Google said the change aligned with its policy of following official US government geographic designations. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Though U.S. maps will reflect Trump's new name for the body of water, the rest of the world will continue calling it the Gulf of Mexico

When Google announced it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, many Mexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted sigh.

Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on Monday.

Google said it would follow the Trump administration in renaming the Gulf of Mexico once the new name is updated in government sources.

On Monday, the biggest names in Silicon Valley, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, joined “First Buddy” Elon Musk to watch Trump be inaugurated as the 47th president. Musk later stole the headlines following an appearance at a rally in which he made an “odd salute”.

"As directed by the President, the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America," the Interior Department stated in a statement last week. Google responded by noting that the change complies with its longstanding policy of aligning map labeling with updates in official government databases.

An American Eagle jet and an Army helicopter collided over Washington on Wednesday night. The number of casualties is unclear, and a search-and-rescue mission is ongoing.

Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders as he looks to shake up the federal government during his second term in the White House. He has ordered workers back to the office; called on federal agencies to get rid of diversity, equity and inclusion programs; and warned employees to report efforts to disguise such programs or face consequences.

The latest turn in the ongoing saga over TikTok in the United States has brought the balance of power among the three branches of government into the spotlight.

President Donald Trump has the power to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, but whether people will call it that is an open question.