Trump says he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico

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21. MaddowBlog-'The Gulf of America': Trump vows to rename the Gulf of Mexico

“We’ll be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring,” the president-elect vowed. He wasn’t kidding.
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‘The Gulf of America’: Trump vows to rename the Gulf of Mexico: "We’ll be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring," Donald Trump vowed. He wasn't kidding.

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It never occurred to me that this could become an actual goal of Republican officials in reality. And yet, with 13 days remaining before Inauguration Day, Donald Trump has inadvertently stolen my ridiculous idea and vowed to pursue it as part of his second-term agenda. This was the message the Republican president-elect shared during his latest press conference at Mar-a-Lago:

We’re going to be announcing at a future date, pretty soon, we’re going to change — because we do most of the work there, and it’s ours — we’re going be changing — sort of the opposite of Biden, where he’s closing everything up, essentially getting rid of $50 to $60 trillion worth of assets — we’ll be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring. That covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America: What a beautiful name. And it’s appropriate. It’s appropriate.”

As a video clip from the event makes clear, the incoming American president is not kidding.

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.....But stepping back, it’s worth taking stock of the Republican’s increasingly bizarre foreign policy agenda as he prepares to return to the White House. Since Election Day, Trump has:

leaned into the idea of adding Greenland to the United States;
talked with increasing enthusiasm about adding Canada to the U.S. through some kind of unexplained “merger”;
raised the prospect of the U.S. seizing control of the Panama Canal;
and vowed to impose trade tariffs on each of the U.S.’ three largest trade partners.

What’s more, asked at his Mar-a-Lago event whether he can “assure the world” that he won’t “use military or economic coercion” toward Greenland and Panama, the incoming president declined.

“No, I can’t assure you on either of those two, but I can say this, we need them for economic security,” Trump replied.