01-21-25 YMS The Gulf of Mexico is now “The Gulf of America,” and the country’s tallest mountain is again “Mount McKinley.” National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will run through the high-profile executive orders signed by the new president.

 The Gulf of Mexico is now “The Gulf of America,” and the country’s tallest mountain is again “Mount McKinley.” National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will run through the high-profile executive orders signed by the new president.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on Your Morning Show with Michael dil Choano.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Again we kept saying something more than Donald Trump won,
something more than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris lost. All right,
let's you know, there's a laundry list of things. Joe
Biden hit the ground running with an executive order tackling
the TikTok ban, freezing all government hirings, making full time
employees come back to work, withdrawing from the World Health Organization.

(00:26):
And oh yeah, Panama Canal came up, and so did
the Golf of America.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Roory O'Neal is following that story.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Rory, what would the legal I mean, what would be
a It's one thing to want to call it the
Golf of America, that it's another to legally make it happen.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
How does that? How will that work?

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Yeah, there is an office that actually makes those designations
here in the US. It has to go through a process.
I know. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green has put forward the
bill to help pay for the cost of changing all
the maps right now, But it's also only fitting it
would only apply to America. So, say Brazil is sending
up a supply of.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Coffee they're still going to say Golf of Mexico, going
to call it the Golf of Mexico.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
So it's it's yeah, it's what you know.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
You and I I think it was you and I
that were talking about it, and I thought the most
accurate way to call it would be the Golf of
Americas or something like that. But yeah, this would just
be a distinction within our country, right and by the
way I grew up on it, and anyone else I
grew up on it. We just called it the golf
that we ever finished the statements of In other countries

(01:35):
and in New Orleans they won't even notice.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
What about Mount McKinley, Yeah, that.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
One's interesting because the two Alaska senators, both Republicans, don't
want the name changed. It took a long fight to
get it changed over to Denali rather than Mount McKinley.
And of course the locals prefer Denali as the name,
or I should say, the indigenous people there. So I
don't know why this gets stuck in Donald Trump's crawl,
but yeah, taking swift action to change it back to

(02:02):
honor what he says was a great president, even though
that president McKinley never.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Saw mut mckinlin. Yeah, Greenland never came up. However, Ukraine
didn't come up. Ukraine didn't come up. He did bring
up the Panama Canal. In fact, the Panama officials did
not appreciate what he brought up. Is this kind of
like one of the like tariffs? How many times did
he bring up tariffs? What a beautiful word, tariffs? Maybe

(02:26):
after God, after religion that I love tariffs, maybe even
have to love you know, he went through all that.
But is this part of the art of the deal
kind of a thing setting a message to them? If
you're going to continue to take a canal we gave
you gifted to you and allow China to rule it,
think again?

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Or is that really serious about taking it back?

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Do they rule it? Does China rule it? I mean
they're not being tried. The fees are the same. A
lot of the stuff in the speech doesn't necessarily jibe
with the facts on the ground in Panama.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
And then what do we do about it? Are we
going to invade and take it back? That's my question.
Do you think he's being figurative or literal? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:03):
I mean, well this is all sort of out of
left field. This was not something on the campaign trail.
I don't think there were a lot of Americans who
went to the poll saying give us back our canal.
I don't think that was a divisive issue or even
talked about going into this. So I think it's coming
out of left field, like the Greenland News, which I
guess he has talked about before, but it's sort of

(03:24):
wildly so yeah, I don't know what Congress is equipped
to do about it either.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
You know, he wants to limit our foreign engagements.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
I don't think invading Panama is something that is really
on his radar.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Roory O'Neil, miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot,
and we'll miss you. It's your Morning Show with Michael
del Churno.