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I don’t know which is worse. That he is a twat, or that Google think their renaming something on their maps actually means anything (as he obviously does).
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Google says they can’t do it because it borders multiple countries. Didn’t stop them from changing the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario.
Google lies.
Trump should tariff the internet.
Eh, whatever excuse keeps the toddler in chief pacified for a bit.
Fair enough, just keep him away from the nukes and toddlers that remind him of his daughter I suppose.
Google didn’t say anything
Trump claimed Sundar said things, and you implicitly trust him
What made you assume Trump is telling the truth accurately? What in his political career gave you that trust in him?
To be fair, that’s what Trump says Google said. Even odds the entire conversation only happened in his mind.
He just keeps escalating demands until he’s stopped.
If you read the article text, he’s telling people at a rally that he asked Google’s CEO to do it and they said no.
Now, I’d take anything Trump says about deals and interactions with anyone else with a large grain of salt, as he’s pretty flagrantly lied in the past, but even if taken at face value, he’s saying that his request didn’t go through.
First he asks, then he posts on social media and then makes an executive order.
Declared you say?
Now, I’d take anything Trump says about deals and interactions with anyone else with a large grain of salt,
Doesn’t really apply in this case. Either option, 1) Trump asked or 2) Trump lies about asking, are pretty much equally bad. Trump is proven unfit to manage a McDonalds in either case.
Now Trump claiming someone else said is always worthy of skepticism. Especially when it is someone not aligned with Trump.
Sounds like the behaviour of a very public rapist
Trump told supporters at Wednesday’s rally in South Carolina that he asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai to suggest renaming either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean the “Trump Ocean,” but was told it could not because oceans span numerous countries.
Unlike gulfes or lakes.
Yeah, but that’s just Mexico and Canada, and who cares about them?? /s
They’ve caved to him before so why not keep going? That’s how he works.
Only in the US… Fairly sure they didn’t do anything internationally. Sounds like they did the bare minimum
They added the bullshit names in parentheses - as if anyone would actually use them anywhere else in the world.
May need it so you know wtf someone’s talking about when talking to a Trump supporter and they’re talking about the Golf von Amerika, formerly known as Rabbit von Amerika
The Slumlord Sea
The wikipedia page for Lake Ontario doesn’t even mention the nonsense about renaming it
Gulf of Mexico? Atlantic is only a bigger version of that (that touches more countries)
Happy to call it the Mexican ocean…
I’d prefer to keep it Atlantic, doesn’t need any country or even continent’s name on it, not even my own (Europe that is; my country is way too far from the ocean itself to make a claim anyway).
IF we’re going to have to troll Trump, it could be the West African Ocean though. Pacific would be East Asian Ocean then.
His dementia is in free fall. Watch him speak today, then watch him speak during his first term, when he already had undeniable signs. He’s fucking gone. Any one of us would be in a home if we were this bad off.
The amount of time he spends talking about men’s asses these days is wild.
If he had his wits with him he’d pick the biggest ocean. Not #2.
Eagerly waiting for the Happy Meal cholesterol to do its thing. I have a tattoo planned for once it happens
Earth? You must mean Trump. You see, the Trump orbits the Trump once every 365 Trumps. I happen to live in the United Trump of Trumps. I live in the state of Trump on the little island of Trump in the city of Trump. Trump Trump Trump, Trump Trump Trump!
It can all be a little bit confusing at times. That’s why I started playing the Trumpet, as a hobby, as that was the one musical Trump that didn’t need to be renamed. Besides that, watching a lot of The Smurfs, I mean, The Trumps, has also helped to better “grok” this brave new language. I mean, this brave new Trump.
America, america america america america. Trump trump trump trump trump trump.
simma down now racist smurf… I kid, I kid…
does give me flashbacks to my neighbors though, have an upvote anyway
This is distraction propaganda. Ifnore it and instead note that that his deployment of national guard has been rules as unlawful, a shit ton of people are finding out their citizenship has been revoked, hormuz is a fucking mess, oil prices spiked again, they’re trying to make it actively illegal and punishable by law to medically treat non-citizens, they just ruled that detained migrants have literally zero rights to anything, they’re actively trying to crucify Ilhan Omar as a political act to establish precedent, among others.
This is nothing, treat it as such. Nobody is immune to propaganda.
I heard today about a Canadian woman who had been living in the Untied States for 14 years, died because she was afraid to seek medical treatment.
I also heard about a 51 year old man who only just found out that he’s not a citizen, he was adopted when he was a baby and lived in the Untied States all his life. Seems a sane and rational country would just make him a citizen at this point
I don’t hate many people.
But I absolutely hate this motherfucker.
He earned it!
Facts.
Anything to keep distracting from the files.
the only thing he cares about with the files is getting out of the presidence and some reasonably progressive dems coming in and properly locking him up for the rest of his live.
SCOTUS won’t let it happen tho
Lake Ontario, along with other lakes touches multiple countries… Google had no problem there 😉. In reality Americans are free to use whatever names they feel like for anything in the world, just like with the empirial measurement system but don’t count on others to know WTF you talk about when you open your mouth.
So does the Gulf of MEXICO.
US customary because they got imperial wrong.
pedo troll say what
Newsweek isn’t a reliable source, in particular not as a single source. Be wary.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/trump-atlantic-ocean-rename-google
Reliable or not, the Orange himself bragged about it few days ago
… I am yelling at people to do their due diligence, not doubt fact.
Using outlets that report non factually when they do will build trust for when they misinform.
Good on you for being aware of and caring about such things and for spreading the word about it! Keep fightin’ the good fight! :)
I would argue he is also very much not a reliable source, but your point is taken, and in today’s world it’s becoming increasingly difficult to know what a reliable source even means.
Oh, he only occasionally tells truth, but this one sounded real and in line with his delusions.
This article only describes the literal words of the President
This is one instance where Trump is not to blame. It’s a perfectly reasonable request in light of Google’s capitulation on the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario.
Who knew a rapist would keep pushing past boundaries that other people would not cross? How could anyone have known!
I hope The Onion doesn’t go bankrupt because of Trump, since they can’t even get a satirical article made because everything real is currently on the level of satire
They can simply become a reputable news organization, and don’t even have to change up their content much!
The back catalog will confuse people into thinking it’s always been this batshit, though. XD
It only took 6 months for this satirical article to become reality.
The singularity approaches.
“The Atlantic borders other countries”???
And the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario don’t…?
