Trump Wants an Ocean Named After Him... and 'Google': Enough!

U.S. President Donald Trump said he proposed that Google rename either the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean as the “Trump Ocean,” but the company rejected the idea, according to his account during an election rally in Georgia on Friday.

Trump clarified in remarks to his supporters that he had sent company representatives a map labeled “Trump Ocean,” but was met with rejection. He quoted Google representatives as saying, in an angry tone, that they had had enough of such proposals and would not proceed with any further ones.

The U.S. president added that he was joking this time, but noted that renaming an ocean after himself was not, in his words, the worst idea he had ever come up with.

These remarks come amid Trump’s previous efforts to change the names of geographic locations. In 2025, he issued an executive order mandating the renaming of the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.” He also announced, according to the report, the naming of Lake Ontario—located on the border between the United States and Canada—as “Lake America.”

Google adopted the new name for the gulf on its maps for users in the United States, and made related adjustments to geographic names approved by the U.S. administration.

Trump has long expressed interest in renaming geographic landmarks with names associated with him or the United States. He previously suggested naming the Strait of Hormuz the “Trump Strait,” a move the report linked to escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran.

It remains unclear whether Google issued an official comment regarding the proposal to rename an ocean.