There are some things we change daily. Underwear comes immediately to mind.

And, while perhaps not daily, it’s a good idea — and sometimes just fun — to make small changes to our routines . . . maybe a different breakfast cereal, a more scenic route to work in the morning, or a new hair style.

But the world map is not underwear. It’s not cereal, or a haircut. Yet Donald Trump keeps trying to remake it as though it were his own plaything.

First it was renaming the Gulf of Mexico, calling it — for whatever reason (ego? a power trip?) — the Gulf of America. As though Mexico doesn’t matter.

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Then he said the U.S. should simply take over Gaza and turn it into another Trump-themed playground for the world’s rich and famous. As though the Palestinians don’t matter.

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He’s also in favor of renaming the Persian Gulf, instead calling it the Arabian Gulf, or Gulf of Arabia. As though the entire history of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire never mattered.

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He’s threatening to steal Greenland from Denmark. Clearly, the lives of the Greenlanders don’t matter . . . to him.

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He keeps trying to persuade Canadians that they’d be better off as part of the United States. Fat chance there!

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He wants to reclaim the Panama Canal Zone on the spurious ground that he’d be protecting it from a takeover by China. Excuse me?

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And with all of that, I have to wonder . . . could this be next:

The United States of Trumplandia?

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Sorry, but my only reaction is . . .

“What the f*ck??!!!”

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
5/8/25