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Axios Caves To Trump, Will Refer To Gulf Of Mexico As 'Gulf Of America'
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As reporters for The Associated Press have been shut out from the White House for not abiding by the name change, Axios has decided to fall in line with Trump.
Axios will obey President Donald Trump’s order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” the publication said in a statement Friday.
“Our top priority at Axios is to provide readers with clinical, fact-based reporting,” Axios said in a statement. “Our standard is to use ‘Gulf of America (renamed by U.S. from Gulf of Mexico)’ in our reporting because our audience is mostly U.S.-based compared to other publishers with international audiences.”
After taking office last month, Trump signed an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”
“The Gulf of America ― what a beautiful name,” Trump said during a news conference in early January. “And it’s appropriate. We do most of the work there. It’s ours.”
Following the order, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it would be changing the name to “Gulf of America” in all future charts and maps. And tech giants Google and Apple also announced they would change the name.