“What’s in a name?”
On the surface, those wouldn’t seem like fighting words … unless being aggressively bandied about by a White Housed world leader inclined to readily stir the international pot.
As you might have guessed, I’m referencing the superficially sophomoric name battle between America’s head honcho, el Donaldo, and Mexico’s head honcha, Claudia Sheinbaum.
Within one day in office, our man at 1600 executively ordered the Gulf of Mexico immediately be renamed Gulf of America. “OK, what else is on my ‘first day’ list, Elon?”
During his e-ordering, Trump was quoted as saying, “The Gulf will continue to play a pivotal role in shaping America’s…
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