Claudia Sheinbaum's statement comes after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to officially rename the body of water

Donald Trump's attempts to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America has not yet been acknowledged by map services.

President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and the Alaska mountain Denali to Mount McKinley. What you need to know.

Here’s what an executive order is, who can overturn it and how and a list of 12 impactful executive orders President Trump signed on Jan. 20, 2025.

Florida has become the first state to officially refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America," following President Donald Trump 's executive order directing federal agencies to adopt the new name. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis used the term in an emergency declaration issued on Monday ahead of a forecast winter storm.

The president issued an executive order to change the name of the body of water, but its power may be limited beyond the United States.

Fresh from his inauguration, US president Donald Trump has wasted no time in signing off on a suite of executive orders. Among them is a direction to rename the Gulf of Mexico the ''Gulf of America''. BBC Verify's Jake Horton asks, can the president really do that?

An area of ‘low pressure moving across the Gulf of America … will bring widespread impactful winter weather,” the order states.

One of his first executive orders, entitled “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” also stated that the highest peak in North America, currently called Denali, will be changed back to Mount McKinley — the name of the Alaskan mountain prior to 2015.

The most important thing in any name is not what some official institution or a collection of old maps says. Spontaneous order tends to rule the day.

Mexican president says President Trump can call the gulf whatever he wants but that the world will still call it the Gulf of Mexico.