The Trump administration is reportedly taking offense at institutions that do not bend the knee when it comes to the gulf's name; The Associated Press said one of its reporters was barred from a Trump event on Tuesday because the wire service announced it was going to continue referring to the gulf as the Gulf of Mexico.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has had several skirmishes with Trump since he took office, complained that if Google is going to so cavalierly switch map names she wants the company to change the name of the U.S. to “América Mexicana,” as it was referred to on official maps beginning in the 1600s.
Sheinbaum objected to Trump and Google’s gulf name grab in a letter addressed to Google that she showed reporters last week.
Google said in a statement last week the name change was "consistent with our longstanding practices” of changing names for any nation if the switch is updated in local official documents.
But the body of water will remain the “Gulf of Mexico” in Mexico, and both names will appear on Google maps outside of the U.S. and Mexico.
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