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Trump wants to relabel New Mexico as New America days after changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake Ameria

Donald Trump has already changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, and now he’s targeting a US state for a rebrand.

Trump is spending the holiday weekend dreaming up his next demand to relabel America’s geography. He posted a map on Truth Social Sunday afternoon of New Mexico, but the word Mexico was crossed out and replaced with America.

Relabeling the southwestern state on the U.S.-Mexico border as New America is reminiscent of an executive order he signed early in his second term, in which he changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

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[-] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Oh and how about the gas prices soaring due to shortages, because he fucked up in Iran when thinking that would be another distraction?

[-] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 80 points 6 days ago

jesus fucking christ i cannot wait until he finally fucking dies.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 days ago

Ahhh, the democrats only strategy

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[-] wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago

Along with all his shit for brains supporters.

[-] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Good news. Boomers die at the rate of one every 14.2 seconds.

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[-] BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago

So, if the USA is so great, then why did they make USB?

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[-] Tango@piefed.ca 59 points 6 days ago

I'm considering renaming the United States of America to Cringetopia

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Oligarchia would be more on the nose.

[-] 3abas@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Pedophilia.

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 days ago

Absurdistan is already there

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[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 27 points 6 days ago

He is the dog that finally caught the car. He never knew why he chased it, just that there was a need within him to chase it. And because he expended so much effort into chasing the car he now needs to demonstrate to all the other dogs that he totally knew what he was doing the whole time and even more totally knows what a car is and what to do with it.

This is why he doesn't actually do anything truly "presidential." His idea of being president is the same as when my kid was 8 and said "if I'm ever president, I'm gonna..." and then some cute but completely totalitarian nonsense comes out their mouth. Just as he's the poor man's idea of a rich man, he's a child's idea of the president.

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[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 days ago
[-] VictorPrincipum@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

His effectiveness as a leader has been very Aladeen.

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[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 48 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think his obsession with renaming things is so he can have his "legacy" where people a hundred years from now will read in school how the gulf of america used to be called gulf of Mexico until Donald J Trump renamed it.

This way he can do it immediately and without any approvals or permissions from anyone else and it doesn't cost a dime (upfront that he needs permission for, it still costs millions to remake maps and public education posters/billboards and school textbooks and government websites, etc.)

He just doesn't have the foresight to recognize that whatever president comes next will just revert all changes.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

He doesn't care. He's trying to tank the US in every way possible so that he and his billionaire friends can buy it up in a fire sale, and create 13-15 tech dominated duchies/kingdoms that own all the people in their borders. That's why they only want a total of 150,000,000 people alive by the end of 2028. They think their robots will be able to control us, not realizing that they don't work, won't work, and we can create portable EMP devices.

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[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago

Those who accuse someone of having Trump derangement syndrome should be called pedophile defenders.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You know another name for a Pedophile Defender?

Pedophile.

If there is a Nazi sitting at a dinner table and the other 9 people aren't actively beating the absolute shit of them then there are 10 Nazis having dinner together

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Trump derangement syndrome

Remember, there were conservatives that claim to actually be adults, in office, that advocated for making that a real mental illness, Soviet style.

Meanwhile, I don't think I've ever seen any example of someone with any of this "derangement". It's just people that point out tiny-d donnie's terrible qualities.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-derangement-syndrome-minnesota-bill-republicans-b2717145.html

[-] Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 20 points 6 days ago

Just to be clear, he hasn't renamed shit. No one is actually gonna follow these bullshit renames after he's dead or out of office. People in every other country and half of your own won't and anyone who does is gonna be a laughing stock. Fucking moronic shit the media spends time legitimizing.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Im going to continute to deadname the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, all my trans homies are doing it.

[-] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

They're not deadnames. Its called ignoring malicious labels.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 40 points 6 days ago
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[-] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 38 points 6 days ago

We have reached the point where I genuinely cannot tell reality from satire.
"Is this real? Am I eating the onion?"
I don't even know anymore.

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[-] BenReilly23@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago

This MF is such an embarrassment . Just boundless stupidity every fucking day . Give us one day man damn .

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Also, the US: "the UN should spend their time doing other things than worrying about maps."

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[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

In a sane world this guy would be in a nursing home somewhere.

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

He should change the name of the "United States of America" to the "American Americas of America"

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[-] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 30 points 6 days ago

I posted this somewhere last week but it's just as relevant here:

I listened to this podcast recently:

Well, so we know we went and saw him in the middle of the war. I mean, early stages of the war, very intense period of the war, about two weeks and a bit into the war with Iran. And he the thing he first thing he wanted us to see, he was holding up photographs of maple trees. And he's saying, you know, I'm buying these maple trees for the White House. Turns out I'm good at buying trees. And then underneath it were photographs of the ballroom and the columns. He wanted us to know the columns are, I think, bigger than the Supreme Court's columns or more of them or what have you. And one side was inspired by Athens and the other side by Rome. This occupied probably first 15 minutes of our time with him before we got to anything to do with the Iran war.

and earlier ...

It's truly an inordinate amount of his time is spent redecoration, renovation, the ballroom, but also building monuments and naming things after himself. It's become an obsession. And we have a scene in the book, actually, in the Oval Office last October where he he's talking to a couple of visitors about he wants to build essentially a replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Washington, which they call internally the Arc de Trump. You know, he's got different models of it. There's a huge one, a middle one, a small one. You know, he wants it to be bigger than the Lincoln Memorial. Anyway, he's in the room with some of his agents. He says, let's call Emmanuel. Let's call Emmanuel. Ask because he had some questions he wanted to know about the Arc de Triomphe, which presumably he could have just Googled. [...] But instead, he gets Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, on the speakerphone. And he starts asking Emmanuel, you know, does your arch have a viewing platform? Do people jump off it? You know, all this. How big is the arch? You know, all these sort of questions about the arch. So I just there's no way that I can overstate how much time is spent on these matters.

(emphasis added)

That last sentence has really stuck with me.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

This is the guy that the American people voted for. Twice.

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[-] cinoreus@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh yeah, US midterms are coming. Finally realised what's driving this guys maniac episode.

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

When will he rename "pedophilic disorder" to "American disorder"?

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[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What about New York, New Jersey and New Hampshire? Four New Americas is going to get confusing. Since stupidity seems to be the primary objective, I would suggest:

New Mexico -> New America

New York -> New New America

New Jersey -> New New New America

New Hampshire -> New New New New America

[-] himmyguap@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Only New Mexico is the problem to him. The other three states don't contain the name of a place where a lot of brown people live.

[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

He's got to know all of these will be changed back when he fucking finally dies, right? Right?

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[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago

None of these things change the name. they direct the federal government to use that name but in the case of a state he might actually have stumbled onto something that is unconcstitutional.

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[-] generator@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 days ago

And already have a theme song

Bad Religion - "New America"
https://youtu.be/ImxE7y9zqYM

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 11 points 6 days ago

What other shitty thing(s) is his administration doing that needs burying in the news cycle?

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[-] 404found@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

If we follow similar logic, Mar-A-Lago should be renamed too because that is Spanish.

[-] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

I have never seen such creativity before /s

[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Just want to remind everyone that everything the US ever had is stolen, including the term "America". The whole fucking continent is named America you stupid fuck, who said you can use it for your country? Everyone in North, South and Central America is American.

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[-] Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

It’s almost as if his syphllitic, dementia-addled brain can’t remember the names of things so he just calls every thing “America”

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