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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
Gulf Of What? A note from StormTracker 59 on hurricane season
GHENT, WV (WVNS) — President Donald Trump signed executive order #14172, 'Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness', on February 9th, 2025, where the Gulf of Mexico was renamed to the Gulf of America. The formally named Gulf of Mexico received its name from early European explorers that had to cross the body of water to arrive in Mexico1. Since the late 1600's, the name just stuck. Mexico, at the time, covered present day Mexico and several state that would become the United States of America including Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, portions of Colorado, and Wyoming. Spain controlled Gulf waters along Florida and France held control of much of the waters along Louisiana. For more than 400 years the name 'Gulf of Mexico' survived early colonization, the Louisiana Purchase in 18032, Texas independence in 18393, Texas statehood in 18454, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 18485, and the 1853 Gadsden Purchase6 where Mexico and the U.S., traded control over what is now the United States of America. Not to mention the internal changes in colonial Mexico from Spanish control. The Gulf of Mexico has been a long standing name for generations of citizens of several counties that border it and around the world. With recent changes from the February 2025 executive order, however, some contention has arose from the move bringing politics to a body of water's name that is highly important to the Atlantic Hurricane Season. Making it a name that will come up quite a bit from June to November during the 2025 hurricane season. For the most part, meteorologists have always shortened the name 'Gulf of Mexico', now 'Gulf of America', to simply 'The Gulf', as it is a body of water most audiences are familiar with, know their directional relationship to it, and where to find it on a weather map. If a hurricane is in the Gulf, like Helene from 2024, most of us know where to look. But with so much political turmoil over the recent changes from President Trump, meteorologist have found themselves under fire for following this practice as if it were a slight towards the President's order. It is not. Why spend 30 seconds during a severe weather event talking about where a location is when most already know where you are talking about? For your StormTracker 59 team, our main concern when it comes to natural disasters is always the safety and wellbeing of our community, first. Breaking in for tornado coverage, Facebook lives during major winter storms, or rising to the challenges in the community after historic flooding. We care more about our community's weather concerns than what the political world thinks about us. We are scientists, not political commentators you might find on 24-hour news networks. With that said, the Gulf of America the name of the body of water that runs along the western side of Florida, southern Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas by executive order and recognized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration whom we rely on throughout the year, especially during hurricane season. NOAA has already started issuing communications on alerts and discussions using the new name and as a result, when applicable to our forecast discussions, we will do the same. Again, our focus isn't on the name of the body of water the deadly CAT 4 hurricane comes from, but what impacts it will have to you when it does. However, after over 400 years of history, multiple years of combined education between our meteorologist during a time when the name was different, new things take time to adjust too and mistakes will be made. We may slip and refer to 'the Gulf' as the Gulf of Mexico. We will strive to call it what it is, the Gulf of America, but when we do or don't we are not jumping into the political world. We leave policy and politics where they belong, in the hands of elected officials. We let them answer for their choices as we do our best to follow those choices. Our hope, as the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season gets underway, is that it is a calm year that falls short of current forecasts and we don't have to see headlines like 'death toll rises in wake of another hurricane'. It is also our hope to continue to provide the best coverage of impactful weather events as we've always have without politics getting in the way of vital information that can keep you safe. Gulf of America or Gulf of Mexico, when hurricanes come, it won't matter to us, or you, when we're left picking up the pieces in the aftermath. We'll keep politics out of our weather forecasts as we have enough to deal with from Mother Nature than fighting political ideologies or policy. Our focus will always be on the weather and how it will impact you. That, at the end of the day, is all we care about. 1) Britannica – Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America: National Office of the Historian – Louisiana Purchase 1803: & 4) Texas State Historical Society – The Texas Revolution: Key Events and Impact: National Archives – Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848): National Office of the Historian – Gadsden Purchase, 1853–1854: Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Newsweek
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Newsweek
Lone Republican Votes Against Bill Renaming Gulf of Mexico
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Republicans voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill that officially renames the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, following President Donald Trump's executive order signed on his first day back in office. Both Democrats and Republicans had eight non-voting members, and only one Republican, Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska, voted against the measure. He had previously told reporters he found the bill "juvenile." "We're the United States of America. We're not Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany or Napoleon France," Bacon told CNN earlier this week. "We're better than this. It just sounds like a sophomore thing to do." Bacon has spoken out several times during Trump's first 100 days back in office to criticize his policies, including the reciprocal tariffs. Trump signed the "Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness" executive order on January 20, which ordered Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to "take all appropriate actions to rename as the 'Gulf of America' the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the State of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico." However, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia brought the bill before the House of Representatives just days after Trump signed his order, which includes funding to cover the cost of officially changing all government maps to reflect the new name. "We have to force this to happen and we should! We rename post offices all the time this isn't complicated," Greene wrote on X in January.
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
People Are Like "Lol What" About Donald Trump Renaming Veteran's Day
Donald Trump changed the names of a bunch of things with his "Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness" executive order in January. He renamed Mount Denali back to Mount McKinley. He renamed Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. Related: 29 Tweets That Honestly Saved My Mental Health This Week, And I'm Not Even Exaggerating And, of course, that whole Gulf of America thing. It appears he's going after holidays now. Related: 17 Of The Most Bone-Chilling WTF Moments People Experienced And Still Can't Explain To This Day Trump posted on Truth Social that he's naming May 8th as Victory Day for World War II and November 11 as Victory Day for World War I. November 11 is Veteran's Day, btw. The reaction online is "lol what." A bunch of people in the replies are asking, "What about the other veterans?" Other people are saying they had to double-check if it was real (It is.) And this person joked, "Next he's gonna say that Captain America character is based on him..." Also in Internet Finds: Here Are 15 Jaw-Dropping Moments That Made Highly-Paid Employees Say "I Quit" Also in Internet Finds: 41 Fascinating — And Some Disturbing — Photos Of The Human Body That Might Just Make Your Head Explode Also in Internet Finds: 36 Shocking Things Doctors And Nurses Witnessed At Hospitals That I Genuinely Can't Believe
Buzz Feed
02-05-2025
- Politics
- Buzz Feed
People Are Like "Lol What" About Donald Trump Renaming Veteran's Day
Donald Trump changed the names of a bunch of things with his "Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness" executive order in January. He renamed Mount Denali back to Mount McKinley. He renamed Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. And, of course, that whole Gulf of America thing. It appears he's going after holidays now. Trump posted on Truth Social that he's naming May 8th as Victory Day for World War II and November 11 as Victory Day for World War I. November 11 is Veteran's Day, btw. The reaction online is "lol what." A bunch of people in the replies are asking, "What about the other veterans?" Other people are saying they had to double-check if it was real (It is.) And this person joked, "Next he's gonna say that Captain America character is based on him..."
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Laws, textbooks in Florida set to rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America by July
With a nod to President Donald Trump, the Gulf of Mexico might soon be called the Gulf of America in Florida law – and in K-12 textbooks. Two House bills (HB 575, HB 549) would change the name of the body of water that borders almost half of Florida to the Gulf of America in state statute and directs state agencies and school districts after July 1 of this year to adopt instructional materials that include this change. Both bills were passed by the Florida Senate on Wednesday afternoon and are on the way to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who will almost certainly sign them. "Gulf of America is not a horrible name change for the Gulf of Mexico," said Sen. Nick DiCeglie, R-St. Petersburg, the sponsor of the Senate version of the bill. "I think it recognizes the fact that we are an exceptional country, and quite frankly, I thought this was long overdue." The bills follow up on Trump's executive order, "Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness," to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and Denali, a mountain in Alaska, back to Mount McKinley. If signed, Florida will be the first state to "officially recognize" the Gulf of America, DiCeglie said. HB 549 will require all new purchases of instructional "geographic materials," like textbooks, and additions to media center libraries to refer to the Gulf of America. Sen. Lori Berman, D-Boyton Beach, questioned why the Florida Senate was working on this legislation, saying the renaming served "no practical purpose." "It will not improve the lives of our constituents, nor will it advance our state's economic, educational or environmental policies," Berman said. "Instead, it diverts our attention and resources from urgent issues that generally affect the lives of Floridians." But DeCeglie said he can "chew gum and walk at the same time," and called voting for the bill "patriotic." 'Ever since President Trump entered the Oval Office, he has fought for America First policies that honor our country's greatness,' said Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula. 'Mr. President, I'm proud to say that the Florida Senate stands with you in the fight to recognize the Gulf of America and celebrate American exceptionalism.' Ana Goñi-Lessan, state watchdog reporter for the USA TODAY Network – Florida, can be reached at agonilessan@ This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Floridians face coastal name change to Gulf of America in state law
