President-elect Donald Trump announced this week that the U.S. is going to rename the Gulf of Mexico once he takes office. No, this isn’t an Onion headline. I know. It’s really hard to separate the made-for-laughs headlines of fictitious Trump statements from the real ones he actually makes.

The Gulf of Mexico was named by cartographers because it was a body of water that lapped up on the eastern shore of Mexico when there was no United States. And even now, the Gulf coastline of Mexico is hundreds of miles longer than the Gulf coastline of the United States.

President-elect Donald Trump announced this week that the U.S. is going to rename the Gulf of Mexico once he takes office. No, this isn’t an Onion headline. I know. It’s really hard to ...

Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

President-elect Donald Trump took aim at Mexico again Tuesday boasting that he would rename the Gulf of Mexico in retaliation for his issues with Mexico.

I thought he meant Greenridge. Really! When our past-and-now-incoming commander-in-chief pronounced that he wants to annex a couple of huge parcels of land, I thought one was the neighborhood centered around the bustling corner of Arthur Kill Road and Richmond Avenue.

Captiva Island, a tiny barrier island off the coast of Fort Myers near Sanibel Island, is the perfect place to go for a relaxing beach vacation. Keep reading for your guide to the under-the-radar destination.

That’s the moral of the North Carolina story. It’s much, much bigger than this state. The details: On Nov. 5, a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court was up for grabs, and the first official vote count showed that Allison Riggs,

The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on desktop, mobile, and our app for subscribers only. To enjoy the e-Newspaper every day, please subscribe. Trump: Change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of America’ | Jan. 8

Or as MSNBC's Jen Psaki put it: “Trump is yanking your chain.”

Memo to Congressional member Marjorie Taylor Greene. Now that you’ve introduced a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, perhaps you’d like to entertain — an appropriate verb if there ever was one — an amendment to change the name of the Sea of Cortez.

Traditional burritos are great, but Green Ghost’s fajita burrito, packed with all those unctuous peppers and onions that come alongside a fajita platter, is often better. Go surf and turf, with a steak-shrimp combo.