President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to something more American.
Trump was speaking at a press conference on Tuesday from Palm Beach, Florida when he made the remark.
“We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring,” Trump said. “That covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America, what a beautiful name. And it’s appropriate.”
The Republican said his administration will be making the official announcement “at a future date pretty soon.”
“Because we do most of the work there and it’s ours,” he said.
“Mexico’s really in trouble. A lot of trouble. It’s a very dangerous place,” Trump said.
The president-elect said the country “has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into” the U.S. and repeated his threats to impose tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
“And we’re going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada because Canada…they come through Canada too and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers,” Trump said.
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