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Trump wants to change New Mexico's name to "New America"

Observador7 September 2026 at 08:35

Trump expressed the intention to change New Mexico's name to "New America". This proposal comes in the context of Trump government policies related to immigration.

Trump has authority to modify names of geographic entities in the Geographic Names Information System, which is a federal database that documents place names in the United States.

However, the United States Constitution does not grant the president powers to legally change the names of states. Any formal name change of a state would require approval through a legislative process or a vote by the citizens of that state.

This situation illustrates the difference between Trump's limited executive authority to change names in federal records and the impossibility of implementing formal changes to state names without due legal process.

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