{"id":1836707,"date":"2025-02-15T15:34:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T20:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1836707"},"modified":"2025-02-15T15:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T20:34:04","slug":"is-gulf-of-mexico-worth-fighting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/02\/is-gulf-of-mexico-worth-fighting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Is ‘Gulf of Mexico’ Worth Fighting For?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Associated Press is now banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely<\/a> for refusing to toe the Trump line on \u201cGulf of America.\u201d The Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s Erik Wemple thinks this is a hill worth dying on<\/a>: \u201cOn this particular hill, we have the freedom to make editorial choices without government intervention and manipulation.\u201d On the other hand, The Atlantic<\/em>\u2019s Gilad Edelman thinks this was the wrong fight to pick<\/a>: \u201cA huge share of Trump\u2019s actions over the past four weeks fall somewhere on the spectrum from \u2018legally questionable\u2019 to \u2018plainly unconstitutional.\u2019 The \u2018Gulf of America\u2019 rebrand is not one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making you make me shows everyone who you are. There\u2019s something to be said for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously:\u00a0Naming the Gulf<\/a>;\u00a0Google Maps to Use \u2018Gulf of America\u2019\u2013Others Not So Much<\/a>;\u00a0More Reactions to \u2018Gulf of America\u2019<\/a>;\u00a0Google and the Gulf<\/a>;\u00a0\u2018Gulf of America\u2019: Apple Conforms, AP Punished for Not Doing So<\/a>; \u2018Gulf of America\u2019 Isn\u2019t Going Over Well<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press is now banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely for refusing to toe the Trump line on \u201cGulf of America.\u201d The Washington Post\u2019s Erik Wemple thinks this is a… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[490,692],"tags":[1719,448],"class_list":["post-1836707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-censorship","category-toponyms","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-trump","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1836778,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/02\/gulf-of-america-compliance-and-resistance\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836707,"position":0},"title":"‘Gulf of America’: Compliance and Resistance","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 February 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Apple Maps (screenshot) Compliance While it was reported that Apple would comply with the \u201cGulf of America\u201d renaming, I wasn\u2019t sure what Apple would do outside the U.S.; now it appears that it will follow Google\u2019s lead and show both names. 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