During a press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 7, the 78-year-old president-elect shared his plan for renaming the Gulf of Mexico. “We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” Trump told reporters.
  • jg1i@lemmy.worldEnglish
    104·
    2 months ago

    The US doesn’t have exclusive rights to “America” as a name.

    Agreed. Let’s also change our demonym to Unitedstatian.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      That’s also unclear, given the United States of Mexico.

      Edit: I guess we could do Columbian, but I gotta assume Colombia would be annoyed and it’s not exactly descriptive of our foreign policy.

    • Rinox@feddit.itEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      You joke but in many languages they do that, for instance “statunitensi” or “estadounidenses”

      • jg1i@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        I don’t joke actually. I chose “Unitedstatians” exactly because that’s what other languages do.