Donald Trump, on river names, says "somebody said, ‘You need a river’"
“We’ve got the Gulf, we’ve got a beautiful lake, and now somebody said, ‘You need a river.’”
— Donald Trump, President
Reported October 11, 2026 by el-balad.com. Checked word for word against that report.
✦ Summary · October 11, 2026 AI-written summary of the news — not a direct quote
On Saturday evening in Clarksville, Tennessee, Donald Trump told a rally he was considering renaming an ocean before leaving office in 2028, suggesting either the Atlantic or Pacific could become Trump Ocean or Ocean of the Americas, though he did not choose one. He also addressed river names, saying he would keep the Hudson and Mississippi rivers as they are. The comments follow his earlier renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and Lake Ontario as Lake America. The river names appear settled, while the ocean proposal remains unresolved.
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- el-balad.com ↗︎11 OCT 2026