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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    7 hours ago

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

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    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.

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      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.

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

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

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            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.

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            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.

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      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)

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

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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

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

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      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.

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    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.