Donald Trump suggests renaming the Atlantic Ocean at Mississippi rally

United States President Donald Trump has suggested renaming the Atlantic Ocean the American Ocean at a Republican rally in Mississippi, Al Jazeera reported. According to Al Jazeera, Trump stated that the United States needs an ocean and a river to match a lake and a gulf that he has already renamed. [1]

Related coverage from Men's Journal and The Next Web reported that Trump previously claimed Sundar Pichai, the chief executive officer of Google, spoke with him about the idea and asked him not to rename the ocean. Celebitchy also reported that Trump asked Google to rename the body of water the Trump Ocean. [4][5][6]

As FTMQ News reported earlier, Trump proposed renaming either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean at a rally in Clarksville, Tennessee. During that earlier speech, he suggested the names Trump Ocean or Ocean of the Americas while ruling out changing the names of the Hudson or Mississippi rivers. [11]

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean in the world, covering an area of roughly 85,133,000 square kilometers, or approximately 32,870,000 square miles. It accounts for about 17 percent of the surface of the Earth and around 24 percent of its water surface area. [7]