Let’s do something fun here. Trump is talking to himself again at a press conference. Well, he’s supposedly talking to the press, but we all know it’s to himself because it’s about him. Does he talk to himself in his sleep, too? On second thought, wait, not something we need (or want) to know. With many giggles and thanks to Raw Story:
President Donald Trump floated the idea of renaming the former Gulf of Mexico after himself. While recounting the victories of the first year of his second term, Trump recalled renaming the body of water the “Gulf of America.” “Gulf of Mexico and now it’s the Gulf of America,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “Because we have 92% of the shoreline. It always bothered me and say, you know, we have most of the shoreline. Mexico has a small percentage, talks about 8%. We have 92%. And I said, why is it the Gulf of Mexico? It should be the Gulf of America.”
Victories of his first year? What huh? Not much he could actually call victories. Driving the country into a depression? Making the entire world laugh at us? Kissing Pootie’s … ass? Oh, the Big Ugly Bill, except he called it beautiful. Don’t forget the giant plane as a gift. Or everything he’s done to enrich (grift for) himself while tanking everyone else? Crypto comes to mind. And yay, here we go again with the Gulf of America. The only ones who call it that are Trump, KKKaroline, and Petey Boy. But my memory of Petey Boy could be faulty.
“I was going to call it the Gulf of Trump,” he continued. “But I thought that I would be killed if I did that. I wanted to do it. I wanted to. My people worked so hard. Sir, don’t think it’ll look too good.” Trump insisted that the Gulf would be “hotter than ever” if it had been named after him.
Last I knew, a hotter Gulf meant worse hurricanes. Oh, wait, Krispi Noem said he kept the hurricanes away. It’s *cough* not a concern, then. There are a LOT of creatures in the sea that do NOT need it to be hotter. No idea how much it would do to global warming, which Trump doesn’t believe in anyhow. Also, *cough* *cough* my people worked so hard. Okay, Grampa.
“I’m joking, you know, when I say that,” he added. “I was not going to call it the Gulf of Trump. Because tomorrow I’ll be, Trump wanted to call it the Gulf of Trump, but he was rebuffed by his people. My people don’t rebuff me too much.” “The Gulf of Trump, that does have a good ring, though. Maybe we could do that. It’s not too late.”
Insert *eyerolling* and *facepalming* and *headdesking* here. Gulf of Trump, the ultimate vanity project. The world would laugh even harder, while we would have a field day of snark. Possibly multiple days, depending on how busy the smarter people here are. Lawd have mercy on us. And by the way, am I off my game or something?
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Drumpf, as is typical, is talking out of his fat behind (or flat out lying) about the shoreline or coastline. Sources differ but the US and Mexico each have between 40 and 45% of the Gulf’s waterfront (Cuba has about 5% and the rest is open water–between the Straits of Florida and the Yucatan Channel).
Well, now, IU did not know that. Thank you for the information!
More pertinently, it’s been The Gulf Of Mexico for longer than there has been a United States Of America.
It was named first- way back even before Mexico owned the southern states of California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, and the parts of Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming which were ceded to the USA in 1848 following the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the 1836 Texas Revolution. And, of course, in those days before 1848 it really was bounded by Mexico all the way around that coast.
Not that Dementia Donny knows that, even though it’s the actual historical record.
Haha, oops, didn’t know this either! I feel uneducated. Well, I was but now I’m not.