GULF of MEXICO: President Trump announced today that he will be renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Here are the details:
— @amuse (@amuse) January 7, 2025
– Step One: President Trump Signs an EO
– Step Two: Congress Passes a Bill (optional)
– Step Three: The U.S. Board on Geographic Names… pic.twitter.com/GpVVxTSn72
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I actually call it “The American Sea”. That’s how Caroline Jones refers to it in her song Gulf Coast Girl. I think she got that right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgQcX8LKcIU&list=PL0amVbyr4k7gI8c-JYR1EN99ul-QrTHrZ&index=8
Wow, what an egotistical waste… like when chyna decided to rename those coral reefs they’re building up in the south china sea.
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1876351873705488739
Property taxes are due by midnight tonight.
silly antics make you look silly, Mr. President, enough.
^This. I took the original post as a joke, but the first sentence is straight news.
I hope Trump is joking. Annexing Canada as the 51st state was a joke, too, right? Enough of the silliness.
If it is renamed, I saw that any treaties,laws or executive orders for the Gulf of Mexico are not valid.
Seriously, DRenegade? Is that how treaties etc. work, that the named entity no longer exists (regardless of its identity being completely clear from context), therefore, the treaties etc. become ineffective?
I get how, say, the re-unified Vietnam would have insisted on re-writing treaties and contracts saying “South Vietnam”, but this is not a case like treaties with the Ottoman Empire, which truly did no longer exist *as an empire*.
I believe governments do what they want. Just because I saw it does not make it true or that I believe it. If that is the plan, I would change some of the existing boundaries to make it a different “gulf”. But you can get into the weeds if you want.
Despite the naysayer comments above, I think it’s fantastic. It SHOULD be called the Gulf of America. It does several things… it honors our country, is establishes that President Trump has a number of things he’s doing, and this is just one of them, and it tells Mexico to pound sand. It’s brilliant.
Cue the exploding heads in 3…2…1.
Meh. Silly, jingoistic attempt at manipulative PR. Remember when we tried to turn French fries into freedom fries? Yeah, nobody says freedom fries. This is the kind of ridiculous crap that gets time and resources thrown at it, and is nothing but fiddling while Rome burns. But it’ll get the simple minded to engage in some “rah rah, zis boom bah, America hell yeah!” stuff to keep themselves from thinking about how screwed we truly are. Hey, it might give them a little boost until the Stuporbowl, at any rate.
Besides, barring a successful “operation wetback 2.0”, we may as well rename this place Mexico. It has nearly all the dysfunctionality, criminality, and corruption of the actual Mexico, and a goodly portion of it’s population here already. Ergo, the name change for the Gulf might stick for a couple of years before the name “America” becomes an anachronism anyway, and the name can be changed back.
Of course, if Elon gets his desired H1B numbers, it’ll eventually be the Gulf of New Delhi.
“The Bay of FUSA” makes more sense as we’re already FUSA……
I’m pretty sure this is Trump trolling the batcrap crazy Left and ruffle their jimmies. I’m veryi amused by their reaction.
Just a name folks. I doubt the world is going to change their maps to reflect this. Meaningless.
I’m just glad there are no other pressing matters that require attention than this. Happy times are here again!