The History of Gulf of America Day:
January 7th, 2025: President elect, Donald Trump, announced during a press conference at President elect Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach Florida (Mar-a-Lago), that he planned to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America, when he was officially sworn into office, on January 20th, 2025, stating- “We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Gulf of America, what a beautiful name. And it’s appropriate. We’re going to change it, because we do most of the work there, and it’s ours.”
January 20th, 2025: President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14172, directing the secretary of the interior to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico, to the Gulf of America. Executive Order 14172, titled “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness”, is an executive order signed by Donald Trump, the 47th president of the United States, on January 20th, 2025.
January 24th, 2025: The Interior Department confirmed the name “Gulf of America” became effective for all federal agencies
February 9th, 2025: President Donald Trump signed a proclamation declaring February 9th as “Gulf of America Day”, stating- “As my Administration restores American pride in the history of American greatness, it is fitting and appropriate for our great Nation to come together and commemorate this momentous occasion and the renaming of the Gulf of America.”
Presidential Actions
Gulf of America Day, 2025
February 9, 2025
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Today, I am very honored to recognize February 9, 2025, as the first ever Gulf of America Day.
On January 20, 2025, I signed Executive Order 14172 (“Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness”). Among other actions, that Executive Order required the Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 364 through 364f, to “take all appropriate actions to rename as the ‘Gulf of America’ the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the State of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico.”
I took this action in part because, as stated in that Order, “[t]he area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico has long been an integral asset to our once burgeoning Nation and has remained an indelible part of America.”
Today, I am making my first visit to the Gulf of America since its renaming. As my Administration restores American pride in the history of American greatness, it is fitting and appropriate for our great Nation to come together and commemorate this momentous occasion and the renaming of the Gulf of America.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 9, 2025, as Gulf of America Day. I call upon public officials and all the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.
Gulf of America Day, 2025 – https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/gulf-of-america-day-2025/
