I don’t know which is worse. That he is a twat, or that Google think their renaming something on their maps actually means anything (as he obviously does).

    • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Only in the US… Fairly sure they didn’t do anything internationally. Sounds like they did the bare minimum

      • mouserat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        They added the bullshit names in parentheses - as if anyone would actually use them anywhere else in the world.

          • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            16 hours ago

            I’d prefer to keep it Atlantic, doesn’t need any country or even continent’s name on it, not even my own (Europe that is; my country is way too far from the ocean itself to make a claim anyway).

            IF we’re going to have to troll Trump, it could be the West African Ocean though. Pacific would be East Asian Ocean then.

  • cøre@leminal.spaceEnglish
    101·
    2 days ago

    Google says they can’t do it because it borders multiple countries. Didn’t stop them from changing the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    Earth? You must mean Trump. You see, the Trump orbits the Trump once every 365 Trumps. I happen to live in the United Trump of Trumps. I live in the state of Trump on the little island of Trump in the city of Trump. Trump Trump Trump, Trump Trump Trump!

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      simma down now racist smurf… I kid, I kid…

      does give me flashbacks to my neighbors though, have an upvote anyway

  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    This is distraction propaganda. Ifnore it and instead note that that his deployment of national guard has been rules as unlawful, a shit ton of people are finding out their citizenship has been revoked, hormuz is a fucking mess, oil prices spiked again, they’re trying to make it actively illegal and punishable by law to medically treat non-citizens, they just ruled that detained migrants have literally zero rights to anything, they’re actively trying to crucify Ilhan Omar as a political act to establish precedent, among others.

    This is nothing, treat it as such. Nobody is immune to propaganda.

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I heard today about a Canadian woman who had been living in the Untied States for 14 years, died because she was afraid to seek medical treatment.

      I also heard about a 51 year old man who only just found out that he’s not a citizen, he was adopted when he was a baby and lived in the Untied States all his life. Seems a sane and rational country would just make him a citizen at this point

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 days ago

    His dementia is in free fall. Watch him speak today, then watch him speak during his first term, when he already had undeniable signs. He’s fucking gone. Any one of us would be in a home if we were this bad off.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      371·
      2 days ago

      If you read the article text, he’s telling people at a rally that he asked Google’s CEO to do it and they said no.

      Now, I’d take anything Trump says about deals and interactions with anyone else with a large grain of salt, as he’s pretty flagrantly lied in the past, but even if taken at face value, he’s saying that his request didn’t go through.

      • 8oow3291d@feddit.dkEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Now, I’d take anything Trump says about deals and interactions with anyone else with a large grain of salt,

        Doesn’t really apply in this case. Either option, 1) Trump asked or 2) Trump lies about asking, are pretty much equally bad. Trump is proven unfit to manage a McDonalds in either case.

        Now Trump claiming someone else said is always worthy of skepticism. Especially when it is someone not aligned with Trump.

  • teutotina@feddit.orgEnglish
    47·
    2 days ago

    Trump told supporters at Wednesday’s rally in South Carolina that he asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai to suggest renaming either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean the “Trump Ocean,” but was told it could not because oceans span numerous countries.

    Unlike gulfes or lakes.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      the only thing he cares about with the files is getting out of the presidence and some reasonably progressive dems coming in and properly locking him up for the rest of his live.

      SCOTUS won’t let it happen tho

  • starik@lemmy.todayEnglish
    102·
    1 day ago

    This is one instance where Trump is not to blame. It’s a perfectly reasonable request in light of Google’s capitulation on the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario.

    • DrSoap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      Who knew a rapist would keep pushing past boundaries that other people would not cross? How could anyone have known!

  • droopy4096@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    Lake Ontario, along with other lakes touches multiple countries… Google had no problem there 😉. In reality Americans are free to use whatever names they feel like for anything in the world, just like with the empirial measurement system but don’t count on others to know WTF you talk about when you open your mouth.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    The man wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to downgrade his sex trafficing to domestic.