It seems that changing the name of the gulf of mexico and to lake ontario by those of his choice has not been enough to donald trumppresident of the United States, and now he has set his sights on the Atlantic Ocean. Or he had put it, because apparently, and according to his own words, Sundar PichaiCEO of Googleopposed the idea and convinced him not to do it.
The president recounted the conversation during a rally held this Wednesday in South Carolina, according to The Verge. ‘We seriously consider the Atlantic Ocean and I called Google Maps, which has been really good with the lake, really good.’he explained to the attendees.
Trump told the manager that ‘I’m thinking of the Atlantic Ocean, can you take care of it?’but received a resounding response. ‘No, no, no. This time I’m not going to do it’Pichai answered, according to the president, who explained that the executive argued that ‘the oceans are different’ because they bathe numerous countries. ‘Please don’t ask us to do that’he insisted.
The denial did not stop Trump from describing Pichai and the Google co-founder, Sergey Brinas ‘absolutely brilliant guys’although he joked that ‘they are still upset about the gulf’. Finally, he hinted that he would abandon the proposal. ‘So I’ll probably let it be, should I let it be?’he asked before adding that ‘I think it’s better to keep calling it the Atlantic Ocean, right?’.
In early October, during another rally in Tennessee, he had proposed ‘Trump ocean’ and ‘ocean of the Americas’ to rename the Atlantic or the Peacefulwithout later specifying which one he proposed to Pichai.
In January 2025, Trump signed an executive order to name gulf of america to the gulf of mexico and in the last August to call lake of america to the lake ontario. Google Maps and Apple Maps They incorporated both names for American users, following the changes promoted by the Administration.
Google has explained that applies the denominations of the official sources of each country. That is why it maintains the Gulf of Mexico for those who consult its maps from Mexico and Lake Ontario for those who do so from Canada, while in the rest of the world it shows both names.
MapQuest decided to keep the original names and on August 27, given the change in Lake Ontario, he published an unequivocal message on social networks, ‘We’re not going to change it’.