The Cuban chancellor Bruno Rodríguez sarcastically commented this Tuesday on the changes in geographical names and the maps shared by U.S. President Donald Trump, after the president published an image in which Cuba and other territories were covered by the flag of the United States.
«On the path it's taking, the U.S. government is going to leave its citizens geographically disoriented», Rodríguez wrote this Tuesday on X.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs concluded his message with a direct mockery of the succession of reappointments and maps promoted or shared by Trump.
“Soon they won’t know which gulf, lake, building, country, continent, or planet they are in,” he stated.
The comment comes a day after Trump shared on Truth Social a controversial map of North America and the Caribbean with the American flag superimposed over Cuba, Canada, Mexico, Greenland, and other territories in Central America and the Caribbean.
The image, which bore the caption "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", was not accompanied by an explanation nor did it constitute a formal foreign policy proposal.
It also featured the designation "GULF OF AMERICA" for the Gulf of Mexico.
The renaming of the Gulf of Mexico was one of the first measures of this kind advocated by Trump after returning to the White House.
In January 2025, he ordered that U.S. federal agencies use "Gulf of America," and later proclaimed February 9 as "Gulf of America Day".
The list continued in August of this year, when Trump signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as "America's Lake", shared by the United States and Canada.
The change began to be reflected for American users in digital services, while Canada retained the traditional naming.
Trump has also publicly toyed with the idea of renaming the Strait of Hormuz.
In April, he shared a post that referred to it as "Trump Strait", after previously using that phrase jokingly. Any potential U.S. change would not carry international validity.
Most recently, Trump posted a map suggesting to replace the name New Mexico with "New America", showing the word "Mexico" crossed out and "America" written in its place.
The publication did not constitute an official change, and renaming a state would require a legislative process that the president cannot unilaterally initiate.
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