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But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does. We should just leave it alone.

Wouldn’t surprise me if this was inspired to circumvent the new ban on oil drilling Biden just enacted. “We’re drilling in the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of Mexico.”

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The US doesn’t have exclusive rights to “America” as a name. In fact strictly speaking “Gulf of America” is not a bad name since it is the largest gulf in the Americas AFAIK.

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58 points

This is, of course, not why Trump is doing this.

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The reason is racism

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True, they’ll probably call it Gulf of 'MURICA!

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Then maybe “Gulf of the Americas” would be more appropriate.

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

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

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

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15 points

Canada has more land mass than the US does. Perhaps Trump should be talking about integrating the US into Canada (and doing away with the now-redundant US Presidential position).

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I’m sure Canada would love that influx of crazy

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Cascadia awaits…

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Cascadia, the one envisioned as a racist white ethnostate?

What the fuck is wrong with you?

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But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does.

He’ll solve that too.

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We’ll croatia them and canada.

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But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does.

USA != America. USA is a country that resides on the North American Continent.

While I know Trump is doing this to try and claim it as the USA’s… It actually makes sense if you actually use “America” properly to refer to North, Central and South America.

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