>Trump Floats Renaming New Mexico as ‘New America,’ Prompting Pushback>The suggestion, posted on social media, appeared to be the latest in the president’s efforts to alter geographic names.https://archive.is/20260907120929/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/us/politics/trump-rename-new-mexico.html>President Trump appeared to suggest on Sunday that New Mexico should be renamed “New America,” prompting swift backlash from the state’s Democratic leaders over his latest effort to put an American stamp on geographic names.>On social media, Mr. Trump shared an image of a map of New Mexico with the word “Mexico” crossed out with a red X and replaced with “America.” The White House re-shared the image shortly after on its official X account.https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117225349620809512https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2096657477928448250>The president posted again several hours later, with what appeared to be an A.I. video of him placing a label with the word “America” over “Mexico” on a “Welcome to New Mexico” road sign. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117226720070374585
>Mr. Trump frequently uses social media to troll his perceived adversaries. His posts quickly drew criticism from officials in New Mexico, a Democratic-led state.>“New Mexico’s name isn’t up for debate — it’s been ours since before the United States existed,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham wrote on social media.>Representative Melanie Stansbury was more blunt: “Oh hell no!” she wrote on X, adding, “Our state’s name carries generations of history, culture, and family — and it belongs to us.”>The origins of New Mexico’s name predate the founding of the United States. In the 16th century, Mexicans called the territory north and west of the Rio Grande “New Mexico,” according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.>The state’s name is also written into Article 1 of its Constitution: “The name of this state is New Mexico, and its boundaries are as follows,” the first page reads.>New Mexico’s two Democratic senators also pushed back on Mr. Trump’s post. “Three things I will always call by their actual names …” Senator Martin Heinrich wrote on X, before listing the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario and New Mexico.>On the day Mr. Trump returned to office last year, he signed an executive order directing the federal government to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The name “has a beautiful ring,” the president said that month.>Last month, amid an escalating trade fight with Canada, Mr. Trump signed another executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Days before signing the order, the president had posted an image of a map with Lake Ontario crossed out with a red X, as well as an A.I. video of himself replacing a Lake Ontario sign with “Lake America.”
>Those executive orders, however, dealt with geographic features, not the legal name of a state. The changes were carried out through the federal Geographic Names Information System and apply only to federal usage, including on maps and documents, but they do not bind state and local governments or private mapmakers.>Rhode Island offers a recent example of how different the process for changing the legal name of a state can be. In June 2020, amid nationwide protests over systemic racism after the killing of George Floyd, the state moved to drop “and Providence Plantations” from its formal name. Gov. Gina Raimondo, a Democrat, ordered the phrase be removed from executive-branch documents and websites while acknowledging that changing the state’s official name required voters to amend the Rhode Island Constitution. Voters approved the change that fall.
trump also made more posts on his website about it today. I think these were after the article was published:https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117230285873578557https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117230284809569676https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117230284258203326https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117230283736923381https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117230283130523500https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117230282596836117https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117230281885623312
>>1534996>Where is New America?>Well its in Old America>Technically speaking there are parts of Old America that are older than New AmericaWe really should just leave names of geographical locations to the locals, holy fuck.
>>1534996>Midterms in less than two months>Diesel prices at ATH, gas over a dollar per gallon more than it was in February>In month seven of retarded sandbox war that was only supposed to last three weeks>Beef prices at historic highs>Republicans trailing in the polls and panicking, looking at potentially losing both houses of Congress>President who caused all of it is babbling about renaming New Mexico and posting AI slop of himself arm wrestling Hulk Hogan and hanging out with George WashingtonThis is the best timeline
>>1535001not really but maybe it’s the one we deserve when a solid 1/3 of the electorate are subhuman retards
>>1535001>Republican Strategy Meeting:>"Ok. Iran? Not popular. The gas prices? Even less popular. Now the farmers are pissed too and none of our culture war distractions are working, but I think if we can just cause enough infighting in the left we can scrape by keeping one house.">"Sir Trump's going off about renaming New Mexico to New America.">*Deep sigh* "Ok look, this is stupid but it's not unexpected. We weren't gonna win New Mexico anyway so it shouldn't be too bad-">"Annnnd now he's falsely claiming to be a 9/11 survivor after he refused to attend the annual Ground Zero ceremony.">"...Can he shut the FUCK UP FOR TWO FUCKING MONTHS???"
>>1535004I love that even in his bullshit made up story about heroically rushing in to help at Ground Zero, the brag still ends with him saying "The firefighters tried to carry me out but I walked by myself like a big boy!"
>>1535001A couple bucks at the gas station is a cheap price to pay for a clean consciousI don't care if the price of gas reaches $15 an hour I drive a teslahttps://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/03/08/stephen_colbert_on_high_gas_prices_ill_pay_15_a_gallon_because_i_drive_a_tesla.html
>>1535009nothing like killing hundreds of schoolgirls with missiles to clean the conscious out
>>1535010aww, don't hit ESL shill while they're downstart kicking
>>1535010They weren't American. Probably ESL too.
>>1535009>clean conscious>gas reaches $15 an hourThis is how to shitpost, folks.
>>1535014>Probably ESL too.Genuinely what the fuck do you mean by that. "The girls raised in a non-english speaking country were probably ESL." Literally what the fuck are you talking about you mental invalid?
>>1535009You realize fuel cost directly affects the price of all goods, right? Trump has put tariffs on goods and now moving them around costs more. He hate America. I can't believe people support him and his shit.
>>1535027ESL shill doesn't really speak english, they just cargo cult insults and hope for the best
>>1534996New Mississippi should be it's new name.
>>1535031As if you could believe it before for whatever reason.
>>1535015Colbert was one of the alltime great shitposters
>>1535071not the point. the point is that the poster confused concious with conscience, and dollars per gallon with dollars per hour. If you didn't catch that, then you are an ESL shill as well.
>>1535010>>1535011I doubt the esl shill 1535009 has any form of consciousness, least of all a conscience.1535009>clean conscious>conscious>inb4 "grammar nazi", "context" etcThe esl shill was never conscious enough to get out of bed to get on the short bus, least of all any bus to travel to English classes, unlike everyone else who conscientiously got up at the appropriate time to actually go to school/college.
>>1534996its offensive that deep fried potatoes are still being referred to under their foreigner name.
>>1535009i buy electricity by the pound. tomorrow i get pudding.
>>1535071Liggerals aren't capable of shit posting. The liggerals role is to defend the MSM Big government establishment. It is not possible for them to be counterculture
>>1535027They were subhuman. Not worth the time or energy to worry about.
>>1535009lol you know the russian shills are getting desperate when they're quoting fucking colbert
>>1535257How is repeating Colbert's words shilling for Russia?Is repeating a Stewart joke shilling for Israel? Linking the Chapelle show a sign of shilling for moving back to Africa?
>>1535086trolling is a art
>>1534996how about new beaners instead
