That vote was because nobody wanted to perform there and nobody was buying tickets because he slapped his name on it, fired the real board, and appointed himself chair. That killed it. The “we need to close it” was to avoid the embarrassment that everyone hated him taking control of it. “Those grapes were probably sour anyway” essentially.
Whatever happened with the Gulf of Mexico? Is anyone actually calling it the Gulf of America these days, or did people just ignore the stupidity after the initial furore?
Of all the things to promptly reverse once a future Democratic president takes office, these idiotic renamings would seem to be among the easiest.
It changed on Google Maps.
A Canadian friend sent me a screenshot from a blog called Life in Canada. It’s a border map with Lake Erie relabeled as Lake Trumpsatwat.
I’ll admit it made me laugh out loud.
Only on the American site. The civilized world does not recognize an order from the Moron-in-chief.
Ahem.
Good point…I should have clarified this.
It hasn’t changed on Wikipedia, at least. And per their entry for the Gulf of Mexico:
The American public also overwhelmingly opposes Trump’s trade war against Canada, and surely will not support this name change either.
They haven’t caved on Lake Ontario… yet.
We have too many threads about Chieftain Ineptstein the Orange Stain with No Brain, we had a brief discussion on Lake CIOSNB in the invading Panama and Greeland thread:
Naturally, it’s used by default among US oil and gas companies, at least in-country. They certainly aren’t using the naming in their offices in Mexico.
So, yes, it’s widely used. But many people end up forgetting regularly. I have, so far, not used that naming once at work.
For example, the use of Persian vs Arabian Gulf is something companies have to be very careful about. So, this isn’t a new thing but it is a particularly dumb example of it. It was never controversial to call it the Gulf of Mexico in the US ever.
On my bike commute to work, I pass a house that has a gigantic “Gulf of America” flag out front. I can safely assume the house is occupied by maroons.
Please tell me that you live somewhere near the gulf. I mean, it’s still a moronic thing to do, but if you live in, say, Ohio, that’s extra levels of delusion.
Oh, OH!! I know this one!!
Idaho!!
Don’t you mean the Gulf of Trump?
That’s what I said, yes
done with being nice
We could make this a game. Which executive order renaming things do you think Trump will sign next?
- Changing Lake Superior to Lake Trump
- Changing Mt. Ranier to Mt. Trump
- Changing the White House to the Trump House
- Changing Washington D.C. to Trump D.C.
- Changing Florida to Trumpland
- Changing the United States of America to the United States of Trump
You mean the Trumpnited Trumps of Atrumpitrump.
“North Carolina is great. I won at golf three times.”
Shouldn’t that lake’s name have TYFYATTM at the end?