Trump didn't change the US's officially recognized name of, say, the Atlantic Ocean or the continent of Africa. It's not like "Gulf of Mexico" was on a list of "debatable or controversial names" until he created this controversy out of thin air.
Trump didn't change the US's officially recognized name of, say, the Atlantic Ocean or the continent of Africa.
It's not like "Gulf of Mexico" was on a list of "debatable or controversial names" until he created this controversy out of thin air.
It's just the one name on the globe that a president of the United States can change to stick it to Mexico, a country Donald Trump has objectively racist feelings toward.
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Trump didn't change the US's officially recognized name of, say, the Atlantic Ocean or the continent of Africa. It's not like "Gulf of Mexico" was on a list of "debatable or controversial names" until he created this controversy out of thin air. It's just the one name on the globe that a president of the United States can change to stick it to Mexico, a country Donald Trump has objectively racist feelings toward.
The best politically realistic option they could have chosen would be (I'll use italics to emphasize that these are my own suggestions):
The motivation behind the name change is simple as well. Everywhere else in the world: "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". United States: "Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)".</...
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