Columnist Mark Patinkin ponders new names for Rhode Island and it's cities and towns as the Gulf of Mexico gets renamed.

The Department of the Interior says they're moving quickly to implement President Donald Trump's executive order to rename Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes "southerly down the thread of the main stream of said Suwannee River to the Gulf of Mexico; thence along said Gulf of Mexico, including the waters of said gulf within the jurisdiction of the State of Florida, to the mouth of the Steinhatchee River."

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba.

The US Department of the Interior (DoI) on Friday said that the Gulf of Mexico is now to be known as the "Gulf of America" following an executive order by US President Donald Trump. On Monday, Trump issued an order saying that the body of water on the south coast of the US and east coast of Mexico would be renamed in honour of "American greatness.

For some crazy reason it’s having a renaissance in all my conversations. I can’t stop trotting it out while on the phone or out in public. "Chilly along the Gulf of Mexico," I’ll chip in as I pass someone in a store.

President Trump's executive order renames the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, cast your vote on which name you prefer.

FILE PHOTO: Waves crash on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, after newly sworn-in U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, in Boca del Rio, Veracruz state, Mexico January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Yahir Ceballos/File Photo

Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The process in each state is different.

The Trump administration has officially implemented name changes for Alaska's Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico, as requested by the new president.