Now GOOGLE caves to Trump & renames Gulf of America on Maps in latest victory for Don as tech giants line up behind him
Now that Google has acceded to Donald Trump’s demands, he has won yet another win.
According to Trump’s wishes, Google Maps will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Hours after taking office on January 20, newly inaugurated President Trump ordered the name change as part of a lengthy list of administrative measures.
Google has now disclosed that it will alter the name of the ocean basin after it is formally amended in the US Geographic Names System.
The name will still be “Gulf of Mexico” in Mexico, but the change will be noticeable in the US.
Google Maps will display both names for people outside of the two countries.
More on Donald Trump
Trump rounds up 1,000 illegal immigrants in ONE DAY amid crackdown
Melania Trump praised over White House portrait as fans compare it to Don pic
Colombia came in and agreed to take in deported migrants, giving Trump yet another victory.
The tallest mountain in North America, Denali, in Alaska, was formally renamed Mount McKinley by the Trump administration’s Interior Department on Friday.
With Mount McKinley, Alphabet’s Google Maps will undergo a similar transformation.
Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, made the humorous suggestion earlier this month that North America, including the United States, be renamed “Mexican America”—a moniker that was historically used on an early map of the region.
The US Gulf coast, the eastern states of Mexico, and Cuba form its borders. The Gulf is a vital location for transportation, fishing, and the extraction of oil and gas.
He stated earlier this month that “because we do most of the work there, and it’s ours,” the name change would be okay.
With Tesla CEO Elon Musk leading his DOGE department, tech behemoths have been parading around Trump as he re-establishes in the White House.
Leading tech billionaires Musk, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg were all photographed together at Trump’s inauguration.
In a weather notice last week, Florida became the first state in the United States to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
It stated: “An area of low pressure moving across the Gulf of America, interacting with Arctic air, will bring widespread impactful winter weather to North Florida…”
In a formal news release titled “The maritime border between Texas and Mexico in the Gulf of America….,” the US Coast Guard followed suit.
In other places where naming disputes exist, Google has used the same locale-based labeling conventions.
This body of water, which borders both South Korea and Japan, is referred to as the “Sea of Japan (East Sea).”
Trump’s executive orders
TRUMP began his second term by implementing a radical transformation of the United States.
He has already signed the following executive orders:
ABOUT IMMIGRATION
Trump has the authority to utilize federal funds to erect a wall along the US-Mexico border without Congress’s approval since he proclaimed an official national emergency there.
“That’s a big one,” he said as he signed the order. For years, people have desired to achieve this.
Additionally, he issued a directive to abolish birthright citizenship, which is the practice of awarding US citizenship to someone born in the country.
CRUNCH CLIMATE
As he did at the start of his first term, Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
“I’m immediately withdrawing from the one-sided Paris Climate Accord ripoff,” he declared last Monday.
“The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity.”
Additionally, he left the WHO, which will cost the organization millions of dollars, and the US will no longer be covered by several international immunization guidelines.
Plans for TikTok
Due to its Chinese parent firm, ByteDance, social media platform TikTok has recently faced criticism in the United States.
Last Sunday, it went offline during a brief ban in America, but it returned with a message expressing gratitude to “President Trump” for his efforts.
He signed an executive order to postpone the implementation of the prohibition for a further ninety days after formally assuming office on Monday.
FORMING “DOGE”
A long-awaited addition to the new government is the notorious Department of Government Efficiency, which appears to have been the invention of Trump and his friend, tech magnate Elon Musk.
Through an executive order, Trump formally renamed the Obama-created Digital Service to the “United States DOGE Service.”
The department will be in charge of overseeing “the size and scope of government” reductions through significant federal budget cuts.
CERTIFICATIONS OF SECURITY
Two executive orders pertaining to security clearance levels were also signed by Trump.
One enables White House staff members to bypass the conventional vetting procedure and receive top secret levels of clearance.
51 former intelligence officials who signed a letter claiming that a news report regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop was a part of a Russian misinformation effort have had their security clearances revoked.
MEASURES FOR DIVERSITY AND TRANSGENDER RIGHTS
Trump’s executive order to restrict transgender people’s rights was one of his longest campaign pledges.
According to the memo, his government would make sure to adopt “clear and accurate language and policies that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.”
“It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female,” it stated.
“These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”
Then he issued an order declaring federal initiatives aimed at enhancing workplace diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) “wasteful, illegal, and immoral.”
Iran vowed to sue Google in 2012 for removing the phrase “Persian Gulf” from its maps and failing to give the waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula a name.
Other nations now refer to the body of water as the “Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf)”.
It occurs as the 78-year-old Trump continues to fulfill the pledges he made during the campaign.
With a litany of executive orders that established agendas, he surged into his second term as president.
Read More on The US Sun
Travis & Taylor passionately kiss as Chiefs win to reach Super Bowl
Pepsi removed from Costco food courts as drink returns for 1st time in 12 years
He had established the tone for his new administration’s immigration, environment, domestic, and crime objectives within hours of taking office.
Trump issued more than 1,500 pardons, revoked a staggering 78 executive actions from the Biden administration, and withdrew from the historic Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization.
TikTok, gender debate & JFK truth the rest of Trump s to-do list
By Foreign News Reporter Ellie Doughty
The assassination of JFK
Trump pledged to unearth numerous classified documents pertaining to the murders of Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King, Senator Robert Kennedy, and President John F. Kennedy.
Trump did make certain documents from the 1963 shooting death of JFK in Dallas, Texas, public during his first term.
King and Robert Kennedy were both assassinated in 1968.
“In the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records related to the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr Martin Luther King Jr and other topics of great public interest,” he stated the day before his Inauguration.
Trump has not specified what kind of documents he hopes to release, but the JFK assassination in particular has been a long-term source of debate in the US.
A widespread conspiracy theory has suggested the involvement of the federal government or CIA in orchestrating and covering up his death.
TIKTOK BAN
Trump has hit repeatedly hit out at the plans to ban TikTok in the US – a wildly popular social media app with some 170million American users.
After national security concerns tied to its Chinese ownership, the app was briefly shut down across the country.
But mere hours after Trump promised to reinstate it after taking office, American users were able to get back online.
Theapp “welcomed back” Americanyesterday, lauding Trump as the reason for its return even before his official return to the Oval Office.
He then extended a 90-day period to keep it running.
GENDER DEBATE
Trump has previously vowed to reinstate a ban on transgender military service – something he brought in during his first term which Biden later axed.
He said at a rally in December: “With the stroke of my pen, on day one, we’re going to stop the transgender lunacy.”
He is also expected to ban transgender women from competing in women’s sports, saying: “And I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high school.
“And we will keep men out of women’s sports. And that will likewise be done on Day One.”
CRUNCH CLIMATE
Trump has also promised to look at cost of living efforts and visit Los Angeles in the wake of recent devastating wildfires.
And he is expected to overturn President Biden’s climate policies – including on the regulation of pollution or green job efforts.
It could also stretch to a ban on new wind projects or electric vehicle mandates.
He has already pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement – just as he did in 2017, before Biden rejoined in 2021.