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We have the Gulf of America and Lake America now, and President Donald Trump isn’t finished. Late Wednesday morning, he wrote:
Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be “hotter” than ever before! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
MS NOW quickly took the bait, posting less than two hours later a huffy article trying to portray Trump’s trolling as a problem for Republicans: “Trump suggests renaming the Strait of Hormuz after himself, causing fresh trouble for the GOP.”
Yeah, no. Republicans aren’t going to turn away from Trump because he trolls Democrats; quite the contrary. TDS sufferers may froth at the mouth with rage at this new enormity from Orange Man Bad, but others will laugh it off.
That’s what Trump himself does, a fact that MS NOW, true to form, tried to spin as a negative as it went into annoying schoolmarm mode to explain why we should all be offended at the idea of a Trump Strait: “Right off the bat, it’s worth emphasizing that Trump’s repeated insistence that the United States now ‘controls’ the Strait of Hormuz is absurd.” There was a link on “is absurd” that went back to an earlier MS NOW article; in other words, they didn’t have any real evidence.
MS NOW was also incensed that Trump has said this before: “Let’s not forget that he made similar comments about renaming the Strait of Hormuz after himself in March, although at the time the president played it up for laughs. Six months later, there was no implied humor in his missive about the waterway, which he’s also begun referring to in recent weeks as a U.S. territory. (It’s not.)” What would we do without MS NOW to explain these things to us?
It was, of all people, disgraced National Security Adviser John Bolton who explained to the terminally humorless (that is, leftists) several weeks ago what Trump is doing here. “Trump is trolling people,” Bolton said. “In the first term, I was in his office once. He was dictating a tweet when he told the person typing it, ‘Capitalize all the letters in that last sentence’… And he said, ‘Because it drives them crazy.’”
Indeed. And Trump’s tendency to rename things drives leftists particularly crazy, which may be why he so delights in doing it: the left’s incandescent rage at Trump over the names of the (former!) Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario throws into sharp relief the hypocrisy of the people who demanded that everyone use the pronouns “she” and “her” for mentally ill men who insisted they were really women, and who renamed American military bases all over the country that had been named for Confederate generals.
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somehistory says
Some individuals know just how to pull the strings….and Mr. Trump is one of those people…of others who may be *sensitive*.
The mulla ghouls of iran would salivate at the prospect of being able to change the names of places in the U.S. in worship of their false god and fake prophet, as well as some of their more notorious terrorists.
The strings of the left are being pulled and the pride of the ghouls is being threatened.
Taffy says
Globes are expensive! I’m not happy about making my previous globe obsolete every time Trump changes a geographic name.
Namer says
Guessing you weren’t alive when the Soviet Union fell apart into different countries at different times, Countries were changing names almost daily.
Also, while that was going on lots of 3rd world countries spit or changed their ditto in Eastern Europe. You could go back further when England and France were carving up the world.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I still have an old globe from back in the 1970s. Not only does it still have countries like the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia: it also has countries like North and South Vietnam, North and South Yemen, amidst a few others. It does have Bangladesh instead of East Pakistan, so I think it was manufactured some time b/w 1971 and 1975
It’s a unique one in that it has a bulb inside that can be lit, and has a physical map of the world outside. When unlit, that globe gives you the world’s geographical and topological features. But when lit, each country comes up in a different color. Two years ago, I somehow managed to have the globe opened and the bulb replaced, and in the process, discovered that inside, each country had its own color, which revealed why that globe became a political globe when lit
I had a whole bunch of Encyclopedia Britannicas from that time that I donatedd to a library in 1999, since most of the information in it was dated. But I have never found another globe like that one, even today, which is a reason I kept it. My nephew recently noticed that it had the Soviet Union on it, and was impressed at it being a “retro” globe
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Even John Bolton, who has his disagreements w/ Trump, knows that the latter is trolling people. He advises his pals on the Left about it, but they keep falling for it
That said, there is a foreign aspect to this trolling that can damage our interest: the Iranian people. While some of them may take that as a trolling, they are very sensitive about geopolitical naming. As it is, there has been a trend in the region by their Arab neighbors to rebrand the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf. Maybe in opposition to the islamic republic, or maybe just out of colloquial convenience, many Americans in the diplomatic establishment simply call it the Gulf. That is one thing the Iranians don’t take very kindly to, since it was called the Persian Gulf long before the islamic republic – in fact when cartographers were first mapping out the area. As Armin Navabi points out, Iranians don’t call the Arabian Sea the Persian Sea, so why does the Persian Gulf have to be rebranded due to the misdeeds of the islamic republic?
Hormuz is even more unique in that the name isn’t muslim at all: it is named after Ahura Mazda, the Zoroastrian God. As a result, there is something uniquely non-Islamic about that name, apart from also being Persian. It’s therefore a bad idea to rename the Strait of Hormuz, even as a joke. If Trump wants to troll countries, why not troll Oman, and “threaten” to rename the Gulf of Oman to the Trump Gulf? Especially since he has openly threatened Oman as well, for having its own independent negotiations w/ the IRGC
Also, Trump did rename the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, so maybe some people are justified in getting nervous. Although these 2 are waters bordering America, while Hormuz is nowhere near America. and so the US calling it something else wouldn’t mean a thing. So while the trolling is great, I do think he should be mindful of what allies, such as the Iranian people struggling against their regime, would think of it
Luchtpint says
That’s all pretty neat and fine, and such, but there remains a lot of fun to be had baiting the perpetual moral outrage of leftists, either way.
Either they swallow some pills to reduce their high blood pressure or either they die from an ensuing heart attack.
ROFL
Namer says
Trump loves to troll the dems just to see them froth at the mouths and lose their collective minds. I love to see it happen! Shows people over and over how unhinged the left is.
Rarely528 says
Most of us stopped this type of trolling by grade 3 when we moved up to Knock-knock jokes.
Nevertheless, Trump does seem to be on a quest to put his name on everything he can.
The name “trump” is becoming synonymous with “idiot” so all the dictionaries will have to be reprinted.
ploome says
I have to laugh at the the headline here, Trump really knows which buttons to push
idiot is people like you, probably an Obamaphile
our first muslim president sure did great for the country
and his brilliant vice-president, and then president Biden was even better
and we really missed a bullet when the incomparable
Kamala was not elected
TDS=low IQ
jack reynolds says
The Canadian WEASEL has been renamed the TRUMP.
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gravenimage says
Are You Ready for the TRUMP STRAIT?
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I generally find this stuff pretty silly–but I have to admit that the “Trump Strait” has a nice ring to it…