Trump wanted a ‘Trump Ocean’ on Google Maps. He says CEO Sundar Pichai shut it down
Source: Fortune ·
After relabeling the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario for U.S. users, Google has reportedly balked at an ocean. A shared ocean is a different legal animal.
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President Donald Trump has another body of water in mind for a name change: the Atlantic Ocean. But this time, he says, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told him no. “We seriously looked at the Atlantic Ocean, and I called Google Maps, who were really great with the lake,” Trump said at a rally in Pendleton, S.C., on Wednesday. “No, no, no. This time, I’m not doing it,” Trump recalled Pichai saying. According to Trump, Pichai explained that oceans span multiple countries and urged him, “Please don’t ask us to do that.” “Should I pass on… I think let’s keep it the Atlantic Ocean, right?” Trump asked the crowd. But Trump wasn’t finished with the oceans. He then floated renaming the Pacific the “American Ocean” and asked how Europe would feel about it, though no part of Europe borders the Pacific. It wasn’t the first time Trump had raised the idea. At a rally in Dalton, Ga., last Friday, Trump said he had asked Google about renaming either the Atlantic or the Pacific the “Trump Ocean.” “You…