Should just change the name to 'Muricas an Onion

Isn’t the entire idea that the Gulf of Mexico is more descriptive than the gulf of America? Mexico only has one large gulf, and from a US perspective the gulf is in the direction of Mexico. The Americas have several «gulfs» so gulf of America makes no sense. Maybe Gulf of the USA? But again in terms of a description that makes far less sense.

Hey, tbh, I'm fine with him focusing on things like this and trying to buy Greenland. It's much rather he spend his time on theater than on actually hurting people

Love how these commenters are all offended by a thing that will never get off the ground, or be heard again.

Y'all were around for the first time, right?

They built a wall too.

The US doesn't have exclusive rights to "America" as a name. In fact strictly speaking "Gulf of America" is not a bad name since it is the largest gulf in the Americas AFAIK.

Canada has more land mass than the US does. Perhaps Trump should be talking about integrating the US into Canada (and doing away with the now-redundant US Presidential position).

But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does.

USA != America. USA is a country that resides on the North American Continent.

While I know Trump is doing this to try and claim it as the USA's... It actually makes sense if you actually use "America" properly to refer to North, Central and South America.

But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does.

He'll solve that too.

Voted in by folks of similar mental capability.

Actual toddlers are less hateful then them. Still stands. Hateful toddlers.

I don't know, but toddlers tend to make more sense...

@hdnsmbt I would expect actual, literal toddlers to be better.

Exactly this. All this outlandish bullshit is meant to soften the blow of something truly awful cooking.

President Musk will get his way and they will make a compromise and call it the Gulf of X-ico.

Well, you see. We let those willfully ignorant fucks in the bible belt vote for some reason.

They'll 25th amendment him throw Vance in and we'll be a fascist oligarchy before March Madness.

Not that we're miles away now.

You are radicalizing your former allies and neighbors, that is what you are doing.

This is just the distraction while he takes everything that isn't nailed down.

Damn, my medical debt that is currently affecting my score must have not gotten the memo.

Edit: Holy fucking shit you’re right, PLEASE GOD LET THIS FUCKING LEGISLATION STICK! DO ONE THING!

Another edit: Can the Trump administration kill this on day one?

Why not replace First past the post voting so more political parties can participate in the electoral process with no spoiler effect?

Don't democrats support democracy? Are democrats afraid of having to compete for our votes?

This is the best case scenario, relying on their utter incompetence, although the will pillage state funds

The unfortunate thing is that "the wall" kinda did happen. Really shittily, but even Biden continued building it and Kamala ran on continuing to build it. The idea itself is really stupid sure, it's ineffective and ass. But there do be a wall getting built to this day.

This is why fascism works. This will happen. Trump is incompetent and idiotic but he's got a government worth of yes men and people scared of losing their jobs or otherwise motivated to just pass his insane "presidential" bullshit through the pipelines created by liberals in more peaceful times.

He doesn't need to know how to do anything, but now that he's in power a handful of his batshit insane things he proposed still get pushed through the system by people who know how to do it who've been drolly passing similar but more sane legislation across their desk for decades.

Ignoring everyone. Then when it's election season again, they'll act like you're a Russian troll who just started talking to spread division.

where the fuck are the democrats?

Pointing fingers at each other and drifting further to the right, probably.

Can only hope this is the case. If they're not being useful, chances are they're not being genuinely destructive either

Oh I'm never gonna stop fighting. They can send my gay ass to the camps and I'll still fight. IDGAF

We've always been permanently screwed, it's just new people getting added to the screwed side of the equation.

Better late late late laaaate then never I guess.

Gulf of Donvict Distraction

Gulf of Butt Sharpies!

The name change will go over worse than the Twitter renaming.

Anyone think he'll want to take over the rest of Mexico and make it part of America?

He's already trying to rename Canada. The US is Canada's pants, and we've apparently shit. them

"Mexico is in Central America, so it must belong to the USA!"

Well that's a depressing watch...

It mostly would.

Hungary renamed an iconic square in Budapest like 10 years ago. Most of the city still calls it Moscow Square.

Everyone can call geographical features however they like in principle.

There's something similar here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan_naming_dispute

If America doesn't have to adopt the metric system they sure as shit don't have to name everything the same.

Countries can decide internally to call something whatever they want. One example is how not everyone in the world agrees on how many continents there are and uses some different names (like Eurasia). A more relevant case is how most of the world calls the ocean between Japan and Korea the Sea of Japan, whereas Koreans call it the East Sea.

So, the way a geographical feature gets named, or renamed, is if the rest of the world recognises it as such.

Sometimes a name change of a feature, or the annexation of a region, gets internationally recognised not because everyone agrees to it, but everyone wants to stay on diplomatic good terms.

There's a similar situation going on with the Persian Gulf/Arabic Gulf.

if so wouldn’t that just end up with the USA following strange semantics other countries don’t?

When it comes to renaming external locations like this that are used by multiple countries, I would imagine it would be a case of how wide the rename is adopted. If I had to take a guess, renaming the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean in more US-centric names isn't as likely to catch on globally and will probably just result in confusion when people from different countries are referring to the same thing.

The US has a law that forces other countries to abide by sanctions over trade. Netherlands and Taiwan are "colonized" by their tech industries that have a little of legacy IP from US companies. US companies can only license internationally with the stipulation that US rules over the licensee. 100% tariffs or military invasion promise for any country that disrespects America's rights to name stuff.

It technically lies between north and south america.

It is a more fitting name than that of the USA.

C’mon, “Gulf of America” is already exhausting enough to say out loud.

If this actually comes to pass, five bucks says we’re all just going to call it the GOA (or you know, keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico).

Don't tell him Mexico is part of the Americas though.

Too late, I've already renamed it Gulf of Canada.

All our maps will be out of date!

The President is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.

https://hitchhikersguidetoearth.fandom.com/wiki/President_of_the_Imperial_Galactic_Government

Because people voted for him

L ketchup

They'll just claim illegal immigrants represent an "invasion." They'll use that as casus belli to invade Mexican territory, and then simply claim occupied lands as spoils of war. They'll also be able to make a practical argument, "well Mexico clearly can't manage the border regions. Look at the anarchy there!"

I don't see MAGA trying to seize all of Mexico. They wouldn't want to take the heavily populated core around Mexico City, that's for sure. But the more lightly populated border states? That would be much more tantalizing. Also, they could justify intervention in the border states as "protecting American investments," referring to all the factories US companies have built right across the border.

Relocating an entire industrial plant is hard and expensive. One of the quickest ways to "bring manufacturing back to America" is to simply move the border to encompass already existing factories.

Canada would be a lot harder to justify, but casus belli can always be found. It just takes one person fleeing to Canada to escape charges for getting or performing an abortion. Suddenly Canada is "harboring fugitives." Or attempt to relitigate the US/Canada border disputes of the 1800s. Or just claim fentanyl is being smuggled in from Canada. Etc. A casus belli can always be found or manufactured.

ah yes, the annexed regions of Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

You lost me at Ukraine. Ukraine was a domestic revolution against a Russian puppet government that acted in defiance and betrayal of the Ukrainian people. The Ukrainians didnt need any help getting pissed off and rioting in the streets when their president stabbed the entire nation in the back.

that when the shit hit the fan and the Yanukovitch government was about to fall, every regional and global power on earth was scrambling to try to get a favorable outcome while the streets of Kyiv were being fought between a mob of protestors and those protecting the Puppet state government.

those "phonecalls" that Russian propagandists love to talk about, weren't quite the Gotcha that they think they were, because dozens of countries were having those same phone calls, it doesnt happen often, but anytime a state government falls, thats actually normal for those calls to go on. Its outside actors trying to put the peices back together in a way that benefits them and their interests. (if you think Western countries having those calls on Ukraine's future was bad, boy do I have a horse to sell you on what was happening in Russia, Short version, it resulted in a full scale war.)

People talk about what caused the Euromaidan and who was responsible for it all the time, but critical and central issue they never seem to bring up when they argue about "Big bad Russia, evil CIA coup, etc" is the Ukrainian people. The population of the country where it happened is treated as if it wasn't a factor with agency at all, that they only revolted because some guys at the US embassy gave them some signs and told em to. that line of reasoning frankly needs to be told to fuck off.

Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine

Is that all? Isn't there another country you're missing?

Yeah because a stupid old man wanting to change the name is totally the same as building islands and putting military bases on then

You mean the Far West Extra-American Sea

I can't wait for the 80 trillion dollar investment