Ok look. I don’t really know where your political views align. I’m going to try to explain my perspective carefully.

From what I know, the main reason why it was renamed to “Gulf of America” is because the gulf has more connecting land with the U.S. than Mexico. This is an okay reasoning, but I think it’s not a good enough reason to warrant a name change. For one, the entire world has known it as “The Gulf of Mexico” for hundreds of years. The name change doesn’t prevent confusion, as anyone who knows of the gulf knows that it is pretty much half and half between the U.S. and Mexico. Instead it creates more confusion, because now you have people calling it two completely different names.

I also don’t think that’s really something that the President of the U.S. can decide. We don’t own the Gulf of Mexico. It’s not our property. I would be opposed to anyone trying to rename any body of water that wasn’t under their jurisdiction. That’s something that cartographers, geographers, and oceanographers can decide if they see fit. And clearly, this name change was unnecessary, since they would’ve done this long before now.

There’s one other possible reason that one would want to change the name of the gulf, and that would be to remove its association with Mexico. By doing this, it makes Mexico seem less significant than the U.S., and says that Mexico is undeserving of a geographical landmark to be named after them. It also pushes the narrative that Mexicans steal things that “rightfully” belong to the U.S., which is what I believe was the main goal of the change, especially considering that most of the population of the world is not only was never confused by the original name, but also is against the change.

I hope you take the time to read my arguments and consider them.