US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (October 21) that Google CEO Sundar Pichai had turned down his request to rename the Atlantic Ocean the “American Ocean,” saying the company had told him that oceans “are different” because they touch many countries.
Trump, speaking at a campaign rally in South Carolina, said he had called Google, which owns Google Maps, about the idea and later said he would “probably pass” and keep the name Atlantic, before saying, “We’re going to call it the American Ocean.”
Google, owned by Alphabet, changed the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” on its maps for US users after Trump ordered the change in January 2025.
