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He campaigned on lowering grocery prices and ending the war in Ukraine, but now he’s changing his tune. Trump’s focusing on what he thinks matters most, and apparently that’s renaming things that people have no issue with.

Like all of Trump’s “great” ideas, the pitch comes off like an infomercial that you open your eyes to at 4 AM after falling asleep on the couch. “You’ve heard of the America Canal, now get ready for the Gulf of America.” Surely he can’t be serious.

Well, he is serious. And please call him Shirley, we’re sure he hates that. It looks like this weird obsession with imperialism is going to be the top priority. Why? Because he can’t do anything else, and his cult needs something to be angry about. He claims this move will slow the flow of drugs from Mexico. Yeah, right.

In what world would changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America dissuade drug traffickers from running their product over the border? Perhaps in the same world that 24 karat gold bathroom fixtures and shag carpeting makes people more likely to fly on a failing airline. Perhaps one that only exists in Trump’s pea-sized brain. 

At face value, this is just a media ploy. He’s been doing this for months now. Taking something that nobody cares about and making a big deal over nothing to distract from the fact that Trump has no idea what he's doing, and that this administration will accomplish virtually nothing. Sure, inflation is trending upwards, but did you see that America may get the naming rights to a body of water?

This is his plan. This presidency is going to be like a giant movie production with a story line that goes nowhere. He isn’t in office to help Americans. He’s in office to stay out of prison and do the bare minimum. The media is watching the hand that works for clicks. We’re watching the hand that is supposed to work for the American people. Chip in to help us catch his slip-ups >>

-The Lincoln Project