Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" highlights the politics of map naming, sparking debates, social media snark, and mixed reactions globally and domestically.
President Trump’s territorial assertions sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social media and sarcasm by at least one other world leader.
It started after the election, as political chatter bled into BookTok ... not just in the United States, but in the world at large,” the author, who is Black, says. “People do not like ...