A New Name

Trump’s best idea was to ask why that big body of water surrounded by Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas is called the “Gulf of Mexico.” It makes total sense to call it the “Gulf of America.”

Leftist elites have been feverishly working for decades to make America “smaller” in every possible way they can. Shrinking America is a constant theme of the left. They want to shrink our economy, shrink our opportunities, shrink our confidence, and shrink our patriotism.

“How dare you think that we should secure our borders!”

“Who are we to insist that Europe pay more for its defense?”

“How dare you insist textbooks should say America is an exceptional nation without which the world would be a hellhole. That’s indoctrination. You can’t say that!”

So, they’re all shocked when someone like Donald Trump comes along and says, “Without America, it would be called the Gulf of Germany, or the Gulf of Russia, or whatever foreign power conquered North America.”

It certainly wasn’t Mexico that kept the gulf surrounded by freedom, except for the little communist hellhole Cuba. (I still hope to see a truly free Cuba.)

Besides, liberals are running around renaming everything in ways that promote their agenda, like Mount McKinley, Columbus Day, and schools named after George Washington.

So, why can’t we rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America?