Trump can’t stop changing the name of things and now has US state as his target

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-name-change-state-mexico-b3045594.html

Trump wants to relabel New Mexico as New America days after changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake Ameria

Donald Trump has already changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, and now he’s targeting a US state for a rebrand.

Trump is spending the holiday weekend dreaming up his next demand to relabel America’s geography. He posted a map on Truth Social Sunday afternoon of New Mexico, but the word Mexico was crossed out and replaced with America.

Relabeling the southwestern state on the U.S.-Mexico border as New America is reminiscent of an executive order he signed early in his second term, in which he changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

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NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 174 pts · 3d (25 replies)

I'm writing this from the future, October 2028, from my desk on America St., America, in America County, capital of the state America, in the America-West region of America, to issue a warning...

AnalogAllamma@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 3d (13 replies)

Wait till he realizes there's places called South and Central America.

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 2d (6 replies)

Well obviously, he’s supreme ruler of those too!

Seems like America is becoming the new Taco Bell.

AnalogAllamma@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2d

Honestly Taco Bell is one of America's best institutions.

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 9 pts · 2d (1 reply)

After the franchise wars... all restaurants are TacoBell.

BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

AmericaBell and McAmerica?

RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2d (2 replies)

Taco Supreme Ruler

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Demolition Man was a prophecy!

Ring the TACO bell!

BillyClark@piefed.social · 11 pts · 2d (3 replies)

What if he learns that America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian who couldn't ever have been a US citizen because he died over 250 years before the USA even existed.

Rinox@feddit.it · 7 pts · 2d (1 reply)

He'll rewrite history. Now it will be named after Tim America, the first American

stephen01king@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 2d

You know he's gonna name the guy America Trump, his great great grandfather.

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

Fake olds

MunkyNutts@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

Those will soon be changed to South and Central Mexico. Can't besmirch the America^TM^ brand on shithole countries.

radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
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YouTalkinToMe@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Aladeen St., Aladeen, in Aladeen County, Capital of the State Aladeen, in the Aladeen-West region of Aladeen.

13igTyme@piefed.social · 3 pts · 2d

"We got your test results back. You're Aladeen."

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3d (2 replies)

Is it still called Earth?

chtk@feddit.nl · 19 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Actually no. We are now America-3 in the America System.

dsilverz@catodon.rocks · 2 pts · 2d

...in the "MAGA Way" Galaxy, about to merge with Androamerica to form the new America Galaxy, all part of the Laniamerica Supercluster...

(Spaceballs? Oh, shit, there goes the planet)

!news@lemmy.world

rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 2d (4 replies)

What's gas prices like?

NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Are you talking about America fuel?

thenoirwolfess@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 2d

Fun fact: Petrol is a leftover term from a brand of gasoline. It's the same product. Like 'Hoover' to 'vacuum cleaner'.

daychilde@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d

America per gallon :(

joyjoy@piefed.social · 1 pts · 2d

All time high

RustyLog@fedinsfw.app · 4 pts · 2d

I have an idea for a "funny" thing.

  1. Buy a domain called EverythingAmerica.whatever
  2. Run an instance of Open streetmap (or similar)
  3. Rename everything "America".
  4. Giggle and barf
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 101 pts · 3d (5 replies)

I dont know if I could roll my eyes any harder.

oldscratchXV@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2d (1 reply)

If only Trump's head would roll.

BlindPenguin@piefed.social · 4 pts · 2d

I'm sure France has some tools available for rent. Just needs some rust remover.

A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 3d (2 replies)

I think the same thing every week and I dont think my eyes can take it anymore

Harvey656@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Doubt Trump will pay for my eye doctor bills after all this.

A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

They should throw in a class action lawsuit for that while hes being tried for crimes against humanity

"If your life was disrupted by the defendant's blatant manipulation of the news cycle you may be eligible for compensation"

BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 2d (10 replies)

jesus fucking christ i cannot wait until he finally fucking dies.

Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 2d (2 replies)

Ahhh, the democrats only strategy

BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Oh man you're so fucking edgy and clever. Where can i read your newsletter?

Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 2d

... did you just snark me?

Im fucking crying right now.

wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Along with all his shit for brains supporters.

Ironfist79@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

Good news. Boomers die at the rate of one every 14.2 seconds.

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2d (4 replies)

Yeah, because lake Vance and New Vance sound so much better.

Etterra@discuss.online · 5 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Nobody respects that little turd, especially MAGA. They won't do Jack shit for anyone that he's not ordered to by the GOP.

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2d

No one respects that turd, yet he's currently vice president. The way it is currently going it doesn't look like there is much democracy left so if he wants to take power and hold on to it, he probably can. As long as he keeps the oligarchs happy. And he was put there by one of the most influential one, so even if some are not happy with JD Turd, Thiel will make sure they will step in line. This is how a dictatorial regime works. It is how Russia, North Korea and Turkmenistan are being run, among other dictatorships.

CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d (1 reply)

How long did the nazi party in germany last after hitler alt-F4'ed himself?

How about Marshall Applewhite, is his cult still going strong?

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 1d

This is not the same as nazi Germany. It's bad, the net fascist age, but not exactly the same.

ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 2d (2 replies)

Holy Shit! I have been saying he was going to rename New Mexico as New America as a joke! I can't believe he actually IS that insane.

Carl@anarchist.nexus · 3 pts · 2d

Yeah, this would be a great headline for one of the various Not The Onion communities, except I’m pretty sure they have banned political posts.

RodersTrotters@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

Wait, so Washington DC will become......

Tango@piefed.ca · 58 pts · 2d (6 replies)

I'm considering renaming the United States of America to Cringetopia

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Oligarchia would be more on the nose.

3abas@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2d

Pedophilia.

Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Absurdistan is already there

Tango@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 2d

Nah, that's no good; I like a little absurdism.

kalkulat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

It may be that the next targets will be words in the American language.

BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

American States of America

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 54 pts · 3d (2 replies)

Fuck Donald Trump

BooBees@fedinsfw.app · 12 pts · 2d

That’s what we’ll rename Oklahoma when he’s gone.

thenoirwolfess@fedinsfw.app · 2 pts · 2d

Hearing this blast out of car speakers during the LA protests was a treat, and learning that a version was recorded with Macklemore was the cherry on top

lemmyng@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Send grandpa to bed. Permanently.

cdf12345@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 2d

For a nice long dirt nap.

Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 47 pts · 2d (9 replies)

I think his obsession with renaming things is so he can have his "legacy" where people a hundred years from now will read in school how the gulf of america used to be called gulf of Mexico until Donald J Trump renamed it.

This way he can do it immediately and without any approvals or permissions from anyone else and it doesn't cost a dime (upfront that he needs permission for, it still costs millions to remake maps and public education posters/billboards and school textbooks and government websites, etc.)

He just doesn't have the foresight to recognize that whatever president comes next will just revert all changes.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2d (6 replies)

He doesn't care. He's trying to tank the US in every way possible so that he and his billionaire friends can buy it up in a fire sale, and create 13-15 tech dominated duchies/kingdoms that own all the people in their borders. That's why they only want a total of 150,000,000 people alive by the end of 2028. They think their robots will be able to control us, not realizing that they don't work, won't work, and we can create portable EMP devices.

echodot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 2d (4 replies)

They also tend to fall over on their own so I can't imagine they'll be particularly good combat units.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Maybe they are counting on enough low paid workers to survive in SEA so that their "robots" can be effectively long distance battle mechs.

echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 2d

I suppose if we have to have disutopian fascist dictators we must at least be thankful that they are very stupid. They seem to be planning for the end goal without any real idea of how they're going to get there.

They also seem to have forgotten that the rest of the planet exists, and might take a dim view of mass genocide elste the idea spreads.

Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Some of the stuff coming out of China is pretty impressive. But yeah, I'm pretty sure you could trip one up without much trouble.

echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2d

I'm not dismissing the idea that, at some point, in the future, they might have military combat robots, but in the immediate term the threat from AI will come from economic damage not from terminators.

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d

Also I severely doubt they would be able to maintain jack for shit, id probably give it a five year average before they would lose control for one reason or another not accounting for failed infrastructure and natural disaster. Those that could survive would probably start having issues with viking/ horseman raids along the borders of their territory, think the more raid happy Nomad clans from Cyberpunk. Frankly as a descendent of bandits I'm kinda surprised we haven't seen a proper resurgence yet in places like Idaho and New Mexico.

Nalivai@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d (1 reply)

There is a possibility that the next president is donald trump again, and then again.

spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d

And when he dies, they'll use AI to instill him as king forever. "We put his consciousness in a box" they'll say. All the while, his handler's and their family secure control indefinitely.

HejMedDig@feddit.dk · 41 pts · 3d (5 replies)

Wait until he finds out about New York, New England, New Hampshire or even better, New Lebanon, Ohio or New Palestine, Indiana

NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3d

There is clearly a vengeful god at work since at least 2015, and you are giving them ideas.

adarza@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2d (2 replies)

little canada, minnesota.

queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2d

oh, now that would be pretty cute.

HejMedDig@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 2d

Huge America, Minnesota!

Ravenheart@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2d

But Mexico is where brown people come from. And that's what he hates.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 2d (1 reply)

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d

Honestly more tasteful than anything Trump could create.

Akuchimoya@startrek.website · 38 pts · 2d (4 replies)

We have reached the point where I genuinely cannot tell reality from satire.
"Is this real? Am I eating the onion?"
I don't even know anymore.

Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Yes it is real. All of the tech bros follow Curtis Yarvin's philosophy. He is another lord of the rings tech bro that calls himself a "high elf" and all of us hobbits.

Peter thiel and company are all in a group you can lookup with more info called the "nerd reich". Peter Thiel is also in the Epstein files stating that "buying things at 1% interest is too much"

Independent journalists and major news organizations have all reported on this. Search the names and nerd reich and you will see.

They all need to go, NOW

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d

I'm halfway through The Nerd Reich and I already knew a lot of these characters and what they were up to, and even I am finding it sickening.

Curtis Yarvin is such a little weirdo. The Democrats need to get back to calling all of the right wing weird. Because they fucking are.

You have the pedo-in-chief being defended over his role in the Epstein Files. You have Thiel behind the throne on "JD" "Vance". You have Yarvin whispering to people like Thiel and Thiel stroking off to a shitty knock-off of an already terrible book - The Sovereign Individual.

You have Elon being given "DOGE" so they could destroy America and save us....nothing - while killing probably millions of children by cutting US AID. You have a day drinker known for being on Faux News now running a war on Iran that we didn't need and no one asked for.

You have a little shitstain like Stephen Miller - angry at brown people since his teens - running immigration policy.

Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2d

Ai was invented 20 years ago. Theyve been running simulations for years to craft the trump presidency and collapse the United States. Hes just the ends to someone else's means.

At least thats what I postulate.

OriginalTangle@feddit.org · 2 pts · 2d

It really is shocking what they've done to our taste buds.

BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2d (1 reply)

So, if the USA is so great, then why did they make USB?

Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1d

Goddammit, you beautiful genius!

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2d (3 replies)

Those who accuse someone of having Trump derangement syndrome should be called pedophile defenders.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 2d (1 reply)

You know another name for a Pedophile Defender?

Pedophile.

Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d

If there is a Nazi sitting at a dinner table and the other 9 people aren't actively beating the absolute shit of them then there are 10 Nazis having dinner together

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d

Trump derangement syndrome

Remember, there were conservatives that claim to actually be adults, in office, that advocated for making that a real mental illness, Soviet style.

Meanwhile, I don't think I've ever seen any example of someone with any of this "derangement". It's just people that point out tiny-d donnie's terrible qualities.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-derangement-syndrome-minnesota-bill-republicans-b2717145.html

tonytins@pawb.social · 32 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Also, the US: "the UN should spend their time doing other things than worrying about maps."

MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d

Maybe he thought the new map would by default invalidate anything he's renamed so far (even though his name changes have only taken hold inside the US itself anyway)

AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2d (1 reply)

He should change the name of the "United States of America" to the "American Americas of America"

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 2d

That "of" sounds pretty woke and has got to go. Lol I can't believe I just typed that.

takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 1d

Oh and how about the gas prices soaring due to shortages, because he fucked up in Iran when thinking that would be another distraction?

im_fine_sandy@nord.pub · 30 pts · 2d (4 replies)

I posted this somewhere last week but it's just as relevant here:

I listened to this podcast recently:

Well, so we know we went and saw him in the middle of the war. I mean, early stages of the war, very intense period of the war, about two weeks and a bit into the war with Iran. And he the thing he first thing he wanted us to see, he was holding up photographs of maple trees. And he's saying, you know, I'm buying these maple trees for the White House. Turns out I'm good at buying trees. And then underneath it were photographs of the ballroom and the columns. He wanted us to know the columns are, I think, bigger than the Supreme Court's columns or more of them or what have you. And one side was inspired by Athens and the other side by Rome. This occupied probably first 15 minutes of our time with him before we got to anything to do with the Iran war.

and earlier ...

It's truly an inordinate amount of his time is spent redecoration, renovation, the ballroom, but also building monuments and naming things after himself. It's become an obsession. And we have a scene in the book, actually, in the Oval Office last October where he he's talking to a couple of visitors about he wants to build essentially a replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Washington, which they call internally the Arc de Trump. You know, he's got different models of it. There's a huge one, a middle one, a small one. You know, he wants it to be bigger than the Lincoln Memorial. Anyway, he's in the room with some of his agents. He says, let's call Emmanuel. Let's call Emmanuel. Ask because he had some questions he wanted to know about the Arc de Triomphe, which presumably he could have just Googled. [...] But instead, he gets Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, on the speakerphone. And he starts asking Emmanuel, you know, does your arch have a viewing platform? Do people jump off it? You know, all this. How big is the arch? You know, all these sort of questions about the arch. So I just there's no way that I can overstate how much time is spent on these matters.

(emphasis added)

That last sentence has really stuck with me.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2d (2 replies)

This is the guy that the American people voted for. Twice.

IronBird@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d

dumb as fuck and completely sure of his own superiority, a perfect representation of a large chunk of the US rich and poor alike

Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2d

Actually three times.

daychilde@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

I'm not surprised, but I am still horrified.

Nobody@anarchist.nexus · 28 pts · 2d (4 replies)

Renaming bodies of water is incredibly stupid, but the names were arbitrary to begin with and probably not legally binding.

States have their own sovereignty, constitutions, and laws. You can’t overcome that with an executive order. You shouldn’t be able to overcome that with an act of Congress signed by the president.

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2d

Lake Ontario at least wasnt entirely arbitrary. It was named that way because of the first nations people's who lived there and called it that.

drcobaltjedi@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2d

Ontario canes from the Huron language meaning "Great Lake". Actually 3 of the lake names basic ally translate to "Large/Great Lake"

WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2d

Remind me, how many things have Americans allowed him to do that he “shouldn’t be able to do”?

matlag@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d

Yeah, but that was under the constitution of the United States of America. They no longer exist. Now they're the United States under Trump, by decree. Gotchaaaa!

And don't bother answering. There's another decree under way claiming you're wong!!

FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 27 pts · 2d (3 replies)

He is the dog that finally caught the car. He never knew why he chased it, just that there was a need within him to chase it. And because he expended so much effort into chasing the car he now needs to demonstrate to all the other dogs that he totally knew what he was doing the whole time and even more totally knows what a car is and what to do with it.

This is why he doesn't actually do anything truly "presidential." His idea of being president is the same as when my kid was 8 and said "if I'm ever president, I'm gonna..." and then some cute but completely totalitarian nonsense comes out their mouth. Just as he's the poor man's idea of a rich man, he's a child's idea of the president.

Phantom_Feline17@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2d

And the sad part is that there are still people who worships him and in their eyes can do no wrong.

story@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d

we are so cooked as a people when a competent president comes in, it'll be Obama all over again but worse, maybe 10 years before we get a snowden situation revealing all the secrets

VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2d

Like Megamind if he never had the hero arc

Kirp123@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 3d (3 replies)

Someone made a joke about this when the Lake Ontario shit was happening. Now their joke is becoming reality.

DmMacniel@feddit.org · 12 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Can we joke about deteriorating health of the orange man? Man would that be funny.

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d

I mean, have you seen him? It's deteriorating, it's just going slowly.

saltesc@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d

He can sign whatever he wants. It doesn't do anything unless you're the small few stuck inside US borders. In the real world, the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario obviously haven't had their names changed. Executive orders from some random country mean fuck all.

Leviathan@fedinsfw.app · 20 pts · 2d (4 replies)

Just to be clear, he hasn't renamed shit. No one is actually gonna follow these bullshit renames after he's dead or out of office. People in every other country and half of your own won't and anyone who does is gonna be a laughing stock. Fucking moronic shit the media spends time legitimizing.

CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d (3 replies)

Im going to continute to deadname the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, all my trans homies are doing it.

Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1d

They're not deadnames. Its called ignoring malicious labels.

Ironfist79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d (1 reply)

It's not dead naming. We're not talking about sentient bodies of water here.

CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

Cool I don't care.

Jerb322@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2d (2 replies)

He's got to know all of these will be changed back when he fucking finally dies, right? Right?

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d (1 reply)

He doesn't care. He's trying to tank the US in every way possible so that he and his billionaire friends can buy it up in a fire sale, and create 13-15 tech dominated duchies/kingdoms that own all the people in their borders. That's why they only want a total of 150,000,000 people alive by the end of 2028. They think their robots will be able to control us, not realizing that they don't work, won't work, and we can create portable EMP devices.

BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

By alive is meant mass deportation or other mass action?

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2d (1 reply)

When will he rename "pedophilic disorder" to "American disorder"?

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2d

The onion made this joke

ccunning@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3d (1 reply)

People keep giving him the attention and outrage he’s after. And he loves scribbling his name of shit.

Of course he’s going to keep doing it

blitzen@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2d

Yes, one thousand times this! I obviously don't condone what he's doing, but at the same time we should not give it any brain space. Release the Epstein files.

HubertManne@piefed.social · 16 pts · 2d (2 replies)

None of these things change the name. they direct the federal government to use that name but in the case of a state he might actually have stumbled onto something that is unconcstitutional.

daychilde@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

unconcstitutional

That spelling is unconcstitutional ;-)

Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1d

That spelling is unconcstitutional ;-)

Not to mention being anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious.

Hylactor@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 3d (1 reply)

I find it slightly ironic that "America" is derived from Amerigo, as in Amerigo Vespucci, a in an Italian. As in, someone not from America. But then again, roughly 96% of us aren't "from here". Anti immigration perhaps, but not anti conquest somehow.

BillyClark@piefed.social · 4 pts · 2d

I personally wouldn't mind if we renamed "America" to "Dollywood."

cinoreus@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Oh yeah, US midterms are coming. Finally realised what's driving this guys maniac episode.

fisco@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 2d (2 replies)

He should be in a fecking straight jacket...

EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2d (1 reply)

And strapped into a guillotine

fisco@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1d

That too..😅

SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2d (2 replies)

Everything is Aladeen

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

Your comment made me Aladeen

Sixseven@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d

Is the the Aladeen news or the Aladeen news?

Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 2d (3 replies)

What other shitty thing(s) is his administration doing that needs burying in the news cycle?

3abas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d (2 replies)

He restarted the war with Iran and bombed a wedding. Which backfired and Iran is tightening traffic in the Hormuz strait further. Israel is ramping up rhetoric to attack Qatar, a key ally of the US and host to the largest US military base in the region.

Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Sooo time to start posting articles about these

3abas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d

They're there, they just don't get the same attention as stupid stunts like a new coin or renaming places.

generator@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 2d

And already have a theme song

Bad Religion - "New America"
https://youtu.be/ImxE7y9zqYM

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Glorious Leader Aladeen

VictorPrincipum@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d (1 reply)

His effectiveness as a leader has been very Aladeen.

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1d

He deserves to be Aladeen.

orenj@leminal.space · 9 pts · 2d

Fuck his theater, force him to release the epstein files and face consequences

foodandart@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 2d

Time to post photos of Mar-A-Lago onto Truth social with it rebranded as the Barack Hussein Obama Civil Rights Museum and the ballroom he's building rebranded as the American Memorial to Sexual Abuse survivors featuring the Epstein Victims Plaza and Trump Towers as the New York American Immmigration & Naturalization Center. Add a splash that says "Coming Soon!" to all 3.. and post it mercilessly..

BenReilly23@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 1d

This MF is such an embarrassment . Just boundless stupidity every fucking day . Give us one day man damn .

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d

In a sane world this guy would be in a nursing home somewhere.

supernicepojo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3d (3 replies)

Geography isnt his strong suit. I can agree with changing one name. Washington District of Columbia. Could totally change that name.

Almacca@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2d

He doesn't have a strong suit. He only has weak suits. Even his actual suits are ill-fitting.

ElCrusher@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

That's funny, being as Columbia means the United States. So quite literally Washington District of the United States, changes to what, Washington District of America, if we're following the deranged name changing? I don't know how I feel, is it less American or more?

supernicepojo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

We could name it like a stadium! Highest bidder puts there company logo on it. Open-faced corruption deserves a corporate sponsor.

someguy3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Do it. The more he does the more idiocy he shows.

Next up will be the Spanish names. Los Angeles will be America Angels. Las Vegas will be America Vegas (because Vegas). San Francisco will be America Francis.

daychilde@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

He ain't that smart, though

Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2d (11 replies)

Just want to remind everyone that everything the US ever had is stolen, including the term "America". The whole fucking continent is named America you stupid fuck, who said you can use it for your country? Everyone in North, South and Central America is American.

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d (10 replies)

I will defend the naming of United States of America simply because it was the first country to break away from the European powers, the abbreviation of America was simply inevitable given how it took another generation for the Haitians and Mexicans to break free. Also there was a lot of early ambitions that the US would've been closer to the modern EU and would've expanded far further across the continent. Obviously that didn't and won't happen but yeah.

Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 1d (9 replies)

Haitian where literal slaves who broke free, while the US didn't abolish slavery until 1860s (on paper). Not much lessons of freedom to give here.

And how do you call people who lives on the continent if the US citizens are the real Americans? Nobodys? USA's bitches? Should the Germans be entitled to called themselves European because they did whatever first? Do the Chinese have the rights on Asia because they are the most populous?

This is just more example of US arrogance.

BTW the name comes from the guy mapped south America. Maybe they should be the only Americans.

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 23h (2 replies)

The failures and successes of the revolution are kinda irrelevant as to who broke away from the European powers first, Haiti and Mexico came second and third. The politics outside of that have no bearing on the naming convention therein. It really does just come down to dibs at that point.

Personally I don't like identifying people by continent since it's clunky and stupid, similarly I'd rather not label people based on the political entity they live under. Region, ethnicity, culture, and religion is all fine in my opinion since those all have characteristics that can be identified rather than whatever shit stained flag happens to be flying at any time. For example I am a Californian and more specifically an Inland Imperial, but I will rarely if ever identify with the US outside of entirely practical reasons since quite frankly I want to see the USA reduced to the same category as the HRE that is to say dead.

Oh I entirely agree on the naming thing, it's fucken stupid. There's a Victoria 2 mod called Divergence of Darkness that does that, South America is called Ameriga (America) while I believe North America is called Arcadia or some shit can't remember. Personally I wish a convention could be done by the various North American states to find a better fucken name, personally I'm a fan of Appalachia-Laruntine, or however you spell that second word because I'm lazy.

Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 20h (1 reply)

Yeah, Haitians should have just not be slaves to begin with. The USA is the only land of the free, the first free people of the world. There's the Americans and the rest of the world, and your president gets to decide what it's called.

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 18h

I said nothing of the sort you gishgalloping pissrag. My point is purely down to time frame, the Haitians and Mexicans had simply not won their independence from the European powers when the US claimed its name, nothing more nothing less.

Probably didn't help that there was and arguably is no proper name for the Eastern coast of the US even now let alone back then. Sure some sub-regions have terms but there's no proper noun for them to latch onto for naming convention so they simply went with the only thing they had in common, the fucken continent.

But I digress. I can tell you want to fight about this or that and bitch about American exceptionallism but you ain't gonna find it with me. My ancestors were fucked by the feds and I'm fucked by the feds, I wish for nothing more than the destroy this rotting empire I have had the misfortune of being born under. To see it's rivers bled scarlet, it's fields salted, and it's capitol with a big ol' mushroom cloud above it a genocide in all but ethnicity, culture, or religion. Now how's bout you find an actual target for your pissfit rather than a hick who thinks your reasoning is shit.

gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org · -1 pts · 1d (5 replies)

Easy. In English, if someone lives in the United States, they're American. If someone lives in North America, they're North American; if they live in South America they're South American. Even better, you could use the demonym for the country they're from, i.e. Argentinian, Guatemala, Canadian, etc.

Edit: I think the confusion comes from different culture's viewpoints on the number of continents. In the Anglophone world, there is no continent called "America," there are two continents called North and South America.

Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d (4 replies)

Ouais, ça ne me plaît pas.

Puisque désormais tout le monde peut décider comment on appelle les autres, les personnes vivant sur le continent continueront d'être des Américains, sauf les citoyens américains, qui seront des « pédofascistes ». C'est beaucoup plus logique et c'est beaucoup plus simple pour tout le monde. Nous allons également faire de nouvelles cartes avec Pedoland plutôt que USA.

gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org · -2 pts · 1d (3 replies)

Bravo pour avoir ignoré mon commentaire et persisté dans la stupidité.

Later, loser. Thanks for making me type in the Fr*nch "language."

Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Ça a dû faire vraiment mal a ton ego de colonialiste de devoir utiliser une autre "langue". Dis bonjour au citoyens de pedoland pour moi.

gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org · 0 pts · 22h

Alright, I came in with a good faith answer about how the English language is used, and you started absolutely shitting your pants en Français, so apparently you're not interested in any sort of discourse, you came here to argue, so let's fucking go.

The balls you have to have to call me a "colonizer" is fucking insane. Are you fucking kidding me? You're literally French, look in the goddamn mirror. Remember those Haitians you were talking about, the ones that liberates themselves? Liberated themselves from who, motherfucker? Dit bonjour aux esclavagistes pour moi.

I don't know why you've immediately perceived me as an enemy, I hate the orange fuck more than you do. Sure, American foreign policy may have an effect on you, but it's nothing like American domestic policy. I have to deal with my tax dollars being spent on bullshit wars. I have to deal with grocery prices nearly doubling in a matter of 2 years due to dumbfuck tariffs. ICE is shooting people in the street, and the military is bombing schools overseas.

I am not your enemy, I do what I can to resist the regime, but I have to survive. There are few good choices here. I cannot throw my life away to accomplish nothing. Far-right extremism is on the rise across the Western world; I hope you remember how you treated us when Le Pen wins and you're trying to fight the good fight.

404found@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 2d

If we follow similar logic, Mar-A-Lago should be renamed too because that is Spanish.

eddanja@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d (2 replies)

Yo like wtf does this guy have against Mexico so much? Like, who hurt you?

SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2d (1 reply)

They're not white. That's basically it.

discocactus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

Funny thing is a LOT of Mexicans are white or what would pass for white in the US. US Americans are just used to seeing "browner" Mexican immigrants who tend to be poor and tend to have more indigenous DNA. So.

Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 2d

Why doesn't he start renaming his shitty kids America?

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d

One good thing will come from this. More Americans will learn that New Mexico is a U.S. state.

oh_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d

What. A. Loser.

M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 2d (3 replies)

New New York time?

daychilde@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d (2 replies)

It was once New Amsterdam time. Why they changed it, I can't say.

Tango@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 2d

People just liked it better that way.

M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 2d

Well it if was still that time, we know what it would be changed to.

CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2d (2 replies)

If only he put half this energy towards affordability.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Even though he ran on it, he now claims affordability is a "hoax" and a "fake word".

Of course, members of his cult eat it up. My god are they stupid. I keep wondering what these idiots are going to do when he dies.

CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 20h

Because of his rabid base, his popularity will never drop below 30%

BigBenis@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d (1 reply)

What about New York, New Jersey and New Hampshire? Four New Americas is going to get confusing. Since stupidity seems to be the primary objective, I would suggest:

New Mexico -> New America

New York -> New New America

New Jersey -> New New New America

New Hampshire -> New New New New America

himmyguap@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d

Only New Mexico is the problem to him. The other three states don't contain the name of a place where a lot of brown people live.

FluidBeef@quokk.au · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

When is he going to release the rest of the America Files?

datavoid@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d

America Island

ClownStatue@piefed.social · 3 pts · 2d

… and unsurprisingly such a one trick pony with this bullshit.

vegafjord@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1d

I have never seen such creativity before /s

Alexfire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d (3 replies)

I feel myself die,

When verbal diarrhea,

Spews out of his mouth

daychilde@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d (2 replies)

edit: I can;'t count tonight

BillyClark@piefed.social · 1 pts · 2d (1 reply)

gotta trim a syllable off that last line.

That line is already five syllables. Your suggestion would make it four syllables.

Can drop the “of” and make it less formal grammar.

...or... you could use the completely natural "spews from his mouth." But of course, that again would leave the line with only four syllables.

daychilde@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

Apparently I can't count tonight.

Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d

It’s almost as if his syphllitic, dementia-addled brain can’t remember the names of things so he just calls every thing “America”

MyOpinion@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 2d (1 reply)

let's hope he renames Texas to Pedoville.

BillyClark@piefed.social · 2 pts · 2d

He could just go ahead and rename Trump Tower to the Donald Trump Center For Adults Who Can't Read Good.

outerspace@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

New York is going to be New Trumptown soon...

vane@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d (2 replies)

I am surprised he haven't renamed Periodic Table to American Table, Silicon Valley to American Valley and Silicon to America.

8oow3291d@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 2d

Don't give him any more ideas. Quick, delete your post before Trump sees it!

partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

Any day now he's going to claim credit for naming an element after America even though one already exists (Americium, atomic number 95).

HuskerX@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2d (2 replies)

Why not stop messing around and rename the American continent to Trump? North Trump, South Trump, United States of Trump etc.

tal@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 2d (1 reply)

It turned out that the United States couldn't do that without paying licensing fees to Trump.

smeenz@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 2d

That seems exactly like something he would do

bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com · -3 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Is this that thing that was clearly a satire post? Did this paper buy it?

Tango@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 2d

Everything Trump says is a joke until he does it