By Jenn Gidman
Publication Date: 2026-10-23 17:40:00
President Trump says he toyed with an idea that would make cartographers cringe: giving the Atlantic Ocean a new name. At a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday, he recounted calling Google CEO Sundar Pichai to ask if the company could reflect such a switch on its maps, after previously adopting Trump-backed name changes for the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario for US users, reports the Washington Post. According to Trump, Pichai pushed back, saying oceans were “different” because they touch many countries and urging him not to make the request.
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