Donald Trump’s billionaire ally has proposed that the English Channel should be given a new name that is linked to America.

After Trump ‘renamed’ the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America to “restore names that honour American greatness” it seems that Elon Musk has come up with a name for The English Channel, also known as the Strait of Dover in some regions.

The tech mogul suggested that the English Channel – the body of water separating England and France – be renamed the “George Washington Channel”.

In a controversial tweet on X the tech billionaire shared a picture of the Channel with the proposed name adding: “New name for the water that separates England and France”.

The Tesla and X owner did not explain further why the Channel should supposedly be renamed. The proposal, which has amassed over 360k likes, has sparked significant attention and raised questions about Musk’s intentions.

In response one user questioned: “What’s with this obsession now to change the names of geographical landmarks?”

Another user said: “It’s ridiculous.

“Why would we spend millions of dollars to change signage and documents? The US doesn’t have the authority to rename international bodies of water.

“We can call them what we want in our official documents, but that’s not an official name change.”

A third added: “How about ‘The Viking Canal?'”.

The X owner has been deeply critical of the UK government in a series of recent posts on X and unleashed a torrent of criticism for the PM even calling for Starmer to be replaced.

Earlier this month the multi-billionaire accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of being “deeply complicit in the mass rapes in exchange for votes”.

But it seems Trump and Musk may be at odds with their views of over the Starmer as just yesterday Trump threw the UK Prime Minister an olive branch and praised him for a “very good job thus far”.

Speaking to the BBC on Air Force One, Trump told said: “I get along with him well. I like him a lot.

“He’s liberal, which is a bit different from me, but I think he’s a very good person and I think he’s done a very good job thus far.”