A Gulf of Knowledge

What’s the big deal about the Gulf of America? After all, it is not ‘the Gulf of the United States of America’, our official name. The Gulf (and Mexico) is part of the American continental system, a fact I have been aware of since Donald Duck Sees South America (published 1945 but which I read circa 1972).

“Donald leaned forward and tapped the driver. ‘You know, I’m an American and proud of it.’

‘Me too. Much proud to be American.’

Donald was puzzled. ‘If you’re an American, why do you speak the American language with a foreign accent?’

The driver was getting excited. ‘I do not speak my American language with a foreign accent. I only speak your American language with a foreign accent. You, North American. Me, Latin American.’”

The point may be pedantic and not political, but it is technically correct, ‘the best kind of correct.’ Both Donalds (Duck and Trump) may have made the same assumptions about a name (as are the objectors) but 'Gulf of America' is a nice, if unnecessary, compromise.