US Government renames Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America (nytimes.com) 7 points by master_crab 1y ago ↗ HN
[–] master_crab 1y ago ↗ Gulf of Mexico has been renamed by the Interior Department to Gulf of America. Denali was also renamed back to Mt. McKinley.
[–] wryoak 1y ago ↗ Gulf of America doesn’t bother me, but I’m going to have to keep calling the mountain Denali. Better name by far imo
[–] rsynnott 1y ago ↗ This is prime “insane dictator” behaviour. One assumes that the next step will be renaming the calendar (Trumpuary, Muskuary, Bighandsuary, etc), a la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov
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