Mapmakers and teachers are rethinking what to call the body of water between Mexico, the U.S. and Cuba after President Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) started using the term “Gulf of America” to refer to the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, one day after President Trump signed an executive order setting in motion the

Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes "southerly down the thread of the main stream of said Suwannee River to the Gulf of Mexico; thence along said Gulf of Mexico, including the waters of said gulf within the jurisdiction of the State of Florida, to the mouth of the Steinhatchee River."

President Trump may have signed an executive order this week to officially rename the Gulf of Mexico, but it was Stephen Colbert who first proposed the idea some fifteen years ago (and we've got the 'Colbert Report' clip to prove it).

The Coast Guard is sending additional resources to at least four other maritime borders as well, including waterways around Florida.

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Mexican president says President Trump can call the gulf whatever he wants but that the world will still call it the Gulf of Mexico.

Federal changes have to be made, but other countries and private companies can keep using "Gulf of Mexico." Here's why.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida referred to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” in a state executive order on Monday, even before President Trump had taken any presidential action to rename the body of water.

Among the first executive orders signed by President Donald Trump was an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the newly named "Gulf of America." "President Trump is bringing common sense to government and renewing the pillars of American civilization,

Among the first executive orders signed by President Trump was an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America."