Why is Lesser Canada trying to rename the Gulf of Mexico?
We can unilaterally rename the US, right?
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2025
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Duck it, I'll call it Golfo de México from now on.
We don't call North Korea the "DPRK" or "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". We don't call Taiwan the "Republic of China". Heck, we call football "soccer".
Sometimes, people have different names for different things, and that's OK. If Trump wants to waste time and effort renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America to stroke his own ego, that's his choice. That doesn't mean everybody else has to play ball. He can't use military might to force other countries to adopt the name change, just like North Korea can't force us to refer to them as the DPRK.
My bigger thought is what kind of geopolitical laughing stock the US is going to look like four years from now. I mean we're 5 days into his term and he's already promising to create an entire branch of government to show the rest of the world he has no fucking idea how tariffs work, he's threatening to take Greenland of all places by force, and now one of his cronies wants to use military might to force other countries to adopt an irrelevant name change.
It's like the country is being run by Kim Jong Un.