Trump says he asked Google Maps to rename Atlantic Ocean
"I said, 'Sundar, I'm thinking of the Atlantic Ocean. Can you handle it?'
"'No, no, no, this time I'm not doing it,' he said, 'Oceans are different, sir. They cover a lot of - really a lot of countries. Please don't ask us to do that.'"
The US president later said he would "probably pass" and keep the name Atlantic, before saying, "We're going to call it the American Ocean".
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Wow, they didn't bend the knee this time, surprising. Fascist bootlickers. From now on, I am calling Murica "South Canada" or "North Mexico".
The correct term is América Mexicana, or Mexican America
epstein file reaction ocean. and the gulf of GHislaine.
"Sir".
Totally unrelated: toddlers test adults boundaries. Once the adult give up on a boundary, that is a given and they would put a tantrum if they don’t keep in getting their way.
What it’s worse is that they will move to the next boundary and repeat the same.
In general I would say for toddler is better to set clear and firm boundaries so that a lot of tantrum and screaming are saved.
But what was the article about, again?
“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same. The temperament is not that different.” ― Donald Trump
let's make a deal, any body of water he drowns in, we'll name it after him
The Donald J. Trump Reflecting Pool.
The Donald J. Trump White House hallway toilet.
The Donald J. Trump hole 7 water hazard at Mar a Lago
I don't suppose the WH runs on a septic system? failing that the nastiest pit of water is probably the sump.
omg! Donald J. Sump!
I love it.
hey, for all the secret service agents reading this.... you could do the funniest thing.
To all the secret service agents reading this... just take one for the team.
I mean, no one would be surprised if he just waddled in.
Any body of water named Trump better have a handle to flush.
Oh don't worry. Sooner or later Trump will have a public toilet with his name on it, like the Thatcher one
Both toilets in our house will have plaques.
What else are 3D printers for?
The Donald J. Trump golden toilet.
As long as it's fake gold, suits the doofus better
I mean it fits, since an actual toddler can also drown in water that shallow.
Australian here.
We just named a memorial pool after our leader when it happened to us.
Not just the pool. We also named a Naval Comms Station after him.
Never been sure whether this combo of memorials was down to our culture's perverse sense of humour, or just pragmatic future-proofing.
Please do it...rename the sun.
The stellar body or the conservative rag?
Hopefully the rag. Then I can use America to clean up some shit
I'd be ok with either.
Whichever is funnier.
I thought the former was part of the latter - found on the third page, perhaps
Only India has an Ocean. I bet Trump can't sleep on this.
Antarctica also has one, showing even ice cubes have more oceans than America does lol.
Holy shit. Is that what this is about?
Personally, I think not. I think he's just trolling and rage baiting with the name changes. Also some distracting.
But that doesn't mean he's immune to counter trolling. Not that I think Lemmy is even on his radar, so it's more imaginary counter trolling.
There's this, lusting over Republican candidate asses, and bragging about finding a giraffe in a kid's drawing.
Flexing on the world, for no gain, does show how cowardly and sycophantic that world is and continues to be. It's still late stage empire behaviour and collapse acceleration.
He's like a young child who's just discovered a new word and is using it everywhere. (apologies to any children; no offense intended)
As a parent of a 3yo in his "no" phase, this is accurate
Also... send help, im exhausted
You survived the "why?" phase - you got this.
Hang in there.
Me too.
This is my second time around but his sister is much older and was muuuuuch easier lol
We'll get through this 🤝
Just wait until they're teenagers. You're all fucked, HAH!
Oldest is almost done with high school and has been a saint, zero trouble at all
Im so fucked when this toddler hits puberty
Me three.
We're all in this together. My youngest is 20 months and is already worse than my eldest was as a threenager. The twos look like they're going to be terrible.
It's like a fucking fungus, it keeps spreading every time he spews spores out of his decomposing mouth
It's a cancer on society
Ah! the Eastern American Ocean.
And next will be the Western American Ocean.
Followed by the North American Ocean
All americans, listen. I can not stress this enough but your presidunce is one of the dumbest pieces of meat based scum that's ever lived AND you are all being judged by what that wobbling orange obese child rapist's actions.
And will be for at least a generation.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! The only way you will ever, ever claw back any respect is if you kill or forcibly remove that fucking disgusting shitgoblin. FUCK!
Dude, this isn't the movies. Going against the strongest military in the world isn't an option.
It's yet to be seen which side the military will fall on. That's what's going to matter.
It's hard to say. I never thought in a million years so many republicans of all levels, would bend the knee so fast.
I remember GHW Bush's campaign co-opting "family values". In hindsight, this has been a long time coming.
Found the federal agent
lmao, I don't think so. I created this:
So what you’re saying is you’re part of the problem.
? You're going to have to explain.
If I thought you would listen, I would. But we have talked before, and we disagree on most things.
Well, could you at least explain for the rest of us that have no idea what you're talking about?
🤣 👍
Both of em!
The departments really need to coordinate. Are they trying to get him killed or trying to overthrow the country. Or both!
Just wait until the CIA finds out that the USA isn't democratic.
It's got to the point that I'm just hoping the rest of the world loses enough respect to finally tell America to get fucked. Letting them do pretty much whatever they want since the end of WWII has been a disaster.
You might have heard of "the Marshall plan". It was not too bad
Don't get the server subpoenaed.
Found the federal agent.
Why do you keep accusing random people of being federal agents? It's pathetic.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Low effort trolling is so obvious. But, I guess... as long as you're having fun you should continue.
Thanks for your approval. 😘
Americans don’t do conflict anymore. I mean, themselves… they are fine with ICE and bombing Iran.
Why do I have to be trapped in this dimension? This one is just so damn stupid...
I mean, just say "yessir" and give him a
fisher pricemap with the name changed on it.Let the orange toddler have his toys.
Oh god, i hope he renames more things, so americans have their antiquated mesurement system, and a modernized geography system that no one uses except them.
They appeased him before, so he keeps asking for more.
at this rate the dicks gunna wanna rename the fucking moon
Sssh, he still doesn't know that the moon isn't just the sun at night.
So what? He'd rename the sun instead
"If you look closely, sir, you can see we have already written 'America' on The Sun."
"Ow, my eyes hurt."
"Sir, everyone says you're the best, tremendous, at starting at The Sun. Keep going."
Exactly what I was thinking of.
Orange man, you fucking toddler.
Can we rename Trump "Shame of America"?
I've just been calling him Rump.
I'm not happy until I can call him 'former president'.
You can call him that as he was voted out (at one stage, then you fucks let him back in)
Where I live, prices convert to 7.42 per gallon
What an idiot, the Pacific is obviosly the superior ocean.
The specific ocean?
So true, and it's name should be the Super American Ocean!
American Ocean (Left)
Well, he didn’t rename Lake Superior; he’ll probably call the Pacific “Superior Ocean” and miss the fact that this means the one bit will be America and the other bit Superior.
Canada should agree to name a Great Lake after Trump, and invite him to a big, gaudy ceremony to rename it to "Lake Inferior".
I suggest it not be a great lake; we can tell him to make it great.
I’ve got the perfect suggestion for “Lake Inferior” - it’s a currently unnamed lake below the Crypt Lake trail in Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta.
The century of humiliation has commenced and it was self inflicted.
I'm renaming The United States of America to Idiot America.
The Ulcered Sphincter of Arse-erica.
To start with, the naming of America is an embarrassment.
Vespucci's legacy is better than being named after Columbus, who sucked a great deal.
"Better" is a strong term for a slave-owning colonizer. "Less awful" is more accurate
AFAIK Columbus was awful, even accounting for the people of his time. I don't know anything about Vespucci though.
Right, as long as it isn't a native name, I guess.
America isn't named after Columbus. A German cartographer in the 1500 named America as such to honer Amerigo Vespucci who originally "discovered" the new world. So it kind of is Vespucci's legacy that named it ?
Isn't that what I wrote?
I must have misinterpreted your comment as meaning that America is named after Columbus rather than Amerigo, bear with me I have yet to drink my coffee this morning...
Bonespurs gets cranky if his afternoon Diet Coke isn't chilled enough.
At least he gets the naming right. The South Park writers would have named it Atlantic America
Aww. They deserve each other!
A map can have different names for the same thing depending on the country. Like baltic sea is "Ostsee" in german. Or the Atlantic sea is Atlantischer Ozean. This would really only be a translation entry.
Then it would be a geographical name change across dialects/variants of the same language. Also, most people who aren't from Canada, UK or Australia choose "English (US)" because it's usually the first option. Most people don't think this far but also because the writing shortenings ("colour" > "color") make labels slightly smaller and are easier to type.
Europe teaches UK english in schools explicitly. But yes, US english should become a dialect. Or we find some middleground and create international english.
No, it wouldn't.