Well why not just speed things up and rename every state, every city, every town, every river, every lake, every mountain, every forest “America”?
The tinfoil king would love to.
Trump appeared to suggest on Sunday that New Mexico should be renamed “New America,” prompting swift backlash from the state’s Democratic leaders over his latest effort to put an American stamp on geographic names.
Sir, America is already the name of the whole country. Naming everything “America” would be like naming everything “Trump”. It would look silly. You don’t want to look silly do you? Vulgar, yes, a bully, yes, but silly? What would your uncle who taught engineering at MIT say?
On social media, Mr. Trump shared an image of a map of New Mexico with the word “Mexico” crossed out with a red X and replaced with “America.” The White House re-shared the image shortly after on its official X account.
The president posted again several hours later, with what appeared to be an A.I. video of him placing a label with the word “America” over “Mexico” on a “Welcome to New Mexico” road sign.
Mr. Trump has no legal authority to rename any state, which in New Mexico’s case is written into its Constitution. Any proposed change would have to originate within the state, a prospect that New Mexico’s Democratic leaders rejected forcefully on Sunday.
The words “Trump has no legal authority” don’t mean anything to Trump. They might as well be in Urdu.
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