Trump Really Is Renaming the Gulf of Mexico on Day 1 of MAGA 2.0

[Eugene]

Trump Really Is Renaming the Gulf of Mexico on Day 1 of MAGA 2.0 (The Daily Beast)

Part of Donald Trump’s long list of day one executive orders is a pair of controversial name changes.

Trump is set to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” and revert Alaska’s Mt. Denali back to its previous name of Mount McKinley, the New York Post reported.

A preview of the orders said the immediate change is to honor “American greatness.”

Trump, 78, is expected to sign off on nearly 200 executive actions by the end of his first day in office. It is the latest proof he plans to flex his power immediately in his second term after he won the popular vote and swept all seven swing states.

https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-really-renaming-gulf-mexico-141808734.html

[malaise]

1. We will continue to call it

The Gulfe of Mexico.

It’s all form for this fucker

[LuckyCharms]

2. Yes! That will make grocery prices go down!

[Dave Bowman]

3. This is so incredibly ridiculous, the rest of the world will point and laugh.

[Danmel]

4. Oh for fucks sake

There isn't enough alcohol in the world for this.

[LisaL]

8. Yep.

Gotta buy some before prices go up.

[Danmel]

20. We stocked up yesterday

[LuckyCharms]

10. LOL!

[Biophilic]

5. I am so glad that he and his crew have put extra thought into how to help American citizens.

Ok, perhaps not, but it will give the rest of the world a good laugh.

[LisaL]

6. As US doesn't own the Gulf of Mexico,

WTF makes Trump think he can just rename it?

[GoCubsGo]

32. Well, the spirochetes that infest his brain

are being addled by all of the drugs he has been snorting all his miserable fucking life...

[Jit423]

7. I still call Reagan National Airport, DC National Airport.

And i still call Trump a Putin puppet.

[3catwoman3]

28. So do I, and I always will.

[Oopsie Daisy]

29. Yep... it's just "National" for us. Or Washington National.

[JI7]

9. Don any of these involve lowering grocery costs

[dalton99a]

11. He will lower prices by changing government statistics

with his big beautiful pen if necessary

[JI7]

13. This just reminded me about how he signed bills and other things

How he has a huge ugly signature which he holds up to the camera whenever he signs something.

[redwitch]

15. Kindergarten show and tell.

I won’t be watching.

[jmowreader]

43. The "big beautiful pen" he pays ten bucks a dozen for at Staples, right?

[4th gen blue]

12. Cuban has to be concerned

Trump my try to finish what JFK failed at the Bay of Pigs.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Is Canada going to be named a US state?

[North Shore Chicago]

16. Sure

Trump, 78, is expected to sign off on nearly 200 executive actions by the end of his first day in office. It is the latest proof he plans to flex his power immediately in his second term after he won the popular vote and swept all seven swing states.


Won the popular vote and won all 7 swing states. I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS FOR A MOMENT!!

[wnylib]

17. So, does this mean that the FIC (felon in chief) is claiming ownership

of all the hurricanes that enter the Gulf?

With his energy policies, he should.

[struggle4progress]

18. Here's a McKinley song

[sinkingfeeling]

19. The Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali, it is.

[jayschool2013]

39. Deenaalee and El Golfo de Mexico

Fvck that asshole.

[mentalsolstice]

21. I will continue to live on the Gulf of Mexico.

Yes indeed, thank you. And I will continue to refer to the great mountain, Denali.

[HereForTheParty]

22. Can he really change it? How is it officially done?

Or just hot air?

[PurgedVoter]

23. The reason we call a banana a banana is because you will sound like an idiot if you call it an apple

Sure the history of a word matters, but communication is the entire point.
Not sure the constitution give him the right to name things. If there is a department that has the power to arbitrarily rename stuff on it's own volition, then an executive order might suffice unless blocked by the courts or congress, but I don't think we have such a department. If it was a fort still owned by the military, then yeah, maybe. Or if it were a national park, then probably. Congress and the courts can still cancel executive orders. But unless the English Department has secretly existed all this time, I don't think he can change the language.

I motion that we declare T***p the Gulf of Reason. Will someone second that motion?

[Wiz Imp]

24. These are both effectively meaningless

[underpants]

25. What complete clown show. 🤡

[Dem4life1234]

26. Everyone should ask him

So how does this lower prices?

MAGAts are the dumbest human beings in Earth.

[FarPoint]

27. The United States does not own this body of water.

I can't see this order affecting any other countries choice... He's such a fool.

[Oopsie Daisy]

30. That's not how it works.

[Paladin]

31. Fuck this shit. (nt)

[rsdsharp]

33. It's not ours to name. He can probably get away with the Denali nonsense.

[keep_left]

40. For God's sake, even Sarah Palin called it Denali! Anyone remember...

...her ridiculous farewell speech? Here it is, along with William Shatner's satirical "beat poet" version from the Conan show, using Palin's speech verbatim. (See 0:44 and 1:36).

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[jayschool2013]

34. JFC

What an asshole.

[LuckyCharms]

35. I'm surprised he didn't name it after himself. "Gulf of Fuckface".

[jayschool2013]

36. Imma call it

"El Golfo de México."

Fvck that asshole.

[DFW]

37. He can call the Inuit people "Apaches" if he wants to.

It does not make them Apaches any more than it makes their mountain "McKinley."

[Cuthbert Allgood]

38. Alaska doesn't want it renamed. What a dick.

And I don't think we get naming rights on the fucking Gulf of Mexico.

But it's all fodder for his cult.

[Efilroft Sul]

41. Won't somebody please think of the cartographers? They must be laughing themselves to death at this order.

[chowmama]

42. What a dweeb