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

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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."

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.

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.

President-elect Donald Trump has floated the idea of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Here's why that could cause some confusion. (Scripps News West Palm Beach)