WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

“We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Gulf of America — what a beautiful name,” he said at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. “And it’s appropriate.”

He did not specify when or how he intends to make the change, saying he would provide those details at at a future date.

“We’re going to change, because we do most of the work there, and it’s ours,” he said.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said immediately afterward in a social media post that she would introduce a bill to officially change the name of the body of water, which runs from Mexico along the southern part of the United States.

A former Mississippi legislator proposed legislation in 2012 to change the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America for “official purposes within the state of Mississippi.” He said the bill was a meant in jest.

It was not immediately clear why Trump decided to propose to change the name now. He told reporters the Gulf of America “has a beautiful ring” to it and was an “appropriate” name for the basin that also touches Cuba.

He indicated that he wanted to make the change because of a trade imbalance with Mexico, illegal immigration into the U.S. at the southern border and concerns about drugs coming into the United States.