The history of the world is a struggle for the power of naming. We are in the middle of such a struggle today.”

Welcome to the Gulf of America, at the mouth of the America river, east of the America mountains, and west of the America peninsula. If that statement sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. Yet this is just the direction President Donald Trump’s Jan.

The president barred The Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One because the news agency took a principled stand by refusing to refer to the water body as the Gulf of America in its reporting. This came after the president issued an executive order changing the name that had been in place for 400 years.