Jesus fucking Christ, it's like they're TRYING to embarrass our entire nation from every single department possible. 10 years ago this would've amused me more than anything, even if only slightly. But now? Everyday is just another brand new stupid example of our own incompetence with somewhere around a 50/50 split between embarrassing and infuriating. I've never been a gung-ho, America-first, capital-P "Patriot", but I never would've even conceived that we would sink so low so quickly; every new rock-bottom simply becomes a new surface-layer to be strip-mined of any remaining shred of dignity, empathy, and humanity

Y'all, you can't convince me this wasn't intentional.

Intentionally sloppy. Intentional negligence. A presentation slide about grant money for HIV/AIDS prevention as a "Fuck You" to an entire continent? Sounds about right.

The fact the Ivory Coast is land locked in this should have been an alarm to double check it.

The onion was prophetic once again

I mean, this is the country that keeps getting the Gulf of Mexico wrong...

Those are made up shapes, too.

This is terrible! Could somebody please.............. find Peter Mutharika? Get hold of this gentleman so I can make sense of all this. WHERE IS PETE?

What's weird about this is, whether you like it or not, chatGPT can generate an image of Africa with correct geography and country labels.

Not sure how they managed to fuck this up.

This is so wrong in so many ways that if you told me it was a The Onion article with a made up map, I would believe you. Nothing makes sense. The lines don't go anywhere, all the colors are mismatched. The position, but also the size and the shapes are all wrong. I would bet all the data is also made up and have nothing to do with reality.

Additionally:

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-government-map-africa-mislabels-every-country-global-conference-2026-07-30/

oil

cheap labour

diamonds

minerals

Seems simple enough.

If you want to challenge your knowledge of geography and maps try travle.

AI enables idiots to fuck up ten times quicker.

this is, and I cannot stress this enough, so fucking embarassing for the USA

ivory coast

Landlocked

I assumed this was a MAGA flex.

I feel bad for teachers who have to convince students that reliance on slop is unacceptable when the fucking government does it all day long and no one gets fired

AI may have amplified the problem, but the underlying issue, as usual, is incompetent people. We have an executive branch made up entirely of people who are slavishly loyal to Trump. Since only spineless idiots can qualify, that's what we get across the board.

Clown show government

A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools.

Yeah, go figure. And they should be rightfully shamed for using AI to make a diplomatic presentation.