4mo ago

Donald Trump Says Gulf of Mexico Will Now Be Called 'Gulf of America.' Congress Is Already Prepping Legislation

people.com Donald Trump Says Gulf of Mexico Will Now Be Called 'Gulf of America.' Congress Is Already Prepping Legislation

During a press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 7, the 78-year-old president-elect shared his plan for renaming the Gulf of Mexico. “We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” Trump told reporters.

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Stop paying attention to the stupid shit they're saying to distract from the evil shit they're gonna be doing.
- I'm not going to be paying attention to any of it. Fascism 101. But the fascist scum have apparently "won" so here we are.
  America is a write-off. Let the filth destroy it.
  
  I’m not going to be paying attention to any of it
  Cool, then don't.
  Why hang around and tell people to stop caring?
  If you want to stop caring, just do it. But that's clearly not what's happening.

doesn't even break the top-10 of stupidest shit to come out of his mouth this week.

Like Twitter I'll misname it out of disrespect.

Why is he thinking so small? Why not rename the Pacific Ocean to American Ocean? China and Japan have seas and India has an Ocean.
- The American Ocean is a lot of things, but pacific isn't one of them
- The Atlantic Ocean belongs to Atlanta. To make it sound more like how it's pronounced by the locals, we'll rename it the A-lan-nic Ocean.

Half of me wants to start keeping a personal tally of all the bullshit that comes out of this embarrassment while the other half just wants to cancel my internet to avoid the emotional trauma.
- I'm also at this crossroads. I think a sub for link-dumping would be great because he doesn't deserve the time of day to curate him a list that nobody will read.
- Option 2 is more satisfying
  
  Burying your head in the sand is satisfying? You do you I guess...

I'm only surprised he didn't demand it be called the Gulf of Trump.
- The gulf of trump is the empty space between his ears.
- You're not wrong... especially since he feels the need to plaster his name on everything. But don't give him ideas....
  On that note, can we collectively change "trump card" to being a bad thing?
- Trump Toilet Bowl
- "Trump's gulf hurricane wipes out south"
- When he announced it, there was a short pause with an expectant look
  I can't shake the thought that he was hoping for someone to yell out "let's name it the gulf of Trump!"

Sure. Its all a fucking joke, now.

One wonders how upset he'll be when he learns that Mexico is in America. North America, even.

Seems like it's time for a name change of the USA in Spanish.
- Estados Estupidos —> Stupid States
  
  Estados Jodidos more like.
- Man, I know English. I know some Spanish, high school drop out level, and I have some "real world" experience from working in a hotel... but man, I don't think I can change languages on the fly.
  Mi Espanol es muy mal. Muy, muy, mal.
  
  Malo* 😬
- Deadnaming geography, so hot right now.
- ¡Los Estados Unidos!
  
  La tierra del hombre naranja

Everybody else in the world still gonna call it Gulf of Mexico

No, we won't. That's stupid.
- We won't. That's true enough. For tradition alone we won't; Just like we don't change to the metric system.
  But it's not exactly stupid. There are several countries and two continents that surround The Gulf. It's not unreasonable to name it after both the continents that make it. I'm not even sure how it became named after just a single country anyway.
  Really it's just another stupid fucking distraction that shouldn't get any attention from any of us.
  
  Let me tell you about the Persian gulf and the South China Sea.
  When the gulf was named by European explorers in the 1580s, Mexico (as a region colonized by Spain) was the most important thing in the main land. Some Spanish maps from the same time period also called it Gulf of New Spain.
  
  But it's not exactly stupid. There are several countries and two continents that surround The Gulf. It's not unreasonable to name it after both the continents that make it.
  Not quite, the gulf is entirely contained within North America and borders the US, Mexico, and Cuba.
  Once you go around the Yucatan Peninsula, you're no longer in the gulf, you're in the Yucatan Channel and then the Yucatan Basin portion of the Caribbean Sea.
  But you're right in that it's not exactly stupid, just eyeballing it, it looks like the US has more square miles on the gulf than Mexico does.