A man can leave the show, but the show jams the man. The phrase does not go like that but that applies with Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States, who will be sworn in as president on January 20th and who on Tuesday said that he wants to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, but which gulf?
It is well known that every time Trump opens his mouth, it is to set fire not only to social networks, but to the world. He loves it.
Well, during a press conference on Tuesday at his mansion in Florida, the former host of the show "The Apprentice" said: "We're going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the 'Gulf of America,' which sounds great and covers a lot of territory. What a beautiful name. And it's appropriate, it really is." Donald Trump, January 2025.
Not at all relevant.
But although the human being has never understood that America is the continent and not just the United States, today it is necessary to explain the name of the Gulf of Mexico, and no, we are not talking about Pancho Villa, we will do that later.
The Gulf of Mexico is a semi-enclosed sea of 1.5 million square kilometers that is part of the Wider Caribbean region. It is considered the largest protected water basin in the Atlantic Ocean and is shared by Mexico, the United States and Cuba.
The Gulf of Mico was formed approximately 300 million years ago as a result of plate tectonics; and although there is no precise historical record of who or who gave the name "Gulf of Mico" to this body of water, it is believed that it was named as such by the first Spanish explorers and colonizers who arrived in the region in the 16th century.