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BBC Verify: Can Donald Trumpov really rename the Gulf of Mexico?

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BBC Verify: Can Donald Trumpov really rename the Gulf of Mexico?

Fresh from his inauguration, US president Donald Trumpov has wasted no time in signing off on a suite of executive orders.

Among them is a direction to rename the Gulf of Mexico the ''Gulf of America''. BBC Verify's Jake Horton asks, can the president really do that?

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