Gov. Ron DeSantis may have been the first official to use President's Trump's new name for the Gulf of Mexico in an official capacity.

President Donald Trump ordered the Gulf of Mexico renamed, and Gov. DeSantis officially refers to it in a state document.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already embraced the change. He cited the new name in an executive order earlier this week attributing inclement winter weather to a “low pressure moving across the Gulf of America.

Ron DeSantis made his state the first to reference the "Gulf of America" in an executive ... and also names some of them.The United States and Mexico are both active members of the organization.It ...

Google said the name changes, which also includes using Mount McKinley, will happen when Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated.

Ron DeSantis ... of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America” for use on official maps and throughout the federal government. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names is the federal office with the power to rename geographic places in the United States.

In a statement explaining its decision, the AP said Trump has the authority to change the mountain’s name, but the gulf is a global name

(RELATED: Trump says he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico) “Recognizing the Gulf’s enduring contributions to the economic strength and vitality of the United States, President Trump ...

Changing the name of the Gulf as it is used in the United States is within the administration’s power. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has already started using the name “Gulf of America ...

The water bordered by the Southern United States ... Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis put the Trumpian “Gulf of America” on an official document and some other gulf-adjacent states were considering ...

Ron DeSantis put the Trumpian ... surrounding what the United States calls the South China Sea have multiple names for the same body of water. The Persian Gulf has been widely known by that ...

Florida lawmakers defied DeSantis and approved their own version of sweeping immigration reforms amid a GOP power struggle.