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On President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made his state the first to reference the “Gulf of America” in an executive order when he issued a state of emergency due to cold weather. Executive Order EO 25-13 reads, “Whereas an area of low pressure moving across the Gulf of America, interacting with Arctic air, will bring widespread impactful weather to North Florida beginning Tuesday.”During his inauguration speech, Trump said, “America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world.”Among the first executive orders signed by Trump was an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” Trump signed a series of executive orders on his first day in office, stating the “Gulf of America” is of “critical importance to our nation’s economy and its people.”Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, took to X to share his thoughts.”‘Gulf of America’ has a beautiful ring to it,” Musk wrote. Florida U.S. Senator Rick Scott also took to X, sharing an image of a map with the “Gulf of America”.”The GULF OF AMERICA has never looked better off of Floridas shores,” Scott wrote.Additionally, the executive order reinstated the name “Mount McKinley” to the tallest mountain in North America, reversing a 2015 Obama administration decision to federally recognize the mountain as Denali, the name used by the Koyukon Alaska Native people.Now, federal agencies have 30 days to begin updating documents and maps to reflect the new name as directed by Trump’s executive order.Legislative action may be taken next to formalize the change in U.S. law.After Trump first proposed changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico on Jan. 8, Mexicos president, Claudia Sheinbaum, responded sarcastically by proposing that North America should be renamed Amrica Mexicana, or Mexican America, because a founding document dating from 1814 that preceded Mexicos constitution referred to it that way.Can President Trump change the name of the Gulf of Mexico?Maybe, but it is not a unilateral decision, and other countries do not have to recognize the change.The International Hydrographic Organization works to ensure all the world’s seas, oceans and navigable waters are surveyed and charted uniformly, and also names some of them.The United States and Mexico are both active members of the organization.It can be easier when a landmark or body of water is within a countrys boundaries. In 2015, then-President Barack Obama approved an order from the Department of Interior to rename Mount McKinley to Denali.On Tuesday, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene 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.This is a move she said would take care of funding for new maps and administrative policy materials throughout the federal government.How did the Gulf of Mexico get its name?The body of water has been depicted with that name for more than four centuries, an original determination believed to have been taken from a Native American city of Mexico.