As United States President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term on Monday, he repeated his wishes to acquire the Panama Canal and rename the Gulf of Mexico in his inaugural speech. Trump has spoken about the canal and the Gulf of Mexico previously. On Monday, he signalled he was serious about moving ahead with both those ideas – and soon.

President Donald Trump came out swinging in a combative inaugural speech in which he affirmed plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico and regain control of the Panama Canal. Trump declared that under his watch,

President Donald Trump has been promising a flurry of executive action on Day 1, and even as he was being sworn in, there were executive orders already prepared for his signature. Those orders will end diversity,

In his inaugural speech, President Donald Trump repeated his plan to regain control of the Panama Canal. Can he?

Trump’s plans to rename the gulf appear to be part of a broader offensive against Mexico, calling the nation "very dangerous" and "in a lot of trouble," citing drug trafficking and illegal immigration. However, most drug trafficking from Mexico is aimed at fulfilling consumer demand from Americans.

US President Donald Trump announced plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico and claimed America would reclaim the Panama Canal.

Wresting back control of the Panama Canal, renaming the Gulf of Mexico and exiting from the Paris Agreement were three of the shipping takeaways in the first hours following the inauguration of Donald Trump yesterday as the 47th president of the United States.

It has been nearly 80 years since the United States expanded its territory, and there are increasing signs that President Donald Trump intends to change that. After what seemed in his first term like a lark about claiming Greenland, Trump has doubled down on that and other expansionist ideas.

He views Mexico as a source of unwanted migration, drugs and Chinese goods, Canada as a liberal dystopia and Greenland as a weak link. Some of his remarks are bluster. The Gulf of Mexico, he says, should be renamed the Gulf of America.

The Gulf of Mexico has had its name since before the ... former president Theodore Roosevelt, to build the Panama Canal, which Trump repeated was “foolishly … given to the country of Panama.”

Among the orders Trump will sign, is one renaming the Gulf of Mexico. Trump said during his ... and called for Panama to return the Panama Canal. Since his first run for the White House in ...

Claudia Sheinbaum's statement comes after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to officially rename the body of water