President Donald Trump has set his sights on the map again — this time on the world's biggest bodies of water.
Speaking at a midterm rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, on Saturday, Trump told the crowd he wants an ocean renamed before he leaves the White House, floating two options for either the Atlantic or the Pacific: "Trump Ocean" or "Ocean of the Americas."
"So we need a river and we need an ocean," Trump said. "I was thinking either the Atlantic or the Pacific. We call it Trump Ocean, or Ocean of the Americas. Something like that."
The crowd roared its approval. "Before I get out, I think we should have an ocean," he added. "And we need a great river."
Not every waterway is on the chopping block. Trump ruled out renaming the Hudson River — "Henry Hudson, he did a good job sailing up that sucker a long time ago" — and said he is not touching the Mississippi either. "I love Mississippi. We won that state by so much."
The riff was classic off-script Trump, not a formal policy announcement — no executive order, no timeline, and no decision on which ocean would get the honor. But it fits a pattern. Early in his second term he ordered federal agencies to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. In August he renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America after the Canada-U.S. trade deal collapsed, demonstrating it by taking a Sharpie to a map on camera. He also restored the name Mount McKinley to North America's tallest peak, reversing the Obama-era change to Denali.
The reaction was swift. MapQuest, the mapping service, answered with a Tony Stark eye-roll meme on X — the same company that refused to switch Lake Ontario to Lake America in August, posting: "We're not changing it."
The Clarksville stop at the F&M Bank Arena — only the second presidential visit to the city in modern history — was part of Trump's aggressive midterm travel schedule ahead of the November 3 elections. He urged Republicans to turn out, promised $5,000 to every adult American if the GOP wins both chambers of Congress, and even brought Kid Rock onstage.
Whether the Atlantic stays the Atlantic, one thing is clear: the president is not done redrawing the map.