TRUMP PLANS TO CHANGE NAME OF ATLANTIC OCEAN TO "AMERICAN OCEAN"

WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 23 /SRNA - RIA Novosti/ - US President Donald Trump has said he intends to change the name of the Atlantic Ocean to the "American Ocean" as early as Monday, October 26.

"I am pleased to announce that on Monday morning we will be changing the name of the Atlantic Ocean to the American Ocean," Trump said at a campaign rally in the state of Iowa.

He said that, following the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and Lake Ontario to Lake America, the United States had neither an ocean nor a river of its own.

Trump has previously floated the idea of renaming the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean in his honor or in honor of America. He has also proposed renaming the Strait of Hormuz the "Trump Strait".