Trump calling the Persian Gulf the "Arabian Gulf" is peak geopolitical toddler tantrum - rewriting ancient geography like he's slapping his name on a bankrupt casino. Maybe next he’ll rename Iran "Un-America" and declare it fixed.
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We already have the Gulf of Aqaba, why do we need two arabian gulfs?
“If Trump went ahead with the proposal he would manage to unite every Iranian, pro- or anti-regime, against him, and that is a near impossible achievement,” one diplomat said.
lol
trust the plan.
JDPON Don is in control.
The rage bait president
Is this his new micro-obsession, renaming shit?
It's just a primative dominance shit. Common among angloid colonial brained fascists
Not a single gulf will not be renamed by the end of Trump's term. Gulf of Riga, that's Ivanka Gulf now. Gulf of Alaska, Northern Gulf of America... Gulf of Boothia? Don't know where that is, but Donald Trump Jr. Gulf now.
It's like all this guy does is Gulf.
Gulf of California? Gulf of Maine? Swap em. You’re welcome Mexico.
That's how we get geographical names like:
"Gulf... Gulf"
"I Have No Idea Where It Is Peninsula"
"Empty Quarter Desert"*
"Somewhere In Russia? Idk Lake"
"Stop Moving The Map River"
*this one is actually real
Google is gonna change it by next month
They're already queuing it up
"no fucking way"
opens google maps
"DoNt CoMpLy In AdVaNcE!"
Fucking losers. Can you get your nose out of the president's stinking ass for a sec please?
bruh
Gotta keep Daddy Trump happy.
Did earlier presidents have Rand McNally on speed-dial?
i don't exactly remember but it's been this way for a while. google does this chicken shit thing about every other contested area or name. this one was doing round here since 2010 or something.
I expect nothing and I'm still disappointed.
you know it really doesn't matter what the name of the gulf is, iran has arabs and iranians aren't just persians but it's just that no one is queuing up to rename the indian ocean or the english channel (to the french channel) or gulf of thailand or bay of bengal or ... it's just the iranians that have to be belittled and resisted in every single fucking thing. absolutely fuck off.
I expect that this type of shit is really effective. All the libs in positions of power can talk about it endlessly. They won't be able to help themselves. In their boundless eagerness to take the bait they'll completely set aside any interest in building working class power that could actually be used to do anything transformative.
This is essentially the how the parties collaborate
You know, Peter O’Toole - beautiful man. Regal. Looked incredible on a camel. But the real genius was T.E. Lawrence. I met him, by the way. At a party in Palm Beach. Long time ago. Very intense. Knew everything about tribes, maps, loyalty. Wore linen. A little too much, maybe, but he made it work. We had a great conversation. Very strategic mind - he respected me a lot.
Obligatory, "I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but..."
Is he doing this so we get used to hearing this dumb shit, then when he goes to rename the US to "Dumfuqistan" or something, we're like, there goes crazy old Trump renaming things again! Then when we pull out the constitution, his lawyers can go, that was a rule for the US, we're not the US anymore, so that rule is void...
little-known loophole of "who's gonna stop me"
Entirely unnecessary. He can just say the rule is void, and there will be absolutely zero resistance to it.
He doesn’t even have to say it’s void, he’ll just do it. The libs will cry about how it’s not allowed, some judge will tell him to stop, but he’ll kill the judge and the libs will move onto the more worthwhile outrage of him being mean to Vietnam war criminals again
I hope he does it then. The US shooting itself in the foot to death would be poetic.
He's not that smart
He's doing this purely because he can and to spite Iran
he doesn't even need to be intentionally doing it; the inevitable result is the same
Idiot. Moron. Stupid. Agh I know he’s evil but he’s also really really really stupid
most presidents go golfin', this one keeps goin' Gulfin'