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.
  • officermike@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does. We should just leave it alone.

    Wouldn’t surprise me if this was inspired to circumvent the new ban on oil drilling Biden just enacted. “We’re drilling in the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of Mexico.”

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      17 days ago

      The US doesn’t have exclusive rights to “America” as a name. In fact strictly speaking “Gulf of America” is not a bad name since it is the largest gulf in the Americas AFAIK.

      • jg1i@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        17 days ago

        The US doesn’t have exclusive rights to “America” as a name.

        Agreed. Let’s also change our demonym to Unitedstatian.

        • Rinox@feddit.itEnglish
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          15 days ago

          You joke but in many languages they do that, for instance “statunitensi” or “estadounidenses”

          • jg1i@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 days ago

            I don’t joke actually. I chose “Unitedstatians” exactly because that’s what other languages do.