Musk proposes renaming English Channel

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has suggested that the US change the name of the English Channel to “the George Washington Channel” in honor of the first American president, after US President Donald Trump renamed of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

In a post on his X platform on Saturday, Musk proposed a “new name for the water that separates England and France,” sharing a satellite photo of the channel with “The George Washington Channel” imposed over the strait.

Musk’s post was likely tongue-in-cheek, but it came less than a week after Trump – a close political ally of Musk – ordered the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America, and the Alaskan peak Denali to be returned to its pre-2015 name of Mount McKinley. The US Interior Department confirmed the changes on Friday.

Trump has also repeatedly declared his intent to acquire the…