Trump Proposes Renaming Gulf of Mexico as "Gulf of America"

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : In a brief comment amidst a press conference on the economy and on immigration, Trump told reporters that he would like the body of water to be named the "Gulf of America" because "we do most of the work there and it's ours.""We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring," Trump declared during a Tuesday press conference from Mar-a-Lago.
54% : The name has been proposed before, but never seriously: The last instance in recent political history was in 2012, when a Democratic congressman from Mississippi suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" to mock anti-immigration proposals.
28% : "The announcement was a footnote in the press conference, and Trump did not elaborate on the source of the idea.

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