Donald Trump: "And, you know, they're still rattled from the Gulf. And I said, 'Sundar, I'm…"

At a South Carolina rally on Wednesday, President Donald Trump recounted weighing a change to the Atlantic Ocean’s name and said he would likely drop it after Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, as Trump described the conversation, cautioned that oceans span many nations and advised against it. Trump tied the exchange to his earlier description of changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name to the Gulf of America, and he also said he had considered giving American names to rivers such as the Hudson and Mississippi before deciding not to. The comments came alongside other statements about geographic names, including a Monday social-media call for New Mexico to be renamed because, he argued, it is part of the United States.