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Does he think the president of the United States just gets to unilaterally name stuff?
Uh yes? He has unlimited power. See Gulf of America.
Never heard of it
Really? Its where mar-la-go empties its sewers into.
Unfortunately that is… Generally how it works. As far as the federal government is concerned. There are international laws, treaties, and obligations but it’s been decided that for executive branch matters the president can decide the designation. It’s the same rule used by Obama, granted his was a use of class and care instead of stupidity and nationalist isolationism. 😓
Yes, but that power only extends to the government itself. The subservient American media will probably fall in line even though they aren’t legally obliged to, and the rest of the world will mostly ignore him because this is obviously stupid.
I think the more important thing here is to understand that this achieves nothing. It’s not useful as a threat - we literally do not care - and so only serves as deliberate antagonism. Given that America is still allegedly trying to get a trade deal with us, even if they’re trying to force a more favorable deal with tariffs and other forms of pressure, this still doesn’t help them reach that goal in any way. Like so much of what Trump does it’s just childish and self-destructive.
Oh I agree it’s entirely stupid and pointless and so many other negative things, but the law is emplaced to technically allow him capacity to do it. Unlike the vast majority of stupid illegal shit he has and is doing.
Your laws stop at your border
Agreed, but within them he can force the government to call shit what he’d like*
*Currently and unfortunately.
Ok but forcing US government agencies to call something the wrong name is just pathetic and accomplishes nothing. And most notably, it doesn’t actually change the name of the thing.
Well, it does change the name in a substantial amount of circumstances relevant to us citizens. I don’t disagree with you otherwise. It’s entirely pathetic and acutely stupid.
Oh, I’m sure the president can decide what name America official calls something. That doesn’t change the name of the actual thing. It will still be lake ontario
Cant wait for the next President to rename Florida to FlObama
Who’s gonna break it to him? Mexico and Canada are in America. And Greenland isn’t really as big as most maps make it look.
I’m sure “The United States” was thinking real hard about that.
Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League would beg to differ.
also like… literally almost everything else. Ontario is like 80% of our countries economy, toronto alone is like 25%
