President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is planning on changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America."

President-elect Donald Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America." Social media has opinions.

AUSTIN - On the heels of President-elect Donald Trump's proposal of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” Governor Greg Abbott weighed in with h

President-elect Donald J. Trump said Tuesday that he planned to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” one of several foreign policy proposals that left world leaders reeling. “It has a beautiful ring,” he said of the proposed name change for the body of water that borders several U.S. and Mexican states.

Mexico's president sarcastically said that the U.S. should be called "Mexican America" after Trump's vow to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America."

For decades, history books and maps have labeled the big body of water that sits off the coast of the southern United States and Mexico as the Gulf of Mexico.

It was Spanish mapmakers after Hernán Cortés in 1519 conquered the land now called Mexico who started linking the water body with the Mēxihcah, which is what Aztecs called themselves. Initially, the Spanish called the Gulf "Mexican Sound.