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The US doesn't have exclusive rights to "America" as a name. In fact strictly speaking "Gulf of America" is not a bad name since it is the largest gulf in the Americas AFAIK.
This is, of course, not why Trump is doing this.
The reason is racism
Then maybe “Gulf of the Americas” would be more appropriate.
Except America has more then one gulf so it isn't the gulf of America it is one gulf in America.
True, they'll probably call it Gulf of 'MURICA!
Agreed. Let's also change our demonym to Unitedstatian.
You joke but in many languages they do that, for instance "statunitensi" or "estadounidenses"
That’s also unclear, given the United States of Mexico.
Edit: I guess we could do Columbian, but I gotta assume Colombia would be annoyed and it’s not exactly descriptive of our foreign policy.