President Donald Trump has been on something of a geographic renaming spree, and he apparently considered adding the Atlantic Ocean to the list. But Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) and (GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai talked him out of it.

Trump Considered Renaming The Atlantic Ocean

Speaking at a rally at Clemson University in South Carolina on Tuesday evening, Trump said he wanted to name more major bodies of water after America, Variety reported on Thursday.

"We have a lake. And we have a gulf. Now we need a river and we need an ocean," Trump told the crowd.

He added that he would only consider renaming the Atlantic or Pacific oceans, saying, "I'm not gonna put either 'Trump' or 'America' on any other ocean but these two."

Trump said he had seriously considered renaming the Atlantic Ocean and contacted Pichai to ask whether Google Maps could accommodate the change.

According to Trump, he asked the Google CEO, "Sundar, I'm thinking of the Atlantic Ocean. Can you handle it?"

Pichai pushed back, explaining that oceans differ from other geographic features because they span multiple countries.

"No, no, no — this time I'm not doing it… Oceans are different, sir. They cover really a lot of countries. Please don't ask us to do that," Trump recalled Pichai saying.

Trump said the conversation had made him reconsider the proposal, adding that he would "probably pass" on renaming the Atlantic Ocean.

The White House and Google did not immediately respond to MarketDash's request for comment.

Google Maps Reflects Trump's Previous Name Changes

The proposal follows two other naming changes highlighted by Trump. In 2025, he moved to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

In August 2026, amid a trade dispute with Canada, he ordered Lake Ontario to be called Lake America.

Google Maps displays the Trump-designated names for the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario to users in the U.S., while retaining the more familiar names in parentheses in search results.

However, changing a name in U.S. government records does not automatically make it internationally recognized, particularly when multiple countries share a geographic feature.

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