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.
I will defend the naming of United States of America simply because it was the first country to break away from the European powers, the abbreviation of America was simply inevitable given how it took another generation for the Haitians and Mexicans to break free. Also there was a lot of early ambitions that the US would’ve been closer to the modern EU and would’ve expanded far further across the continent. Obviously that didn’t and won’t happen but yeah.
Haitian where literal slaves who broke free, while the US didn’t abolish slavery until 1860s (on paper). Not much lessons of freedom to give here.
And how do you call people who lives on the continent if the US citizens are the real Americans? Nobodys? USA’s bitches? Should the Germans be entitled to called themselves European because they did whatever first? Do the Chinese have the rights on Asia because they are the most populous?
This is just more example of US arrogance.
BTW the name comes from the guy mapped south America. Maybe they should be the only Americans.
Easy. In English, if someone lives in the United States, they’re American. If someone lives in North America, they’re North American; if they live in South America they’re South American. Even better, you could use the demonym for the country they’re from, i.e. Argentinian, Guatemala, Canadian, etc.
Edit: I think the confusion comes from different culture’s viewpoints on the number of continents. In the Anglophone world, there is no continent called “America,” there are two continents called North and South America.
Ouais, ça ne me plaît pas.
Puisque désormais tout le monde peut décider comment on appelle les autres, les personnes vivant sur le continent continueront d’être des Américains, sauf les citoyens américains, qui seront des « pédofascistes ». C’est beaucoup plus logique et c’est beaucoup plus simple pour tout le monde. Nous allons également faire de nouvelles cartes avec Pedoland plutôt que USA.
Bravo pour avoir ignoré mon commentaire et persisté dans la stupidité.
Later, loser. Thanks for making me type in the Fr*nch “language.”
Ça a dû faire vraiment mal a ton ego de colonialiste de devoir utiliser une autre “langue”. Dis bonjour au citoyens de pedoland pour moi.