Donald Trump Says Gulf of Mexico Will Now Be Called 'Gulf of America.' Congress Is Already Prepping Legislation
Donald Trump Says Gulf of Mexico Will Now Be Called 'Gulf of America.' Congress Is Already Prepping Legislation
This channel is going to be so busy the next 4 years. Oof.
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.
I'm not sure Trump even knows there's an area called "the Americas."
Also leftists who refused to vote at all because Harris didn't solve the Middle East conflicts from the Vice President's desk.
Wait wait wait... So you're saying the vice president isn't the same as the queen and can't just do whatever she wants?
I voted for Harris, because I believe in trying to be practical and try to reduce harm, but I also won't even think of speaking ill of those who refused to endorse genocide just because the other guy might do genocide without the pathetic finger-wagging the Biden administration did as they handed over more and more and more bombs. It was a hard choice, and I chose pragmatics and harm reduction, but I also know that some fucking dweeb in the DNC is going to read that number as an endorsement signal for the platform of "genocide is okay as long as we tut at them while we hand them bombs".
Lessons Learned: Zero
The economy was predicted to do worse under Trump, as was/is inflation and housing prices.
What absolute fucking dumbasses voted for this guy for economic reasons?
What absolute fucking dumbasses...
You kind of answered your own question there.
Moderates who “voted for the economy”: 🤡
Fucking THEATER
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
This is a distraction
This is what Trump does day to day, spouting random made up shit on a whim. My guess is that it was ad libbed and there is no legislation, the whole renaming thing is probably news to his speech writer/diaper changer/whatever they call the person that tries to get him to talk about something specific.
The horrible shit is orchestrated by all the malicious fucks around him who can focus on one topic for more than 5 minutes.
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?
Damn. Boomer politicians scraping the bottom of the barrel so hard now we're stealing from China's playbook? "It's not Cuba, it's American Taipei."
They built a wall too.
But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does. We should just leave it alone.
Wouldn't surprise me if this was inspired to circumvent the new ban on oil drilling Biden just enacted. "We're drilling in the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of Mexico."
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.
Then maybe “Gulf of the Americas” would be more appropriate.
True, they'll probably call it Gulf of 'MURICA!
Except America has more then one gulf so it isn't the gulf of America it is one gulf in America.
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.
We'll croatia them and canada.
Actual, literal toddlers are really taking over the US, aren't they?
Voted in by folks of similar mental capability.
That's not fair. Some of them are scamming the large toddlers!
Plus folks of similar mental capability refrained from voting in the first place, when they could have prevented this.
Actual toddlers are less hateful then them. Still stands. Hateful toddlers.
Let's not forget, conservatives, CEOs and all that bunch operate with methods of a parlor magician. The louder they jingle the keys in one hand, the more we should be paying attention to what they are doing with the other.
Exactly this. All this outlandish bullshit is meant to soften the blow of something truly awful cooking.
It's about to pop out of the oven!
President Musk will be livid that his suggestion to call it 'Gulf of X' was shot down.
President Musk will get his way and they will make a compromise and call it the Gulf of X-ico.
*Gulf of X-ica
Invade Mexico, invade greenland, rename the gulf..... hello... he's bonkers, what the fuck are we doing letting this shit back in power....
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.
Yeah, that's what I've been thinking since his speech. I'm thinking the people he's surrounded with are encouraging his non-sensical ramblings so they can replace him with Vance, who is a Thiel/billionaire puppet, and likely more predictable and reliable than Trump.
Can we pleast waste the next 4 years renaming things and get nothing practical done? That sounds like perfectly good mud to spin the tires in.
This is just the distraction while he takes everything that isn't nailed down.
I guess this time he brought a box full of screwdrivers.
Hey look, another 4 years of Republicans not doing anything of value for the American people.
Meanwhile, Democrats just banned medical debt from showing up on credit reports.
The differences between parties couldn't be more obvious and Americans were still stupid enough to elect the do-nothing party. That's how I know this country is barreling down a path to collapse. It's not Trump. It's not even Republicans. It's braindead stupid Americans.
Yeah. I mean I try not to be the guy standing on the corner with the "THE END IS NEAR" sign, but the writing is on the wall here. History has shown us that if a populace doesn't work hard to maintain a democracy, it loses it to the forces working against it. And our society simply can't responsibly handle the threat of internet propaganda and radicalism. There will never be a more stark election than what we just experienced and we still failed the test. If we're failing the easiest, most obvious tests we could possibly be given, we don't stand a chance.
It's not going to be some cataclysmic collapse and downfall. It's going to be slow and steady and extremely despressing.
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?
Yeah. It's a big deal.
"BUT DEMOCRATS DON'T DO ANYTHING!!!"
Honestly, I'm not sure how possible it is for Trump to undo this. I haven't looked deep enough into it. I read something about Biden doing what he could to make it hard for it to be undone. There's so many nuances to our legislative system and the powers that the president has that it's hard to tell how safe this from Republican fuckery.
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?
Do you mean democrats or Democrats? Because the latter is absolutely not looking to compete any further.
This is the best case scenario, relying on their utter incompetence, although the will pillage state funds
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.
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.
The reason Trump is doing this is so that we are not focusing on the rift in the party over H1B visas.
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.
Ah a classic then.
where the fuck are the democrats?
Pointing fingers at each other and drifting further to the right, probably.
What an utter fucking buffoon. This man shouldn't be trusted to use a fork without protective eyewear let alone run a god damn country.
It's hard to tell which eye he hit with that framerate. Have this:
Guarantee the house and senate are going to be full of this kind of shit to the exclusion of anything even remotely useful
Can only hope this is the case. If they're not being useful, chances are they're not being genuinely destructive either
And it's an omnibus law that also bans abortion, with meaningless exceptions for rape, but only if the perpetrator is sentenced before the first trimester; or life threatening conditions, but only if the mother is actively dying. And if you vote no on that, you'll be smeared forever as the traitor of America.
To everyone here.
I know most of you are fed up, exhausted and disgusted. The key is to never give up and roll over. Once you do this the idiots will have won and we we'll be permanently screwed. We had already gone through four years of Trump's Idiocracy. Four more years sucks but you need to keep fighting the good fight. We can get through this!
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.
Why not Gulf Of Trump? Gulf of MAGA? Gulf of Sharpie?
Idiot.
EDIT: And yes, he's just trying to distract from his court cases... again.
Gulf of Donvict Distraction
Gulf of Butt Sharpies!
Yeah, good luck convincing the rest of the world to change to fit your wants.
The name change will go over worse than the Twitter renaming.
Or when they tried to change the name of French fries.
Wait until he hears about Mexico not being named America either!
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!"
Rational National pointed out that the 'Gulf of America' name was actually a joke Colbert made back in 2010 when he was still doing the Colbert Report.
Roughly 2 minutes into this video:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BtzFxY66F7s
Old article about MSFT donating to Colbert's 'Gulf of America' charity aimed at cleaning up / mitigating oil spills from rigs that broke after Katrina:
We live in the Demented Clowns timeline, honk honk.
Well that's a depressing watch...
Besides the absurdity of this, who gets to decide the name of a geographical feature?
If this were to actually happen wouldn’t it mean literally nothing? Like maybe officially in the USA it would be referred to by its new name but why would other countries follow? And I get that that the USA does a lot in the Gulf, but from my [very basic] understanding most of it is international waters.
Could legislation be proposed to rename the Atlantic Ocean? And if so wouldn’t that just end up with the USA following strange semantics other countries don’t?
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.
It mostly would.
Hungary renamed an iconic square in Budapest like 10 years ago. Most of the city still calls it Moscow Square.
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.
Politics aside, “Gulf of Mexico” sounds way cooler. Easier and more fun to say, too.
Don't tell him Mexico is part of the Americas though.
Which America? South America? North America? How can it be the gulf of the entire continent?
It technically lies between north and south america.
It is a more fitting name than that of the USA.
It is nowhere near South America. The Gulf of Mexico is in North America, touching Mexico, the United States, and Cuba.
The name makes sense because, technically speaking, it is an ocean basin. Most of the basin goes towards Mexican territory; not meaning the touching of the borders but that it covers what would be Mexican territory. It "pushes" or "delves" more towards Mexico. (I hope I'm explaining myself, lol).
It has been called "the Gulf of Mexico" for about five centuries and it made even more sense less than two centuries ago before the United States stole a big chunk of northern Mexican territory.
tbh despite the idiotic intentions the name does make more sense than "the gulf of mexico"
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).
Fine. I’m calling it Gulf of the Americas and reminding everyone that the Americas are the continents, not the country.
A visionary and inclusive move!
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the increasingly loud hum of cognitive dissonance in the face of a nonsensical reality grows slightly higher pitched
Too late, I've already renamed it Gulf of Canada.
Ain't that the Hudson bay though?
Holy Lilith it's gonna be so awkward when the Europeans have to make invasion plans together with the Chinese because Trump is Blitzkrieg-ing through America.
All our maps will be out of date!
That's why theyll have to partner with China, where else are they gonna buy American maps??
President Freedom Fries can call it whatever the fuck he wants. That doesn't make it internationally recognized.
why is the media giving this idiot the time of day. no it's not called the "gulf of america" and no congress can't do squat about it. it's a stupid distraction from an idiot.
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
This is the first step to annex another region.
Cycle continue ….
We saw this in Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and many other countries that the USA has admitted funding different group inside them to destabilize them. But now it seems trump plan or asked to do the same with both Mexico and canada.
They can justify it with Mexico because of drugs and immigrants, but it is harder for Canada. They US news tried to blame canada for “terrorist” and “illegal immigrants” but it seems they are following the same stories with Mexico.
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.
As far as Lebanon, Syria, etc., the theft of these lands is an explicit goal of "greater israel".
If it's not possible to annex, it's ok to just invade, murder people, steal resources, and create refugee crisis. Check out the current state of Iraq, Yemen, and Libya...
And Ukraine, don't forget Ukraine. Just replace the US with Russia in the whole post and you get closer to the truth.
If you cannot see how "ISRAEL" runs the "USA" government through "AIPAC" and how both represent the same "Entity" I would recommend you read more about what they "Publicly" publish and what the "world" see happening.
These are "current" example that where we saw "Israeli" government official say "Not a Country". It also the same when we look at "China" and "Taiwan" and any other "super power" vs "neighbouring nation"
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?
Just like the fucking Nazis and Communists changing names of cities, roads, etc.. to suit their fucked up agenda. Chemnitz was once Karl-Marx-Stadt and the fucked up Nazis changed many Slavic city and town names along the Polish border before the outbreak of WW II.
But then they removed about China and their wrongdoings in the South China Sea
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're right, but I worry this is an expansion of rhetoric similar to Taiwan. "It's always been our gulf. They're using land on our gulf."
It's done in the same spirit and will go down the same way. You people are just too blind to see the evil these people will put into this world in the next few years.
Besides that, the US definitely doesn't lack in overseas military bases.
You mean the Far West Extra-American Sea
Working on the important stuff first I see! While we're at it, why did we slip back into calling them French fries. We need to throw some serious money at this problem - I'm talkin' make the libs complain we could have ended homelessness money at changing the damn name of fried fucking potatoes!! Yeah, hand me my mountain dew hat! We're dewin this! Murica! Hellz yah!
I can't wait for the 80 trillion dollar investment
That is strangely going to the relatives of the oversight committee, what what can you do, eh?
Ahh the important things that will improve all American lives
Good. Let him waste his time on petty shit like this.
This will go over about as well as the Sacagawea dollar coin, and the coin had the advantage of actually being a good idea.
2016-2020 : President of Alternate Facts 2025-2029: President of Alternate Reality
This is not good obviously, but it's also very US-centric to think that name Gulf of America indicates it belongs to the US. In an alternate timeline it would totally make sense to have a gulf between two Americas called the Gulf of America or even the American Sea. But the US has effectively hijacked the name America
Delusional LMAO.
America isn't even the countries name, it's "The United States OF America" with North America being the continent it's on.
Unitedstatesian Gulf
I feel like it's not great to say "Congress is already prepping" instead of "Marjorie Taylor Greene is prepping legistlation"
She has been legitimized at this point, unfortunately. She has committee assignments and the backing of the Speaker so there's now a high likelihood she has the leverage to get bills passed. Also the incoming GOP trifecta means she will be far far more close to the political center of Congress than ever before.
I'm so fucking tired of this shit.
Better buckle up. It’s going to be a wild ride…that’s on fire…at a haunted amusement park…in a war zone.
The Onion is running out of material
More meaningless culture war bullshit.
How about New Mexico state?
Trump tomorrow: "we're renaming the state of New Mexico to the state of New Murica!"
Mexico is formally named Estados Unidos Mexicanos, meaning Unites States of Mexico. How about renaming that to Unites States of America
The United States of Mexican America
Rename the city of Calexico to Calimerica
I guess "Bumpkin Bay" is a little too on the nose.
Or maybe "Gulf Of Florida Man."
Fine, then we gotta spend the money to care for the natural life there as if it were ours.
Oh you don't want to spend the money? Figures, you cheapskate "conservatives".
And French Fries are now Freedom Fries /s
20 some years ago when that happened, I remember saying "What? That's stupid....". I was a teenager at the time. I was yelled at by adults saying "NO! IT'S NOT STUPID!!! WE'RE AMERICANS!!! FREEDOM FRIES ARE AN AMERICAN FOOD!!! WE GROW POTATOES IN IDAHO!!! NOT PARIS!!!!"
Today, I'm 41. Teenager me wasn't immature. Well, ok, I was, on a lot of things. But NOT on this. 41 year old me looks back and says teenager me was right.
This IS stupid.
French fries then, french fries now.
I use the term "freedom units" whether someone tells me that they're 6 shoes and 2 toenails tall instead of using metric.
Well the US can call it the Gulf of bullshit all they want, for the rest of the world it IS the gulf of Mexico. Renaming it doesn't give them anything extra, or any rights.
Its actually just really really petty and little, just some nonsense so that his base can say " look ge is really working hard for us!"
"Freedom Fries"
He won, he doesn't have to make pointless stands anymore but I guess old habits die hard.
I hope he doesn't hear about the Gulf of California. He is not going to understand that the Californias were Mexican and, thus, the Gulf is still named after the fact. He's going to claim some wacky s*it like "the name indicates it belongs to one of our states", "Mexicans are trying to steal California's assets", or something like that.
Freedom fries all over again
Definitely very important things to be spending time on. And not something his cultists would be yelling about if it was Biden.
The media now see's it's job as shutting up and taking the bait, i see
In other news, the moon will be called Lunar America and the Pacific Ocean is now known as the Sea of Freedom.
Wait till he 'rebrands' to
Ameristan
or maybe
Trumpmania
Ah, focusing on the importance issues concerning Americans, truly making us great again!
The 2025 season of the "USA" reality show will be awesome! 😎🍿
hope they don’t go with the cliché world war plot this time, tho