WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump came out swinging in a combative inaugural speech in which he affirmed plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico and regain control of the Panama Canal.

More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

On President Donald Trump's Inauguration Day, Governor Ron DeSantis made Florida the first state to reference the "Gulf of America" in an executive order when he issued a state of emergency due to cold weather.

Why stop at Gulf of America? Our maps are full of foreign names and languages — including a Palm Beach resort with a Spanish name.

OCEARCH has tracked Crystal up the eastern seaboard to New Brunswick, back down around the Florida Keys and into the Gulf of Mexico.

Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds, ports, fish and shellfish, its deep pockets of oil and gas far beneath a basin floor of crashed, tectonic plates.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the ‘Gulf of America.' The executive order requires all federal maps, databases, and documents to change the name of the Gulf within 30 days.

It puts in motion plans Trump laid out in executive orders signed shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration.

Trump’s executive order has led to the immediate suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Another order aims to reinstate Remain in Mexico and terminate Temporary Protected Status.

A major winter storm that slammed Texas and the northern Gulf Coast is spreading heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts of the Florida panhandle and eastern Carolinas.

Some donned red, white, and blue and celebrated the 47th president. Others filled the streets in protest of another Trump presidency.