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Video above: Trump blasts Jimmy Carter over Panama CanalPresident-elect Donald Trump announced that the Gulf of Mexico will be getting a new name in a news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday.”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. “The Gulf of America, what a beautiful name, and it’s appropriate.”The motion came about while he was discussing Mexico.Trump then discussed the concept of “approaching the dawn of America’s golden age.”>> WVTM 13 ON-THE-GO: Download our app for freeWhy is he talking about this?Since his first run for the White House in 2016, Trump has repeatedly clashed with Mexico over a number of issues, including border security and the imposition of tariffs on imported goods. He vowed then to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and make Mexico pay for it. The U.S. ultimately constructed or refurbished about 450 miles of wall during his first term.The Gulf of Mexico is often referred to as the United States Third Coast due to its coastline across five southeastern states. Mexicans use a Spanish version of the same name for the gulf: El Golfo de Mxico.Americans and Mexicans diverge on what to call another key body of water, the river that forms the border between Texas and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. Americans call it the Rio Grande; Mexicans call it the Rio Bravo.How would this happen?Trump did not elaborate on how he would go about renaming the body of water that is monitored during hurricane season and vital to the country’s economy.President Barack Obama renamed Mount McKinley to Denali through the Department of Interior in 2015.But even if Trump were to go through U.S. channels, not all countries would have to follow suit.The International Hydrographic Organization, which the United States and Mexico are members of, works to make sure all of the world’s major bodies of water are charted similarly.Just after Trumps comments on Tuesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said during an interview with podcaster Benny Johnson that she would direct her staff to draft legislation to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico, a move she said would take care of funding for new maps and administrative policy materials throughout the federal government.Has this come up before?Yes. In 2012, a member of the Mississippi Legislature proposed a bill to rename portions of the gulf that touch that states beaches Gulf of America, a move the bill author later referred to as a joke. That bill, which was referred to a committee, did not pass.Two years earlier, comedian Stephen Colbert had joked on his show that, following the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it should be renamed Gulf of America because, We broke it, we bought it.Are there other places with international name disputes? Theres a long-running dispute over the name of the Sea of Japan among Japan, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, with South Korea arguing that the current name wasnt commonly used until Korea was under Japanese rule. At an International Hydrographic Organization meeting in 2020, member states agreed on a plan to replace names with numerical identifiers and develop a new digital standard for modern geographic information systems.The Persian Gulf has been widely known by that name since the 16th century, although usage of Gulf and Arabian Gulf is dominant in many countries in the Middle East. The government of Iran threatened to sue Google in 2012 over the companys decision not to label the body of water at all on its maps.There have been other conversations about bodies of water, including from Trumps 2016 opponent. According to materials revealed by WikiLeaks in a hack of her campaign chairmans personal account, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2013 told an audience that, by Chinas logic that it claimed nearly the entirety of the South China Sea, then the U.S. after World War II could have labeled the Pacific Ocean the American Sea.This article contains information from The Associated Press.