QUESTION: Do you not see the vanity in Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America? That is outrageous.
FJ
ANSWER: Look, I perceive folks say they’re American, that means they’re from the US. Traditionally, it was named the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Spanish owned nearly every little thing from Florida to Texas, aside from Louisiana, which Thomas Jefferson bought from the French. We reside in North America, which incorporates Mexico and Canada, after which there may be South America. Technically, renaming the Gulf of Mexico from when it was all Mexico to the Gulf of America is just not the Gulf of the US. It’s correct as a result of “America” is just not formally the US of America.
America is known as after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then-revolutionary idea that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 had been a part of a separate continent. Columbus thought he discovered India, which is why we name the indigenous folks American Indians. To say Trump is being smug is questionable. The Gulf of America might be extra correct since that is all of North America. Calling it the Guld of the USA or one thing like that will be smug.
