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I don't honestly see a big issue with this. First of all: It's called Gulf of America, not Gulf of USA. Considering it's a gulf between south and north American continents it's actually a more fitting name and in no way excludes Mexico.
And secondly, you can just move on with your life and keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico and everyone will perfectly understand what you mean. Nobody is holding a gun to your head and telling you to adopt the new name. Same applies to Twitter and Facebook too for example.
The "big issue" with this it that it is being done entirely to appease the vain whims of an egocentric wannabe dictator, and for no other reason.
Give them a few months
Allright. Let's revisit this in 6 months to see what happened - or didn't.
Changing facts to suit a nationalist and fascist state, purely for jingoism, is appeasement.
This doesn't really have anything to do with facts, though. Names of people, objects and places change all the time.
Yes, based on nationalist reasons, to chnage facts to suit governments.
This is no different to google kowtowing to China's imagined borders.
The fact is the worls knows this is the Gulf of Mexico. Not whatever Trump imagines it to be callled. Denali is still Denali, as well.
+1. Couldn't care less. My life will go on. I'm not going to use GMaps anyway.