(25 Jan 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Galveston, Texas – 24 January 2025
1. Mid of tourists sightseeing by Sea Wall in Galveston
2. Mid of shoreline
3. Mid of dolphins swimming
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Coleton Wilcox, Galveston resident:
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"My whole family’s had a history of boats in this area in the Gulf of Mexico so if it changes to Gulf of America, it wouldn’t affect me. It sounds great since I’ve been spending every 4th of July just about my whole life on the Gulf of Mexico and it would be great to spend 4th of July on the Gulf of America, sounds like fun.”
5. Mid of birds flying
6. Various of ships
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Galveston, Texas – 23 January 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Vern Packard, Galveston visitor:
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“President Trump does a lot of things that people like, and a lot of people don’t like. That’s what we get when we get a non-politician, but a businessman in as president, so we got to just put on our seatbelts and ready for the ride.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Galveston, Texas – 24 January 2025
8. Mid of boat speeding off
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Reid, Galveston visitor:
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“It’s going to ruffle some feathers, but anytime you introduce change to the masses, it causes ripples into the effect of things in society so I’m sure it’ll upset some people, but it’s really not that big of a deal. I mean, it’s just a body of water. It’s not going anywhere.”
10. Mid of birds
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Reid, Galveston Visitor:
“Well, when you look at the way the world is. China’s trying to get Taiwan. You’ve got other countries trying to step over their borders and take a little piece of land. It kind of would seem to fit that America steps out and takes a little bit more just like everybody else.”
12. Wide of tourist on beach
STORYLINE:
Among the executive orders signed by U.S. President Donald Trump following his inauguration was one calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America.
It says that within 30 days, the interior secretary will rename “the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba.”
Visitors taking in the view of the Gulf in Galveston, Texas, on Friday weren’t sure what to make of the president’s decision.
One of them accepted that the move was likely to upset some people, but really wasn’t a "big deal", while another pointed out that Trump’s actions often divided people, adding that "we got to just put on our seatbelts and (get) ready for the ride.”
And a third visitor pointed out there were other countries in the world who did the same, so it "would seem to fit that America steps out and takes a little bit more just like everybody else”.
Trump’s order only carries authority within the United States and Mexico, as well as other countries and international bodies, do not have to recognize the name change.
The Associated Press will refer to it by its original name while acknowledging the new name Trump has chosen.
As a global news agency that disseminates news around the world, the AP must ensure that place names and geography are easily recognizable to all audiences.
The Gulf of Mexico, which shares borders between the U.S. and Mexico, has carried that name for more than 400 years.
The president first brought up the idea to rename the body of water during a news conference earlier this month.
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