During a press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 7, the 78-year-old president-elect shared his plan for renaming the Gulf of Mexico. “We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” Trump told reporters.
  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    doesn’t even break the top-10 of stupidest shit to come out of his mouth this week.

  • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    27·
    2 days ago

    Half of me wants to start keeping a personal tally of all the bullshit that comes out of this embarrassment while the other half just wants to cancel my internet to avoid the emotional trauma.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      I’m also at this crossroads. I think a sub for link-dumping would be great because he doesn’t deserve the time of day to curate him a list that nobody will read.

      • prole
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        1 day ago

        Burying your head in the sand is satisfying? You do you I guess…

        • figjam@midwest.socialEnglish
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          22 hours ago

          Its a fine line innit? The hope is that I can stay up to date on “stuff” without being terminally online or interacting with the soon to be constant barrage of nonsense like “Rename the gulf of Mexico!” or “We’re buying Greenland!” as well as the endless hand wringing and ultimately pointless reactions to the crisis du jour.

  • RedWeasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 days ago

    Why is he thinking so small? Why not rename the Pacific Ocean to American Ocean? China and Japan have seas and India has an Ocean.

    • Nasan@sopuli.xyz
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      2 days ago

      The Atlantic Ocean belongs to Atlanta. To make it sound more like how it’s pronounced by the locals, we’ll rename it the A-lan-nic Ocean.

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago

    One wonders how upset he’ll be when he learns that Mexico is in America. North America, even.

    • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
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      2 days ago

      We won’t. That’s true enough. For tradition alone we won’t; Just like we don’t change to the metric system.

      But it’s not exactly stupid. There are several countries and two continents that surround The Gulf. It’s not unreasonable to name it after both the continents that make it. I’m not even sure how it became named after just a single country anyway.

      Really it’s just another stupid fucking distraction that shouldn’t get any attention from any of us.

      • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 days ago

        Let me tell you about the Persian gulf and the South China Sea.

        When the gulf was named by European explorers in the 1580s, Mexico (as a region colonized by Spain) was the most important thing in the main land. Some Spanish maps from the same time period also called it Gulf of New Spain.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        But it’s not exactly stupid. There are several countries and two continents that surround The Gulf. It’s not unreasonable to name it after both the continents that make it.

        Not quite, the gulf is entirely contained within North America and borders the US, Mexico, and Cuba.

        Once you go around the Yucatan Peninsula, you’re no longer in the gulf, you’re in the Yucatan Channel and then the Yucatan Basin portion of the Caribbean Sea.

        But you’re right in that it’s not exactly stupid, just eyeballing it, it looks like the US has more square miles on the gulf than Mexico does.