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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 66 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Invade Mexico, invade greenland, rename the gulf..... hello... he's bonkers, what the fuck are we doing letting this shit back in power....

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[–] officermike@lemmy.world 98 points 3 days ago (11 children)

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."

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 58 points 3 days ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] febra@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But then they bitch about China and their wrongdoings in the South China Sea

[–] Trilobite@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

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."

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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!"

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[–] alcibiades@lemm.ee 29 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 days ago

It mostly would.

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

[–] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

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

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[–] No1@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wait till he 'rebrands' to

Ameristan

or maybe

Trumpmania

[–] Whateley@lemm.ee 47 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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!

^the^ ^increasingly^ ^loud^ ^hum^ ^of^ ^cognitive^ ^dissonance^ ^in^ ^the^ ^face^ ^of^ ^a^ ^nonsensical^ ^reality^ ^grows^ ^slightly^ ^higher^ ^pitched^

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 6 points 2 days ago

The media now see's it's job as shutting up and taking the bait, i see

[–] Katrisia@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, good luck convincing the rest of the world to change to fit your wants.

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