Trump wants to relabel New Mexico as New America days after changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake Ameria
Donald Trump has already changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, and now he’s targeting a US state for a rebrand.
Trump is spending the holiday weekend dreaming up his next demand to relabel America’s geography. He posted a map on Truth Social Sunday afternoon of New Mexico, but the word Mexico was crossed out and replaced with America.
Relabeling the southwestern state on the U.S.-Mexico border as New America is reminiscent of an executive order he signed early in his second term, in which he changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
I find it slightly ironic that “America” is derived from Amerigo, as in Amerigo Vespucci, a in an Italian. As in, someone not from America. But then again, roughly 96% of us aren’t “from here”. Anti immigration perhaps, but not anti conquest somehow.
I personally wouldn’t mind if we renamed “America” to “Dollywood.”