It’s been two months since Donald Trump changed the name of a landmark, institution, or geographic feature, and he’s clearly itching to rebrand something. Earlier this week, the president renewed his call for New Mexico to “immediately change its name to New America” in a post on Truth Social:

As we learned when Trump first raised the idea in early September, this isn’t actually going to happen. The president has the power to direct federal agencies to use names like the “Gulf of America” and “Lake America.” And he successfully bullied tech executives into making those changes in their map apps, too. But he can’t simply inform a state that it now has an entirely different name. As the New York Times noted, he has no legal authority to do so, and in this case the state constitution says, “The name of this state is New Mexico,” before laying out its boundaries.

At a Wednesday-night rally in South Carolina, Trump suggested he’d moved on and was looking for other things to rename. He revealed he’d called up Sundar Pichai and floated the idea of renaming the Atlantic Ocean, but the Google CEO talked him out of it.

​“I only like two oceans: the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean,” the president said. “I’m not gonna put either ‘Trump’ or ‘America’ on any other ocean but these two.”

Trump continued, “So we seriously looked at the........

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