The president of Mexico on Thursday expressed hope that Google “reconsiders” its decision to change its online maps to reflect U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that he has the authority to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.
Shortly after taking office, Trump issued an executive order announcing he was changing the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America.
For U.S. users of Google Maps, the gulf was listed as the Gulf of America as of Thursday. Google, whose CEO attended Trump’s inauguration along with other tech moguls, said last month it has “a long-standing practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”
But Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned Thursday that her government “will file a civil suit” against Google if it does not revert back to labeling the international body of water the Gulf of Mexico.
If you want to know more about how the US government works, I’m not the person to educate you.
Then why are you here trying to tell people that one asshole with an opinion is the government?
You can argue with strangers on the Internet as much as you like, but the fact is, the US president can and has changed the name of multiple geographic features, and arguing with me won’t change that.
Oh, you’ve been caught being dumb and your story is changing.
First it was “the government”, now it’s “the president”.
That’s not how America works, lol. Naming things is a legislative responsibility. Trump can sign as many executive orders as he wants, but it isn’t official without an act of congress and a chance for the judiciary to object.
potus is the “head of government”. Would you prefer @Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee to write “head of government of the USA has changed the name”?
give them a break!
That would be less inaccurate, lol.
And no. I’ll be a pedantic asshole to anyone who pretends that Trump is anything other than one of President Musk’s assistants.
i feel your pain and disillusionment but it is what it is. The real “asshole” is changing the world with his Sharpie.
Good luck to you for the next 4 years
If Trump gets to redefine reality as he sees fit then we do too.
See you on the other side, friendo.
Yes, and Congress delegated that authority in 1947 via Public Law 242, creating the US Board on Geographic Names, under the Secretary of the Interior, part of the executive branch. The President has the authority to direct the Secretary.
You can speak as confidently as you like, but you’re still wrong. Feel free to learn: https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names
Did you not read the page you linked?
That org was “established in its present form by Public Law in 1947 to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government.”
It’s a standards-setting org that resolves differences between other agencies of the government when there is disagreement about a place name, it isn’t entitled to rename things everyone was already in agreement about, lol~
Yes, it sets the official name of each place. That’s what everyone here is talking about.
Again, read the page you linked:
Key word: “unsettled”
Trump is unsettling.
The president is part of the government, they’re not two separate entities.
And once again, there is nothing to be gained by arguing with me about this.
You underestimate how much I enjoy arguing with people on the internet, lol.
So is this your admission that your earlier statement was false, or are you still pretending that “part of” is the same thing as “all”?
He’s the part of the government that has the power to unilaterally change the name of a location.
Kim Jung Un you mean?
You’re thinking of fascism. In America, the legislature names things, the executive signs or vetoes, and the judiciary adjudicates.
I have some bad news for you.
Clearly, since you think an executive order is a law.