At a Kentucky rally on Oct. 17, President Trump said his second-term power lets him do things he could not do in his first term, and claimed Google now takes his calls. He cited Google Maps changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and noted he had jokingly told a Tennessee crowd on Oct. 10 that he called Google about naming an ocean after himself. Google says it follows official government changes and renamed the gulf for U.S. users one week after Trump's Jan. 20, 2025 executive order, not because of his influence. Users outside the U.S. still see the Gulf of Mexico.
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| Close on 10/20/2026 | 340.28 |
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