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Why ask Google's CEO?
Trump likely approached Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, because Google is synonymous with information and mapping through products like Google Maps and Google Earth. He might have seen Google as a powerful global entity capable of influencing or implementing such a change. However, Google's role is to reflect existing geographical names, not to create them.
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