Critics wasted no time sinking Donald Trump’s latest renaming idea.
The president floated the possibility of rechristening either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean during a campaign rally in Tennessee on Saturday.
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“We’ve got the Gulf, we’ve got a beautiful lake, and now someone said, ‘You need a river,’” he claimed. “So, we need a river, we need an ocean. So, I was thinking of either the Atlantic or the Pacific.”
“We call it Trump Ocean or Ocean of the Americas, something like that,” Trump added.
Trump says he may change the name of the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean to “Trump Ocean” pic.twitter.com/X6eEnrwFXp
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 10, 2026
The president has already used executive orders to attempt to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” and Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” although the orders can’t force other countries to follow his lead.
He has also talked about renaming the state of New Mexico as “New America.”
But his latest proposal quickly made waves with critics, and sunk like a lead balloon.
The press office for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) questioned Trump’s priorities, noting on X that “gas is almost $5 a gallon.”
Others flooded social media with mocking suggestions for what Trump might try to rename next.
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Gas is almost $5 a gallon. https://t.co/TAkjB7ZeX9
— Governor Hochul Press Office (@NYGovPress) October 10, 2026
Here we go again https://t.co/U7jGHnWEiF
— Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari (@RepYassAnsari) October 10, 2026
Next he’s going to say “It will no longer be called EARTH. I declare it shall now be called PLANET TRUMP” and if you don’t follow that rule you are an enemy of the state. We live in the weirdest times ever.
— DebsForDems 💙 🦋🌱🌻 (@debsidoo222) October 10, 2026
Every day we get a new dumbest day in U.S. history. https://t.co/Tv5qis62xa
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) October 10, 2026
This is just pathetic. At a rally where he is supposed to be campaigning for GOP candidates, he of course only talks about himself.. the neediest most egotistical man on the planet.
MAGA.. this is what I voted for…
— Rodger Williams (@kiddwikked) October 10, 2026
Republican priorities:
Renaming bodies of water.
Continuing Trump’s war.
Hiking your costs.Nothing to make your life more affordable. https://t.co/bhMLkJd4PM
— Katherine Clark (@WhipKClark) October 11, 2026
Next president gets to rename this guy.
— Josh A (@JoshEAllen) October 10, 2026
Please can someone just gently take him away
— Robert Rea (@robertrea) October 10, 2026
Having your face permanently recorded on video nodding enthusiastically to renaming the Atlantic Ocean “Trump Ocean” is a level of public humiliation money can’t buy.
— Diana (@DianaWentThere) October 11, 2026
Not too long ago this would have been a comedically exaggerated way of depicting a man who’d gone insane with power. Now it’s just routine.
— Yankees Pirate (@GL2411) October 11, 2026
How long until he tries to rename Washington DC to Trumpville?
— Janice Hough (@leftcoastbabe) October 10, 2026
Can this guy do anything other than rename geographical features?
Like stop wars, enforce affordable healthcare, lower inflation?
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— Leo (@Leo33675_) October 10, 2026
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