The President of the United States, Donald Trump, expressed interest in changing the name of an American state, according to information released by the White House. The article's title suggests it is not about New Mexico, leaving open which state would be in question.
This would not be the first time the Trump administration interferes in geographic denominations. Recently, the Gulf of Mexico was renamed to "Gulf of America" by the American government. Similarly, Lake Ontario would also have undergone a name change under the same administration.
The White House appears to be conducting a kind of "geographic battlefront" when it comes to place names, modifying non-American denominations to ones that reference the United States.
The article, published in Portuguese, highlights this pattern of behavior of the current North American administration regarding toponymy, suggesting that changing a state's name would be an extension of this geographic renaming policy.
