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Trump wanted a ‘Trump Ocean’ on Google Maps. He says CEO Sundar Pichai shut it down

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President Donald Trump has another body of water in mind for a name change: the Atlantic Ocean. But this time, he says, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told him no.

“We seriously looked at the Atlantic Ocean, and I called Google Maps, who were really great with the lake,” Trump said at a rally in Pendleton, S.C., on Wednesday.

“No, no, no. This time, I’m not doing it,” Trump recalled Pichai saying. According to Trump, Pichai explained that oceans span multiple countries and urged him, “Please don’t ask us to do that.”

“Should I pass on… I think let’s keep it the Atlantic Ocean, right?” Trump asked the crowd.

But Trump wasn’t finished with the oceans. He then floated renaming the Pacific the “American Ocean” and asked how Europe would feel about it, though no part of Europe borders the Pacific.

It wasn’t the first time Trump had raised the idea. At a rally in Dalton, Ga., last Friday, Trump said he had asked Google about renaming either the Atlantic or the Pacific the “Trump Ocean.”

“You know what they said? ‘We’ve had it. That’s enough. We’re not doing it anymore,’” Trump told the crowd.

He said he was only kidding. He then added that he had sent Google “a little picture” labeled “The Trump Ocean,” and that the company called back to say oceans were different. “I said I was only kidding. That time I was,” Trump said.

Trump first teased an ocean rename in August, when he signed the order renaming Lake Ontario in the Oval Office.

Fortune asked Google to confirm Trump’s account of the conversation and whether it had received a formal request to rename the Atlantic Ocean. Fortune also asked how Google would handle a proposed name change for an ocean shared by multiple countries. Google did not respond to Fortune’s request for comment.

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