None of these side projects of Donald Trump’s are unusual when you consider that the man believes that he is running the world, not just the United States. And that takes a gigantic amount of hubris, considering how the rest of the world (including his buddies in Russia) have lost no time expressing to him what low esteem they hold him in, with their open mockery. Neverthless, Trump is on a renaming roll and after he manages to swing the Gulf of America change, here’s what he intends to do and who he intends to piss off next.
The president is considering renaming the Persian Gulf the “Arabian Gulf,” mere days after his family announced billions of dollars in forthcoming real estate deals in the region.
Those plans include a Trump-branded golf course in Qatar (as part of a $5.5 billion development project), a $1 billion Trump hotel and residence in Dubai, and a $2 billion investment by an Abu Dhabi firm into one of Trump’s cryptocurrency projects, the World Liberty Financial Coin.
The family also revealed in December that they would be expanding their presence in Saudi Arabia, announcing Trump Tower Jeddah. The price tag for the building has not been made public, but one of the developers on the project, Dar Global, compared it to another $530 million Trump Tower in the city, reported Reuters. […]
The Persian Gulf has been the body’s predominant name since the sixteenth century, but its moniker has also been regionally contested by other countries in the Middle East, where it is mainly referred to as the “Gulf of Arabia” or “Arabian Gulf,” according to The Daily Beast.
Referring to the inlet as the Arabian Gulf hasn’t served Trump’s diplomatic relations well in the past. During one such instance in 2017, former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told the U.S. leader that he needed to “study geography.”
“Everyone knew Trump’s friendship was for sale to the highest bidder. We now know that his geography is, too,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote online at the time.
Leadership in Iran has never disguised the fact that they believe Trump to be a laughingstock. However America may differ from the mad theocracy in power over there, at least we are unified in that view. The half of America that sees clearly sees Trump for the fool that he is. And the rest of the world sees it clearly as well. In Trump 2.0 we have alienated staunch allies and made an alignment with a tinpot dictator in El Salvador. That’s Trump’s foreign relations coup so far. Water finds its own level.
