Trump Jokes on Naming Gulf After Himself

President Donald Trump joked during a televised interview that he had considered renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Trump before opting against it, amid a discussion on U.S. energy exports to the region. The remarks came Sunday during a phone appearance on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, as Trump addressed reports of supertankers heading to purchase American oil and natural gas.

Bartiromo referenced Trump's recent social media post claiming that large numbers of empty supertankers were en route to the United States to load up on what he described as the world's best and highest-quality energy resources. "We have more oil than the next two largest oil economies combined and higher quality," Trump wrote on Truth Social the previous day, promoting quick turnaround for shipments.

Trump pivoted to his administration's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, an executive action he said he took upon returning to the White House in January 2025. "It used to be called the Gulf of Mexico, that's what I can tell you. Now it's called the Gulf of America, because of me. One of my little things that I did," he told Bartiromo. He justified the...