What’s next, Trumpington D.C.?
And like many stupid people, he doesn’t understand the difference between ownership and sovereignty.
The Persian/arabic Gulf is a good example. As another example, I guess our Argentinian doper (Hi, @Frodo !) could tell us a lot about naming an archipelago Islas Malvinas or Falkland Islands.
Then there is the I-don’t-know-how-many-dashes line in the South China Sea, shown in some maps but not in others, or the color Taiwan is shown in maps, particularly in the background of talking heads, and what that does to your ability to broadcast in mainland China.
Maps are a reflection of might. The USA, aka America in some quarters, is still mighty. Some people will deem it wise to do as trump orders. Some will snub him on purpose.
Israel calls the northeastern arm of the Red Sea the Gulf of Eilat; the rest of the world calls it the Gulf of Aqaba. Eilat and Aqaba are both cities at the northern end of the gulf.
That’s where the magic of tariffs comes into play! After all, we don’t import anything important from Denmark, except checks notes ……something called Ozempic?
Forget Ozempic - a blockade on Lego would break the American public. Speaking as a parent, I can say that roughly 30% of total child care expenses consist of Lego purchases (for adults it’s about 20%).
Coincidentally, Lego bricks are also known to emergency-care staff as causing 30% of foot injuries among parents with small children.
What about bone spurs?
I only know of two people who use Ozempic: Trump and Musk.
Lego is building a factory in Virginia, and has one in Mexico.
Beyond that, Denmark’s ability to defend Greenland against the U.S. is questionable. A U.S. land grab in Greenland would not necessarily result in Denmark refusing to trade with the U.S.
And ruin Trumps plans for the Mexico border wall.
At his age, I can’t believe he’s planning 10 to 20 years ahead.
The rest of the World should start calling it The Trump Gulf of Ignorance.
A lot of people live into their 90’s, and some into their 100’s. And Trump may, on some level, think that he’s immortal; or that immortality will come along in time for him to buy it.
But then, I don’t think that at this point he’s planning at all. I think he’s just making noises. And he may not be any longer able clearly to think I’ll probably be dead before this plan works through enough to benefit me.
The ‘plan’ is immediate gratification. People are already falling over themselves on social media and on right wing news channels to say what a genius move it is.
It’s already succeeded. Laudatory noises achieved.
Whether anything else happens or not is a matter for later gratification, if any more can be squeezed from this particular topic.
I hope no one, outside the Head Idiot In Charge and his mini idiots, will ever refer to it as Gulf of America. The media/ world at large should ignore this and all his other harebrained ideas. It’s about as embarrassing as George Costanza trying to make everyone call him T-bone.
I don’t think it’s that specific, in terms of a rationalization of avoiding death. I think it’s simply that his overwhelming narcissism doesn’t allow him to imagine a world without him in it.
For being the right-wing version of the Onion, and typically not as amusing, this list is pretty funny.
Oh yes indeed, “America bad”! Such insight.
Speaking of making up names for things, the Weather Channel routinely assigns names which have no official validity to storms, yet people and news outlets follow like sheep and use those names (“Look out for Winter Storm Hubert!”).
(gets off soapbox)
Conceivably, the Trump administration can just refer to the “Gulf of America” in all its official pronouncements, while everyone else rolls their eyes and mocks.
They just keep telling him it will happen in two weeks.