President Donald Trump told a crowd in South Carolina that he had called Google chief executive Sundar Pichai to ask whether Google Maps could be given a new name for the Atlantic Ocean. Trump said he considered using either “Trump” or “America” for the Atlantic or the Pacific, but Pichai’s alleged reply was, “Please don’t ask us to do that.” According to the president, the CEO added, “No, no, no, this time I’m not doing it,” and explained that oceans “cover a lot of countries.”
Trump noted that Google had already changed the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario on its maps after his executive order, renaming the Gulf of Mexico “Gulf of America” for U.S. users in early 2025 and changing Lake Ontario to “Lake America” this August. Apple made the same adjustments.
He said he would probably forgo renaming the Atlantic, but suggested the Pacific could become “the American Ocean.”
The story comes as inflation continues to rise, with AAA reporting gasoline at $4.27 per gallon and diesel at $6.31. The conflict in Iran has entered its 236th day, despite Trump’s March claim that it could be resolved in four to five weeks. With the midterm elections less than two weeks away, the president emphasized his focus on what he called the “real issues.”
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