CNN anchor Jake Tapper used President Donald Trump’s “Gulf of America” term to refer to the body of water where the U.S. astronauts splashed down when returning to Earth on Tuesday.
Tapper reportedly began his 5 p.m. show “The Lead” on Tuesday by providing minute-by-minute coverage of the return of the SpaceX Dragon, which brought stranded NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore home after spending 286 days in space.
“The 17-hour trip home began around 1 a.m. [ET] this morning. Within the hour, they’re expected to splash down near Tallahassee in an area that the US government now calls the Gulf of America, known everywhere else as the Gulf of Mexico,” Tapper told his viewers, according to a CNN transcript.
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