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President Donald Trump chose the perfect time to sign a proclamation on Sunday, declaring February 9, 2025 as the first ever Gulf of America Day.
He did it at the very moment Air Force One was flying over the area, which had previously been known as the Gulf of Mexico.
Trump renamed the gulf in an executive order on January 20, the day of his inauguration.
While he was en route to New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl game on Sunday, Trump spoke to reporters from his desk aboard Air Force One, an signed the proclamation.
The pilot announced over the intercom that they were flying over the recently re-named Gulf of America for the first time.
President @realDonaldTrump signs a Proclamation declaring February 9, 2025 as the first ever Gulf of America Day 🇺🇸
Listen as Air Force One announces a flyover of Gulf of America en route to Super Bowl LIX! pic.twitter.com/fNk0e6l7dL
— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) February 9, 2025
Trump oldest daughter, Ivanka, who was also on board, posted a video as she focused the camera outside toward the Gulf of America.
🔊Aboard Air Force One en route to the Super Bowl ✈️ pic.twitter.com/kIG6gLnAEz
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) February 9, 2025
The proclamation, posted to the White House website as soon as Trump signed it, reads:
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.
HAPPY GULF OF AMERICA DAY! pic.twitter.com/xmsFDUjkXB
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 9, 2025
✈️MOMENTS AGO ON AF1: President Trump signed a Proclamation declaring February 9th “Gulf of America Day” while flying over the newly and appropriately named GULF OF AMERICA! 🇺🇸
📸: @dto_rok pic.twitter.com/BA1f5VF3ft
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 9, 2025
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced, “It’s official! Congratulations
@POTUS on the Gulf of America! @Interior has implemented your instruction from the Executive Order on Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness. Another big win for President Trump’s agenda to Make America Great Again. 🇺🇸”
It’s official! Congratulations @POTUS on the Gulf of America! @Interior has implemented your instruction from the Executive Order on Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness. Another big win for President Trump’s agenda to Make America Great Again. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/nZtkDQTFO3
— Secretary Doug Burgum (@SecretaryBurgum) February 9, 2025
Burgum explained that the map makers will now display it as the Gulf of America for maps printed and released within the United States.
Other countries may still label it as the Gulf of Mexico on their maps.
Burgum says he’s informing the map providers as of today of the U.S. name change. (If memory serves, they’ll display it as Gulf of America within the US and Gulf of Mexico in other countries.) pic.twitter.com/JlH5E9lgh7
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) February 9, 2025
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