Trump says Google's CEO rejected his plan to change the Atlantic's name to the 'Trump Ocean'

President Donald Trump's scheme to rename the Atlantic Ocean hit choppy waters whenever he took it to Google.

At a Wednesday rally in South Carolina, Trump stated he considered putting his name or "America" on among the two oceans that flank the US: the Atlantic and the Pacific.

"I’m not going to put either Trump or America on any another sea but these two," he told the crowd.

Then, he said, he called Google to ask concerning making the alter on Google Maps.

The tech elephantine had earlier changed its US labels for the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario to the Gulf of America and Lake America following administrator orders from the president.

"I said to a brilliant guy, Sundar. He heads all of Google," Trump said, referring to CEO Sundar Pichai. He additionally praised Google cofounder Sergey Brin, calling the two men "totally brilliant guys," before joking that they were "still rattled from the Gulf."

Trump recounted putting his idea immediately to Pichai: "Sundar, I’m thinking of the Atlantic Ocean. Can you grip it?"

"No, no, no. This period I’m not doing it," Trump quoted Pichai as replying. "Oceans are different, sir. They shield really a lot of countries. Please don't ask us to do that."

"So I'll likely pass," Trump told the crowd. "Should I continue it?" He afterward answered his own question: "I think let's keep it the Atlantic Ocean."

Google did not immediately react to a petition for comment.

It was not Trump's first sea pitch. At a Tennessee rally in first October, he floated "Trump Ocean" or "Ocean of the Americas" for the Atlantic or Pacific.

He has additionally mused concerning renaming a river, calling New Mexico "New America," and rechristening the Strait of Hormuz the "Trump Strait."

While those ideas remain proposals, Google Maps did clasp "Gulf of America" and "Lake America" for US users following the names changed in national records. Users in Mexico and Canada motionless see the first names for the gulf and lake, respectively. Users in the remainder of the earth see the first names, followed by Trump's new names in brackets.

The changes have created a dilemma for group who create maps for an global audience. "The matter of global acceptance is additionally a factor, as several nations may not obtain it," Joseph Wright, CEO of Replogle Globes, told Business Insider's Joshua Nelken-Zitser following the lake order.

"We market globes worldwide."

For now, Trump's Atlantic idea appears to have sunk before it reached Google Maps.