"But the town handed Trump a rare defeat last week when town commissioners voted unanimously not to rename the island's main thoroughfare from Gulf of Mexico Drive to Gulf of America Drive. (Even though Florida Department of Transportation crews had already started taking down the Gulf of Mexico street signs.) The commissioners cited public opposition - 83% of citizen emails were opposed to the change - and the hassle that renaming would cause for the road's residents and businesses."
"But it also proved to be an early test of how institutions would - or would not - stand up to unilateral presidential action without precedent. Google, Apple, and Microsoft all got in line. But news organizations, for the most part, did not. I asked more than a dozen of them, and nearly all who got back to me said they were sticking with Gulf of Mexico. (The exception: newspaper chain Gannett, which said it would use both.)"
Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' early in his presidency. Florida Department of Transportation crews began replacing Gulf of Mexico street signs. Longboat Key town commissioners unanimously voted not to rename the island's main thoroughfare, citing 83% opposition in citizen emails and the inconvenience to residents and businesses. The new name has not widely caught on in popular usage. Major tech companies such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft adopted the change, while most news organizations continued to use 'Gulf of Mexico' (with Gannett using both). A federal court said he couldn't block Associated Press reporters from the Oval Office.
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