John
Donald Trump’s imperialist fantasy knows no bounds. His latest executive order? Renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”
But Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has already announced what the rest of the world knows: this name change is nothing but a hollow, racist declaration of American dominance. Global maps, schools, and leaders will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico.
This isn’t an absurd vanity project, it’s a direct attack on American education.
Trump’s decree is designed to force American schools to embrace his imperialist agenda by rewriting global geography, erasing non-American contributions, and stoking nationalist propaganda.
Trump’s renaming reflects the worst of his worldview: anything America touches is ours, regardless of history or reality. This is the same arrogance that drives his threats to annex Greenland, take over the Panama Canal by force, and call Canada the 51st state.
Tell your local school board and state Department of Education: Don’t teach Trump’s Gulf of America lies. Stand up for factual education now.
Trump’s strategy is to turn America into the biggest bully in the world.
This is about more than a name. It’s about resisting a racist agenda that seeks to erase shared global history and rewrite facts in favor of American exceptionalism.
The reality is the Gulf of America will “exist” only until the next president overturns it and restores its international name, but that could be too late if the designation has already infiltrated our classrooms.
From rewriting history textbooks to bending science to suit his narrative, nothing will be safe from Trump’s arrogance.
Our children deserve better. They already have to grow up with Trump as their president, let’s make sure they aren’t taught Trump’s version of reality too.
We must protect public education. The Gulf of America does not exist. Demand public schools teach students the same facts as the rest of the world no matter what Trump decrees.
Thank you for taking action today.
- DFA AF Team