Ding Dong the puppet is gone

[Geronimo]

full: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...and-california

I hope they can push this far enough to at least make the point obvious. They can play the long bluff joke as well as he can.

[N35t0r]

The White House is not letting AP journalists into press releases because they will not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America".

Good job USA, you're now almost indistinguishable from a tin-pot banana dictatorship.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ap-journalism-first-amendment-8a83d8b506053249598e807f8e91e1ae

[BeBMan]

The White House is not letting AP journalists into press releases because they will not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America".

Pettiness is the new greatness.

[Geronimo]

for him to dig in his heels on something even the Onion might have blushed to publish should be shockingly outrageous. Who knew I could experience "boil the frog" to this degree in just a few weeks of campaign and presidency. Will he even be capable of shocking me ever again? I hope I don't find out.

Does anyone know if there's something behind this? I see that Fort Liberty has been named to Fort Bragg again (supposedly different Bragg though). I wonder if "journalists" that refused to refer to Fort Liberty as Fort Bragg were similarly excluded by the Biden administration? If that, or anything like it, turns out to be the case I hope Trump can learn the difference between changing the name of a piece of federal property vs changing the name of a geographic transnational feature. I hope that nobody outside of those Trump has the power to fire will use such a ridiculous and unjustifiable renaming as "Gulf of America".

This shouldn't really matter to me. it's a minor thing in the bigger scheme of things. But for some reason the cringe factor this has for me is off the charts on the face palm scale.

[Elok]

This isn't even new for Republicans. Freedom Fries were more than twenty years ago. This is admittedly on a bigger scale. The AP has a pretty solid First Amendment case with this from what I hear.

[Dauphin]

I hope that nobody outside of those Trump has the power to fire will use such a ridiculous and unjustifiable renaming as "Gulf of America".

Check Google Maps

[Geronimo]

Check Google Maps

I can't. It's too soon. This is like watching a traffic accident...from the inside.

[N35t0r]

Check Google Maps

Over here it's displayed as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"

It gives me a chuckle.

[giblets]

MapQuest hasn't bent the knee

[N35t0r]

The Falklands are "Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)" here in Germany, so I get a warm fuzzy feeling that the USA has joined a club of only the greatest.

[giblets]

There's also "Sea of Japan (East Sea)"

[Broken_Erika]

Meanwhile

[BeBMan]

These should be renamed to Freedom Tariffs.

[N35t0r]

There's also "Sea of Japan (East Sea)"

[The Mad Monk]

"Yellow Sea" is clearly racist.

[BeBMan]

But the Red Sea is clearly communist

[Dauphin]

Russia separates the Black and White sea.