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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Graig Graziosi

Apple bends the knee and switches to ‘Gulf of America’ after Trump’s order

Apple Maps has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America," falling in line with an executive order Donald Trump issued demanding the name change.

Trump said just before his inauguration he wanted to change the name, and quickly did so after he took office. The president's rationale for changing the name was that the U.S. does more work on the gulf than any other nation, and thus he declared flatly: “It's ours."

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