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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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Mexican here. This is happening as much as "the wall" happened. Don't let him distract you from the H1B issue.
- 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.
  
  It's not about doing the things it's about the optics of saying you'll do them. The wall isn't done and never will be. Even if it was it would never deliver what was promised.
  Its all about optics and it's why Trump sabotaged the immigration reform bill. It would show democrats are capable of actually executing/delivering in a way he can't.
  
  And on that front, trump was super successful. He was so successful that the Democrats full ass abandoned hispanic folk and immigrants in general and fully adopted Fascist Trump Immigration policy. In terms of optics, Trump won so hard the Dems tried to be like WE ARE JUST LIKE TRUMP BUT EFFECTIVE.
  The dems would rather chase racist white """""moderates""""" than any person of color. Even their POC's cant help but beg for that racist white moderate because they crossed that wealth line that made them forget what they are to those folk. Trump won the optic war because Dems surrendered as soon as they physically could.
  
  Did Mexico pay for it, though? That was the important part.
  
  Was it the important part? Really? Sounds like your so stuck on the silly part you missed the clusterfuck
- 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.

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