President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring the federal government to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on official maps.
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names has since formally changed the name.
T-Pain recently shared a map of Wisconsin on X that’s labeled “Wiscansin.”

Ever since President Donald Trump decided to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on official maps, folks have had jokes.

T-Pain has joined in, recently sharing a map of Wisconsin to X. But, instead, it’s labeled “Wiscansin.”

That’s how T-Pain, aka Faheem Rashad Najm, pronounces the state’s name on one of his biggest hits, “Can’t Believe It.” The Grammy Award-winning rapper/singer needed to come up with a place that rhymed with “mansion” and voila.

“I could have done a lot of different things,” T-Pain previously told the Journal Sentinel. “But man, ‘Wiscansin’ just felt right. It felt better. It felt like I was taking a risk. Not a lot of people give Wisconsin a lot of love, so I felt like I was breathing air into something.”

Since then, the pronunciation has become one of his trademarks. There’s T-Pain’s annual Wiscansin Fest, as well as merch promoted via a hilarious website for a fictitious “Wiscansin University.” Plus, he plans to bring Wiscansin University, which would be a music academy, to life in the Milwaukee area, the rapper told the Journal Sentinel in 2023.

“This joke has gone off the (expletive) rails,” T-Pain said, laughing, at that time. “We can’t stop it.”

Along with the map of “Wiscansin” — which also renames Lake Michigan to “Lake Wiscansin” — T-Pain posted on X: “Omg I can’t believe it, they actually changed the name on the maps” — an homage to the 2008 song’s title.

The tweet has racked up 104,000 likes and 14,000 reposts.

So, who’s on board with the change? Apparently, the Milwaukee Brewers’ Class A affiliate.

“Wiscansin Timber Rattlers actually has a nice ring to it,” the team replied to the post.

An unofficial X account for the Upper Peninsula (with 27,700 followers) has since hopped on the “Wiscansin” bandwagon, too.

After Lake Superior’s X account posted, “Gulf of America? Fine, I’m now the Lake of Mexico,” @UpperPeninsula reposted the tweet and wrote: “And I’m the Upper Peninsula of Wiscansin.”

Heck, the UP account has even changed its name on X to reflect that.

From Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America

Last month, Trump signed an executive order requiring the federal government to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on official maps.

That’s the body of water bordered to the north by the United States’ southern coast, from Texas to Florida. It also wraps around Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

Employees at the U.S. Board on Geographic Names have since formally changed the name.

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To comply, Google and Apple have updated their Maps applications to reflect the name change. And, the National Weather Service has been updating its maps.

Last week, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo urged Google to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America for U.S. users of Google Maps, threatening to file a civil lawsuit against the technology corporation if it doesn’t comply.

The name change doesn’t affect what other countries call the body of water.