You're 100% right it's about aggressively establishing the new normal, in other words. The US is letting mask fall and saying we run the world. If you don't like it fuck off. How the world reacts to Trump will decide how powerful the US is in the years to come
American exceptionalism has proved to be Americas downfall.
No going back now.
Historically it has never ended well for a nation that feels it has to fly the flag outside every house and sing its anthem at every opportunity and brainwash its children with jingoistic claptrap at school.
This is another piece of red meat for his supporters, distracting them from the stuff going on quietly out of the spotlight like wrecking the agency which fights for consumer protection and rights etc. They’re all happy because he said he’s going to rename the Gulf of Mexico, by how does that improve their material conditions? He’s giving them lots of “owning the libs” and for now, until the other stuff kicks in and affects them personally, they are swallowing it hook, line & sinker.
What the Spaniards and French call the channel of La Manche is named by the British and North Americans as the English Channel. And nothing important happens. Same ways, the Persian gulf is called by the Arabs the Arab gulf. And it is ok. So the worrisome matter is what lies behind this stupid and baseless change of geographic denomination.
He's already blocked AP News journalists from press meetings as punishment for them calling it the 'wrong name'. He's not the most powerful man, but rather a child whom the powerful have given powerful toys. However, fuck him. My heart goes out to the hardworking trafficking cartels who made the mistake of using Google, and are now lost at sea.
The Gulf of America is actually what it is, since Mexico and the United States are part of America. I'd be more offended if the orange Mussolini renamed it "The Gulf of the United States"
That might be the 'Gulf of the Americas' which would be a great name. Unfortunately, that's not what Donald Trump is going for here. He's doing a nationalistic strongman move.
That’s correct. ‘America’ refers to only one thing: The United States of America. It’s simple nomenclature. ‘The Americas’ refers to the combined continents of North and South America. No Canadian or Mexican would ever say ‘I’m American’, but they could easily say they were ’North American’.
The whole set of controversies and disputes over ‘Hispanic’ ‘Latino’ cultures and ‘Latin America’ itself seem odd when you remember that all of those Pedr-r-ro’s and R-r-r-rosa’s so devotedly rolling their R’s, even when speaking English, are paying tribute to the language of brutal conquerors.
But does it really matter? Europeans refer to the English Channel by different names. These include “La Manche” in French, “Engelse Kanaal” in Dutch, “Armelkanal” in German, “El canal de la mancha” in Spanish, and “Mor Udd” in Welsh. At least someone talked him out of calling it “The Gulf Of Trump”.
You're 100% right it's about aggressively establishing the new normal, in other words. The US is letting mask fall and saying we run the world. If you don't like it fuck off. How the world reacts to Trump will decide how powerful the US is in the years to come
I’m a U.S. citizen, and it’s the Gulf of Mexico! I do think you’re right about the Orange man’s motives.
I'm reasonably certain that in Mexico, the body of water in question will remain el Golfo de México.
Until Trump demands that the whole world speaks only US English.
American exceptionalism has proved to be Americas downfall.
No going back now.
Historically it has never ended well for a nation that feels it has to fly the flag outside every house and sing its anthem at every opportunity and brainwash its children with jingoistic claptrap at school.
This is another piece of red meat for his supporters, distracting them from the stuff going on quietly out of the spotlight like wrecking the agency which fights for consumer protection and rights etc. They’re all happy because he said he’s going to rename the Gulf of Mexico, by how does that improve their material conditions? He’s giving them lots of “owning the libs” and for now, until the other stuff kicks in and affects them personally, they are swallowing it hook, line & sinker.
Should have called it the Gulf in Empathy.
Google are wankers and removed Palestine from their maps ages ago. They can fuck right off.
What the Spaniards and French call the channel of La Manche is named by the British and North Americans as the English Channel. And nothing important happens. Same ways, the Persian gulf is called by the Arabs the Arab gulf. And it is ok. So the worrisome matter is what lies behind this stupid and baseless change of geographic denomination.
He's already blocked AP News journalists from press meetings as punishment for them calling it the 'wrong name'. He's not the most powerful man, but rather a child whom the powerful have given powerful toys. However, fuck him. My heart goes out to the hardworking trafficking cartels who made the mistake of using Google, and are now lost at sea.
I wonder if he will change Washington to Trumpton ;) https://youtu.be/s6YE4PCRNwc?si=bUoHdjoxapnuB-zT
The Gulf of America is actually what it is, since Mexico and the United States are part of America. I'd be more offended if the orange Mussolini renamed it "The Gulf of the United States"
That might be the 'Gulf of the Americas' which would be a great name. Unfortunately, that's not what Donald Trump is going for here. He's doing a nationalistic strongman move.
That’s correct. ‘America’ refers to only one thing: The United States of America. It’s simple nomenclature. ‘The Americas’ refers to the combined continents of North and South America. No Canadian or Mexican would ever say ‘I’m American’, but they could easily say they were ’North American’.
The whole set of controversies and disputes over ‘Hispanic’ ‘Latino’ cultures and ‘Latin America’ itself seem odd when you remember that all of those Pedr-r-ro’s and R-r-r-rosa’s so devotedly rolling their R’s, even when speaking English, are paying tribute to the language of brutal conquerors.
But does it really matter? Europeans refer to the English Channel by different names. These include “La Manche” in French, “Engelse Kanaal” in Dutch, “Armelkanal” in German, “El canal de la mancha” in Spanish, and “Mor Udd” in Welsh. At least someone talked him out of calling it “The Gulf Of Trump”.
Are you sure about the Welsh? I don't speak Welsh although I live in Wales but I've heard Y Sianel
No, I’m not at all sure. I got it from a brief article on the subject and it could easily be wrong.
Perhaps you were thinking of the Black Sea: Y Môr Ddu?