If you thought Donald Trump’s plans for world domination would stop at unhinged threats to take over Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, think again. The president-elect fully entered his imperialism era on Tuesday, announcing offhandedly that he’s changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “the Gulf of America.”

The press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday morning was ostensibly about his economic agenda, but Trump played all the hits, trashing windmills, President Biden, electric heaters, special counsel Jack Smith, and various federal judges. Then, amid meandering criticisms of the United States’ neighbors, Trump mentioned, “We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America”:

We’re going to be announcing at a future date, pretty soon, we’re going to change, because we do most of the work........

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