TX GOP rep. calls for 'naming everything American' after Trump changes Gulf of Mexico

Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) called for "naming everything American" after President Donald Trump ordered the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed to the "Gulf of America."

In an executive order this week, Trump gave the secretary of the Interior 30 days to "take all appropriate actions to rename as the 'Gulf of America' the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico."

He also said Danali would be named "Mount McKinley" and called for "taking back" the Panama Canal.

"I don't know what happened in the past, but President Trump is right for that, renaming the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America," Hunt told Fox News on Tuesday. "You know, I'm a patriot. I'm a combat veteran."

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"I love the idea of naming everything American, if you ask me," he added. "But these are the kind of issues, the culture issues that people want to see, putting our country first. That's exactly what he is signaling by some of these decisions."

Fox News host Steve Doocy joked: "He owns a bunch of golf courses. Maybe he was saying Golf of America, not Gulf."

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