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HereForTheParty

(575 posts)
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 03:58 PM Jan 7

Trump says he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico

Source: AP

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a name he said has a “beautiful ring to it.”

It’s his latest suggestion to redraw the map of the Western Hemisphere. Trump has repeatedly referred to Canada as the “51st State,” demanded that Denmark consider ceding Greenland, and called for Panama to return the Panama Canal.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-gulf-of-mexico-bc438f4feca1234475a1adef99344da7

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Trump says he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico (Original Post) HereForTheParty Jan 7 OP
Freaking brilliant . Duncanpup Jan 7 #1
He wont do anything. He is so unhealthy, i bet he will float away ......... Trueblue1968 Jan 8 #57
Please don't feed the trolls JoseBalow Jan 7 #2
Not The Onion ?!? fierywoman Jan 7 #3
Alas, no. Even The Onion will not be able to get ahead of his insanity. niyad Jan 7 #33
He really and truly IS insane. fierywoman Jan 7 #43
Sadly true. niyad Jan 7 #45
Sure and Mexico just sat there said nothing and paid for the wall. usaf-vet Jan 7 #4
Damn, he's a true fucking asshole. cstanleytech Jan 7 #5
That's the name we can call it MacKasey Jan 7 #8
It's his job. Gotta keep our eyes (reporters' eyes) on his insane antics lest we glimps what the oligarchs are up to. Attilatheblond Jan 7 #28
Guy looks like SHIT in that photo......... Bengus81 Jan 7 #6
Correct on both counts. TheCowsCameHome Jan 7 #11
when has he NOT looked like shit Skittles Jan 7 #24
I'm gonna post that bible quote that the nazis are so fond of. area51 Jan 7 #51
Why are you supporting Trump instead of Jimmy Carter delisen Jan 7 #7
Here I am watching Jimmy Carter's coffin being brought to the Capitol Boomerproud Jan 7 #9
TSF will do anything to keep the attention on him, even while we're in mourning for a man he'll never be Deuxcents Jan 7 #30
Trump is so stupid. idahoblue Jan 7 #10
How in the name of holy hell did we get here? C0RI0LANUS Jan 7 #12
Colonialism Deep State Witch Jan 7 #13
No. His thinking is limited to a few reptilian thoughts. There really is no critical thinking or concern for anyone else Evolve Dammit Jan 7 #19
Amerigo Vespucci? Trump never heard of the guy... Attilatheblond Jan 7 #32
Anything For Attention MissouriDem47 Jan 7 #14
Does that make America great again? James48 Jan 7 #15
Next: change the state name from New Mexico, to New America. James48 Jan 7 #16
Gulf of the Great Stupidity! Aussie105 Jan 7 #17
I believe the "bleached blonde, bad built, butch body" has or will, introduce a bill to do this. Evolve Dammit Jan 7 #18
No doubt...... AZ8theist Jan 8 #60
Id like to rename toilet plungers IcyPeas Jan 7 #20
MaddowBlog-'The Gulf of America': Trump vows to rename the Gulf of Mexico LetMyPeopleVote Jan 7 #21
Trump Canal, coming soon. twodogsbarking Jan 7 #22
Why not Gulf of Trump? endgenocide Jan 7 #23
The Most Elegant "Gulf of trDUMP Beach & Sauna",... magicarpet Jan 7 #31
Gulf of Trumpistan FSogol Jan 7 #38
imagine how this would be reported if Biden said it Skittles Jan 7 #25
Waiting for TSF to abolish all 50 states and call the country "Trumpland". no_hypocrisy Jan 7 #26
Don't give him any ideas... Blue_Roses Jan 8 #61
Can you imagine someone presenting to a hospital ER talking like this? Irish_Dem Jan 7 #27
After he repeals every environmental protection C_U_L8R Jan 7 #29
Trump's hurricane Sharpie is now a mental laser light sword bucolic_frolic Jan 7 #34
He has Put-In envy. Pendejo45 namesake matches his actions. n/t aggiesal Jan 7 #35
This is all Bullshit designed to cover johnnyfins Jan 7 #36
Precisely orangecrush Jan 8 #53
I still can't believe people can't see Unladen Swallow Jan 7 #37
And MTG is going to be his standard bearer in this scheme OnlinePoker Jan 7 #39
Trump season of idiocracy has returned in full blast... spudspud Jan 7 #40
AND WHO THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE IS??? THE KING OF THE WORLD??? YoshidaYui Jan 7 #41
His Magasty the Burger King William Seger Jan 7 #48
Why doesn't he just fucking die already? Orrex Jan 7 #42
Outrage clickbait of the day accomplished. Aristus Jan 7 #44
Mexico is an America. Mrsfiddlegirl Jan 7 #46
What a genius! PJMcK Jan 7 #47
I propose we change the name of Mar-a-lago to..... Crowman2009 Jan 7 #49
Harkens back to the nutty Freedom Fries years. C Moon Jan 7 #50
Here we go again. orangecrush Jan 8 #52
Just call it "The Concavity". LudwigPastorius Jan 8 #54
Gulf of Trump would be better! NGeorgian Jan 8 #55
Gulf of John Barron MadMike47 Jan 8 #56
How would this even work? SomewhereInTheMiddle Jan 8 #58
he can call shit whatever the fuck he wants to orleans Jan 8 #59
'And I am Marie of Roumania.' elleng Jan 8 #62
In the name of the English language and Christianity my town voted to change its name to tirebiter Jan 8 #63
Maybe the USA should be renamed The Gulf of Stupid. KY_EnviroGuy Jan 8 #64
He's a clown. The naming of international waters doesn't work like that. Oopsie Daisy Jan 8 #65

usaf-vet

(7,223 posts)
4. Sure and Mexico just sat there said nothing and paid for the wall.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 04:08 PM
Jan 7

It is another lie meant for the dumb low intelligent voters in America.

Attilatheblond

(5,046 posts)
28. It's his job. Gotta keep our eyes (reporters' eyes) on his insane antics lest we glimps what the oligarchs are up to.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 08:10 PM
Jan 7

Sideshow Bob, or is it Sideshow Blob?

delisen

(6,771 posts)
7. Why are you supporting Trump instead of Jimmy Carter
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 04:16 PM
Jan 7

The Trump gang are masters of propaganda. They are making outrageous comments to dominate the news cycle and obliterate Carter and virtuous leadership.

Repeating the garbage is doing Trump’s propaganda work for him,

Boomerproud

(8,576 posts)
9. Here I am watching Jimmy Carter's coffin being brought to the Capitol
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 04:27 PM
Jan 7

To lie in state and on the same day we're treated to insane ramblings. The world has lost its mooring.

idahoblue

(411 posts)
10. Trump is so stupid.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 04:30 PM
Jan 7

Trump is so stupid he thinks America is the United States. Gulf of America is not too bad, that includes all the countries south of us that he calls shitholes.

Deep State Witch

(11,580 posts)
13. Colonialism
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 05:05 PM
Jan 7

Granted, it was named "Gulf of Mexico" by the Spanish conquistadors. According to Wikipedia, the first non-Native person to explore it was Amerigo Vespucci.

However, I don't think that honoring Vespucci is what the Orange Horror has in mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico

Aussie105

(6,668 posts)
17. Gulf of the Great Stupidity!
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 06:04 PM
Jan 7

Canada is renamed 'North land of Barbarian Enemies.'

Mexico 'South land of the Barbarian Enemies.'

Maps are reprinted, all state names are abolished, instead . . . Central Trumpmenistan, Western Trumpmenistan, and Eastern, Northern and Southern Trumpmenistan.

Maps will have warnings on the oceans, 'Dragons live here, do not go!'


LetMyPeopleVote

(157,536 posts)
21. MaddowBlog-'The Gulf of America': Trump vows to rename the Gulf of Mexico
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 07:19 PM
Jan 7

“We’ll be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring,” the president-elect vowed. He wasn’t kidding.
https://bsky.app/profile/mynewsfeed.link/post/3lf67uz5jtb2g

‘The Gulf of America’: Trump vows to rename the Gulf of Mexico: "We’ll be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring," Donald Trump vowed. He wasn't kidding.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/-gulf-america-trump-vows-rename-gulf-mexico-rcna186611

It never occurred to me that this could become an actual goal of Republican officials in reality. And yet, with 13 days remaining before Inauguration Day, Donald Trump has inadvertently stolen my ridiculous idea and vowed to pursue it as part of his second-term agenda. This was the message the Republican president-elect shared during his latest press conference at Mar-a-Lago:

We’re going to be announcing at a future date, pretty soon, we’re going to change — because we do most of the work there, and it’s ours — we’re going be changing — sort of the opposite of Biden, where he’s closing everything up, essentially getting rid of $50 to $60 trillion worth of assets — we’ll be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring. That covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America: What a beautiful name. And it’s appropriate. It’s appropriate.


As a video clip from the event makes clear, the incoming American president is not kidding.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lf64i3h5w223

.....But stepping back, it’s worth taking stock of the Republican’s increasingly bizarre foreign policy agenda as he prepares to return to the White House. Since Election Day, Trump has:

leaned into the idea of adding Greenland to the United States;
talked with increasing enthusiasm about adding Canada to the U.S. through some kind of unexplained “merger”;
raised the prospect of the U.S. seizing control of the Panama Canal;
and vowed to impose trade tariffs on each of the U.S.’ three largest trade partners.

What’s more, asked at his Mar-a-Lago event whether he can “assure the world” that he won’t “use military or economic coercion” toward Greenland and Panama, the incoming president declined.

“No, I can’t assure you on either of those two, but I can say this, we need them for economic security,” Trump replied.

Irish_Dem

(63,182 posts)
27. Can you imagine someone presenting to a hospital ER talking like this?
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 08:10 PM
Jan 7

Can you imagine what the ER staff would think and do?

Mrsfiddlegirl

(29 posts)
46. Mexico is an America.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 10:29 PM
Jan 7

The Americas cover more tyan just the U.S. He is such a felonious ignorant moron. Let the stroke come soon please. I've never wished ill on another human in my lifetime, but this is a dire situation which demands extraordinary patience. I don't have enough patience to watch this insanity.

LudwigPastorius

(11,525 posts)
54. Just call it "The Concavity".
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 12:07 AM
Jan 8

...and, Trump can sell naming rights to the years.

2025 will become The Year of the Depends™ Adult Undergarment.

58. How would this even work?
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 02:24 AM
Jan 8

When I heard this, I asked myself what the actual mechanism for changing the name of an international body of water is.

From what little I can find it seems like it would have to go through the UN Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) to be internationally recognized.

Given Trump’s proven views on international organizations and cooperation therewith I don’t see him being able to push this through. Of course, he might be able to get a law passed saying all publications in the US are required to use the name, which would suck and make us more of a laughingstock, but that would have little impact on the rest of the world.
I just hope he forgets the idea by tomorrow morning and we never here about it again, except perhaps in late night talk show monologs.

At this point hope may be all we have left.

tirebiter

(2,610 posts)
63. In the name of the English language and Christianity my town voted to change its name to
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 04:44 AM
Jan 8

Holy Cross at the end of the 19th century. Problem was nobody else in the world changed their maps. We are still listed as Santa Cruz, California

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,633 posts)
64. Maybe the USA should be renamed The Gulf of Stupid.
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 07:22 AM
Jan 8

or, United Stupidity Association. The world is again watching all this with disgust and we will be paying the price with loss of trust and increasing economic penalty.

TFG is trying to keep his minions in a froth of ignorant BS that he knows won't work just to keep them corralled in his system of grifts.

Next, I expect them to start selling large wall maps of the world with new labels to match his drug-fueled dreams.

...... .......

Oopsie Daisy

(5,162 posts)
65. He's a clown. The naming of international waters doesn't work like that.
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 07:46 AM
Jan 8

Decisions to rename a shared inland sea or major lake would likely involve diplomatic negotiations and consensus-building among the countries that border it. Any attempt by one country to unilaterally rename a shared body of water without the agreement of other neighboring countries would likely face challenges and could potentially lead to diplomatic tensions.

While countries can have influence over the naming of bodies of water within their own territorial waters, renaming internationally recognized bodies of water, such as the Gulf of Mexico, would likely require widespread international consensus and recognition.

It is unlikely that a US President and a compliant Congress could unilateraly rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" without facing significant challenges in terms of international acceptance and recognition. Similarly, any nation seeking to rename any major body of water would need to navigate complex diplomatic processes and seek approval from the International community.

Obviously, the naming of international waters and bodies od water is a complex and multilateral process. It would involve considerations of history, geography, geopolitics, and international norms (LOL) rather than being a decision that can be arbitrarily made by a single country or leader.

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