Trump claims Google CEO talked him out of his hopes to rename the Atlantic Ocean

President Trump says Google's chief executive, Sundar Pichai, steered him away from renaming the Atlantic Ocean. He made the claim at Clemson University in South Carolina, while rallying voters behind Senator Graham before the midterm elections. Trump said he had given the Atlantic serious thought, but that Pichai told him oceans touch many countries and asked him not to pursue it, so he will probably pass, according to The Independent.

Trump instead floated calling the Pacific the American Ocean, wondering aloud how Europe would react, though Europe sits on the Atlantic rather than the Pacific. He cast it as the follow-up to his gulf and lake orders, saying a river and an ocean were still needed.

Those earlier changes drew pushback. Prime Minister Mark Carney said the lake remains Lake Ontario, “today and forever.” The Associated Press sued administration officials after being barred from some press events for not adopting Gulf of America. Trump has also mused about a Trump Strait for the Strait of Hormuz, central to the U.S. war with Iran, but said he would leave the Hudson River alone.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Independent’s reporting. Read the full story at The Independent →