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41 sats \ 24 replies \ @Cje95 OP 7 Jan \ parent \ on: Trump Muses Over Renaming Gulf of Mexico ‘Gulf of America’ Politics_And_Law
I mean I do think this is something he could easily do and why not I mean the name came from the Spanish when they had the entire area around the Gulf under their power so now that it isn't ehhh
No doubt he can do it. The question is why? His motive will be seen as a xenophobic, US first move which will do nothing to dispel the perception worldwide that the US is an imperialist bully.
And for what purpose? What is to be gained?
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I mean honestly the first move is going to be the Jan 6 pardons.... that already is as set in stone as stone itself.
I hate to say it but easily what +50% of things he is going to do people will decry as xenophobic when its just putting America first after 4 years of us looking like idiots. I am not sold on it being imperialistic since at the end of the day its literally the third coast its not like we are trying to rename some part of the Pacific.
Mexico is free to call it whatever they want to as well. We can rename it for our stuff they can call it the Gulf of Mexico that type of stuff happens all across the world and wouldn't be anything new. People in the border states are not Mexico fans. Trump and the Republican Party did fantastic along the border regions and in races that they lost made them a lot closer than expected.
Trump made a comment today that sent some people into a tailspin about Mexico being run by cartels. Well remember when they arrested El Chapos sons and then they had to release them after the government was kicked out of towns because of it? They, the Mexican Government, do not have a solid grasp on huge swaths of their own country the cartels do.
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No question Biden was a disaster, and I'm confident Trump will be better for the US than Harris would have been. I just don't think it makes sense from a cost/benefit analysis to run his mouth about meaningless issues.
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Regardless this is Trump as you said. I expect nothing less.
I do kinda love it for this reason. It exposes the messed up priorities of people. Trump offends mostly because he doesn't care about their sacred traditions or doing things the way they have been done. He's an embarrassment. They will talk more about WORDS he says than the blood shed by other presidents. They get more angry at him for these trivial things than they do about the killing of people in wars, the destruction of wealth, or the outright graft of politicians.
It exposes the fact that the state is an idol that many people worship and they hate him because he is the turd in the punch bowl. He profanes their sacred institutions. Its also why they hated J6 so much. The fact that so many now wish we had W Bush instead of Trump says it all. I don't like either of them but one of these is not like the other.
The view of politicians and the positions they hold NEEDS to be brought down to the joke it is in reality. The reverence of these offices is disgusting to me. Its a religion in everything but name.
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They will talk more about WORDS he says than the blood shed by other presidents. They get more angry at him for these trivial things than they do about the killing of people in wars, the destruction of wealth, or the outright graft of politicians.
This is very true.
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And I honestly think the media and elite class does more damage to itself by obsessing over his words than Trump does damage to himself.
I agree that Trump running his mouth is not helpful, but the elites obsessing over it is worse for them than it is for Trump.
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I don't know. Maybe I just find the guy to be such an asshole. As a New Yorker, he's been in the spotlight since the 1970s, I think. As a defense lawyer, the crap he pulled with the Central Park jogger case was really bad. I also have trouble getting past his almost instant covid lockdowns and embracing Fauci and the vaccine.
Still, I'm glad he beat Kamala.
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A little tid bit on this that makes you burst out laughing is Trump alone is responsible for the vaccine being created as fast as it was and alllllll the Dems including Kamala talked about how they "would never take a Trump vaccine" then they did and rammed it down everyone's throats.
I think that in COVID it showed how he wasn't a politician and it was a clear sign of where he lacked anyone he knew about diseases and stuff of this magnitude. Economy, foreign relations, etc. you can use a business mindset and do well but a disease spreading like COVID did... yeah it doesn't work then.
Makes sense. My dad was working in New York in the 80s. And he absolutely hates Trump, and says Trump represents everything bad about America.
I don't disagree, honestly. But look at what the Democrat Party has become... I truly think Trump is going to be better for the country than Kamala, and would've been better for a second term than Biden.
Personally, I would've preferred to see a DeSantis / Andrew Yang faceoff.
Yeah I am hopeful that with having a trifecta and more importantly this time around not having Trump skeptics in the Republican Party that we can really address some of the key points.
Case in port the Laken Riley Act is going to be voted on by The House today. Now I think the Senate will hold off until President Trump takes office because I think Biden would be the one who would sign off on this piece of common sense legislation but it will be one of the first things sent to Trump's desk.
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