Weeks before retaking office, Trump decided to add the measure to his Day 1 agenda, elevating a liberal joke that had become a conservative meme into an action that has come to symbolize the tenor of his term.

The MAGA influencer who first non-satirically floated the idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico can’t believe President Donald Trump has officially made it the Gulf of America. “I can’t stop laughing at it that he actually signed an executive order.

President Donald Trump's push to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" is drawing plenty of mockery from his critics, who consider it a silly and pointless exercise in language policing — something MAGA Republicans often accuse the left of doing.