Article in NOTUS by Dave Levinthal, 9/11/25
Headline: “Behind the Apparent Media Blackout Around Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ Name Change”
Subhead: “New internal emails obtained by NOTUS detail confusion at the U.S. Geological Survey and the State Department.”
“Three days after Donald Trump’s inauguration as president, a State Department official sent a seemingly exasperated email to Michael Tischler, director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Geospatial Program.
“The problem: How to manage press inquiries ‘left and right’ about Trump’s plan to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of America’. . .”
Read the full article at:
https://www.notus.org/donald-trump/gulf-of-america-mexico-name-change-foia-documents