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

Moderates who "voted for the economy" right now: 🤡
- 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".
  
  talk about a revisionist take. the ask was to promise to enforce american laws regarding arm sales to isreal. but you do you mate. enjoy your trump presidency you certainly earned it.
- 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.

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
  
  He's trying to get things like this and Greenland in the headlines so that he can do the actually harmful things without too much notice.
  
  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?

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!
  
  The US doesn't have exclusive rights to "America" as a name.
  Agreed. Let's also change our demonym to Unitedstatian.
- 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).
  
  I’m sure Canada would love that influx of crazy
  
  Cascadia awaits...
- 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.

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."

Invade Mexico, invade greenland, rename the gulf..... hello... he's bonkers, what the fuck are we doing letting this shit back in power....
- Well, you see. We let those willfully ignorant fucks in the bible belt vote for some reason.
  
  I've never seen a more vibrant walking, talking example of the need for the 25th amendment.
- 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.
  
  You
  lol get fucked with that

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Actual, literal toddlers are really taking over the US, aren't they?

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

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.

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?

Delusional LMAO.

This will go over about as well as the Sacagawea dollar coin, and the coin had the advantage of actually being a good idea.

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?
- 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.
- 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.

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.
  
  Patriot theatrics was stupid then, and it's stupid now. I remember being extremely frustrated that no one could tell me why a better (more location specific?) name wasn't more popular. It's not like "freedom" is exlusive to the US.

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

Wait until he hears about Mexico not being named America either!
- Anyone think he'll want to take over the rest of Mexico and make it part of America?

The Onion is running out of material

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

It's Freedom Fries & W ketchup all over again...

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".

I guess "Bumpkin Bay" is a little too on the nose.
Or maybe "Gulf Of Florida Man."

Which America? South America? North America? How can it be the gulf of the entire continent?

In other news, the moon will be called Lunar America and the Pacific Ocean is now known as the Sea of Freedom.

so glad the new government is focussing on this woke nonsense and not things that matter to ordinary people

He's NOT too Old to be President!
- I really hope he just dies. And not from a shooter. I don't want his base to have him as a martyr. I want him to have a clogged artery, or a heart attack, and just his body gives out. With his lifestyle, and his eating habits, it wouldn't be too hard to imagine. I mean, he LOVES McDonalds! He can't even eat it when it's hot out of the restaurant. He has to send someone to go get it. Which means he's eating these fries cold, and the sandwiches are luke warm at BEST.
  Which really goes to help explain how/why he served that basketball team plates and plates of hours cold McDonalds. THAT'S WHAT HE'S USED TO!!! THAT'S WHAT HE THINKS IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE!!!
  Meanwhile, I'm 20-30 years younger, was raised on fast food, and now I can't even eat beef because it gave me cancer. I'm doing my best to try to avoid the foods I'm NOT supposed to have, but that's what I was raised on. That's what I love. I'm also a former alcoholic who gave up drinking. Cold turkey. Imagine one day having to upend your entire palate, and eat only foods you don't like. But I'm doing it. I know it's what my body needs.
  Meanwhile this guy is out here literally greasy with junk food, probably 100lbs heavier than I am, 20-30 years older than I am, and he's just hoppin around just fine! While I had to spend almost a year of my life hooked up to radioactive bags to pump cancer drugs into me for days at a time, making me so weak at the time that some days I couldn't even get out of bed.
  AND THE GOVERNMENT SAID CANCER IS NOT A DISABILITY!!!
  I hate this fat fuck for so many reasons. Many of which are probably shared by the vast majority of you here. But on a personal level I hate him for being the living embodiment of how NOT to take care of yourself, and he's facing no consequences for it. I want the consequences. I want him to have to stop his lifestyle. If I can't even cook my own 90% lean cheeseburgers, I damn sure want him to suffer not being able to eat fast food anymore.
  Because everyday he doesn't, it's like saying to me "YOU can't have the foods you love, because it'll make your body sick. However, THIS GUY, who's an irredeemable piece of shit can go ahead and do much much worse with zero consequences, because fuck you."
  So yeah. I want him to stuff his piggy little face, and just fall to the floor clutching his chest. I don't want a shooter. I don't want some agent of another government bombing him. I want his death to be his OWN doing. I want him for once in his god damn life to have to answer to consequences of his own actions. I've had to do it for years now. I don't even recognize myself anymore based on my own habits now. Eating honey nut cherrios in the morning? What the fuck? What happened to a bacon double cheeseburger and a bottle of whiskey?
  Oh, right. The consequences of my own actions treating my body like shit.
  So.....where's his??? He's been treating his body like shit for twice as long as I have. Where's his consequence moment???
  
  I really hope he just dies. And not from a shooter. I don't want his base to have him as a martyr. I want him to have a clogged artery, or a heart attack, and just his body gives out.
  Have you had the displeasure of knowing QAnon cultists? There's very little doubt in my mind that they would do anything but delude themselves into thinking that Ding-dong Donald is still alive. I even have the start of a bingo list prepared for what they might claim actually happened:
  Liberal media and the next Democrat candidate are lying and trying to manipulate voters for the next election.
  Vance is attempting a coup by lying about The President's health.
  Trump faked his death because (insert scapegoat demographic) were onto him for trying to bust their (insert scapegoat topic).
  Trump is actually in a presidential safehouse for his protection because "the elites" want him dead for thwarting their plans to ruin America with DEI and the Woke Mind Virus™.
  At Trump's request, the FBI released a fake obituary and made Vance the face so Trump could spend more time fixing America and less time on press conferences.
  
  Its my dream that he loudly shits himself within earshot of a really good microphone when he keels over.

Ah, focusing on the importance issues concerning Americans, truly making us great again!

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.

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

This is the first step to annex another region.
Historical Claim
Support separatist or militia in these region
Fabricate or Encourage attack on the border
Impose light economical sanctions
People in such country will get fed up and will increase clashes with the government.
Government start anti-usa imperialism and start military campaign against them.
USA say they are committing genocide or something and question their sovereignty
USA announce special operation to restore peace
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.
- 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".
  Israel chasing historical Zionist aim of occupying southern Lebanon, wider region: Expert
  Middle East latest: Israel plans an extended occupation of Syrian buffer zone
  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...
  
  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"

People are sleeping under bridges while they work 40hrs a week... Wtf did you people vote for? I famously abstained entirely for lack of a quality candidate. I'd vote for myself, but I won't be responsible for their shit cannery.
- People are sleeping under bridges while they work 40hrs a week… Wtf did you people vote for?
  People sleeping under bridges weren't the ones enfranchised to vote.