President Donald Trump's recent executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America has thus far elicited a lot of snickering and not much else.

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.

For years, as disputes over names on the map riled up nationalist passions in several parts of the world, US policymakers have watched warily, trying to stay out or to quietly encourage peace. "For us it is still the Gulf of Mexico and for the entire world it is still the Gulf of Mexico,