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Trump says Google’s Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean

Google relabelled the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario for US users. When Trump asked it to rename the Atlantic Ocean, its CEO said no, the president told a rally.

Tarun Mottlia

Via TNW | Google

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Trump says Google’s Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean
Image: President Donald Trump on 10 October 2026.

President Donald Trump on 10 October 2026.

“No, no, no. This time I’m not doing it... Oceans are different, sir.”

That is what Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said when Donald Trump asked him to rename the Atlantic Ocean, according to Trump. The president told the story at a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday.

Trump said Pichai told him that oceans “cover really a lot of countries”. He told the crowd he would “probably pass” on the idea.

“Please…

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