLY STATUES AND OTHER MONUMENTS with no justification, people like you say it is ok…. but when republicans rename things people like you manufacture reasons to be opposed to it.
and your comment just helped me prove my point.