Many people made memes when President Donald Trump announced he was changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf Of America’ but now, the Mexican president is fighting back.

Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, announced on Friday (May 9) that her administration is suing Google after they changed the Gulf of Mexico’s name to the ‘Gulf of America’ on Google Maps.

Google also allegedly ignored Mexico’s ‘repeated requests’ not to rename, the BBC reports.

Shortly into his second term of presidency, which began in January, Trump created an executive order for the US Government to rename the Gulf.

President Sheinbaum told gathered press that she would be going ahead with the court case, but didn’t give away any details.

“The lawsuit has already been filed,” Sheinbaum said, but did not elaborate when or where it had been entered. “All we want is for the decree issued by the US government to be complied with.

Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the name of the Gulf Of Mexico (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“The US government only calls the portion of the US continental shelf the Gulf of America, not the entire gulf, because it wouldn’t have the authority to name the entire gulf.”

The filing comes after Mexico’s foreign relations ministry issued a plea to Google not to go ahead with the rebrand.

Cris Turner, Google’s VP of government affairs and public policy, had previously written to Sheinbaum.

In the documents, shared by the Mexican president, the Google rep said Google will not be reversing the changes they have made.

For Google Maps users in the US, they see it marked as ‘the Gulf of America’, whereas viewers in Mexico still see it as ‘the Gulf of Mexico’. Everyone else in the world sees it as ‘The Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)’.