President Donald Trump is reportedly considering renaming New Mexico "New America" as part of his ongoing efforts to rebrand American geography. This move follows previous changes he made to the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario, and Alaska's Denali mountain, which was renamed Mount McKinley in an executive order signed in January 2025. The proposal has sparked backlash from some, including the group Republicans Against Trump. Tech giants Apple and Google have already updated their maps apps to reflect the new name, but MapQuest refused to do so, instead offering users a version with both names.
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President Donald Trump has already changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, and now he’s targeting a US state for a rebrand.
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he → change → rebrand
Trump is spending the holiday weekend dreaming up his next demand to relabel America’s geography.
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Trump → spend → geography
He posted a map on Truth Social Sunday afternoon of New Mexico, but the word Mexico was crossed out and replaced with America.
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word → post → America
Relabeling the southwestern state on the U.S.-Mexico border as New America is reminiscent of an executive order he signed early in his second term, in which he changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
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he → relabele → America
In that January 2025 executive order titled “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness,” Trump also changed the name of North America’s tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, back to Mount McKinley.
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Trump → title → McKinley
Trump’s controversial relabeling of America’s geography didn’t stop there.
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relabeling → stop → geography
The president signed an executive order late last month changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America amid an escalating trade war with Canada.
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president → sign → Canada
Despite Trump repeatedly suggesting Canada become the nation’s 51st state, he recently told Fox News, “They think they’re a state, but they’re not a state.
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they → suggest → News
Why should we be subsidizing Canada?”
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we → subsidize → Canada
Like Trump’s previous name changes on the U.S. map, his latest push to relabel New Mexico is sure to receive a wave of backlash.
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push → relabel → backlash
The group Republicans Against Trump was quick to post on X following Trump’s suggested name change of New Mexico, writing, “WTF is wrong with him?”
When the president relabeled Lake Ontario, MapQuest refused to change its navigation app, writing on X, “We’re not changing it.”
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We → post → it
MapQuest then saw a surge in App Store rankings, with the company’s general manager Doug Berger saying, “We took the same approach we did with the Gulf of Mexico: be part of the conversation, and give people an app that keeps the names they're familiar with.
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they → see → names
“Hundreds of thousands of people signaled to us this weekend that we got it right, by downloading our app.”
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it → signal → app
But tech giants Apple and Google caved to Trump, switching the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America for U.S. users of their maps apps, just as they did when the president demanded that the Gulf of Mexico be changed to the Gulf of America.
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Gulf → cave → America
Conservative journalist Eric Daugherty, however, was seemingly on board with the relabeling of New Mexico, writing on X, “This man is on a roll!”
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man → write → roll
Trump’s ambitions to remake Washington, D.C., and the rest of the U.S. as he sees fit apparently go beyond the country, and even the world.
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he → remake → country
Shortly after Trump’s post about relabeling New Mexico, he shared an image of the moon on Truth Social, with the caption “The moon is ours.”
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moon → relabele → caption
The 80-year-old leader has been heavily focused on his legacy during his second term, not just with changes to the map, but with renovations to the White House, including his massive and expensive ballroom, and the broader D.C. area.
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leader → focus → ballroom
He’s also slapped his name and face on several buildings in the nation’s capital, most notably the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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He → slap → Arts
But a federal judge demanded his name be taken down from the center, and it was removed.
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it → demand → center
Meanwhile, 73 percent of Americans say Trump hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems, according to a CNN poll conducted by research firm SSRS and published in late July.
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Trump → say → July
