On May 8, 2025, I wrote that “The World Is Not Underwear” . . . but that Donald Trump’s rampage to alter the world map had him choosing new targets as frequently as most of us change our skivvies.

In less than a year since then, his mad march has expanded, causing increasing alarm throughout the world. Here as a reminder is that earlier article again, with updates at the end to include Trump’s most recent forays into Soviet-style expansionism. If you think this is intended to scare you, you’re right . . . because it is something that cannot be ignored.

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“5/8/25: THE WORLD IS NOT UNDERWEAR

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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UPDATE

That was last May. In light of events since then, I have added the following to the list of Trump’s proposed alterations to the world’s geopolitical status quo:

> The invasion of Venezuela, kidnapping of its president and first lady, confiscation of its oil reserves, and assumption of control over the country’s regime change.

> Threatening Cuba with military intervention, while strangling the island nation’s already desperate economy.

> Continuing pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky to give away 20% of his country’s territory to Russia in order (if Putin keeps his word) to end the war, now in its fifth year . . . thus literally redrawing the borders of Russia and Ukraine.

> Domestically, he has been changing the landscape by gerrymandering — literally moving boundaries — in traditionally “blue” (heavily Democratic) states to favor Republican candidates; renaming or attempting to rename landmarks — the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington’s Dulles International Airport and New York’s Penn Station — after himself; and demolishing the East Wing of the White House itself to make room for an atrocious ballroom . . . also to bear his name, of course..

> And — most alarmingly — teaming up with Israel to wage all-out war on Iran, kill its leader, and . . .

. . . well, we don’t yet know where that’s going to lead, though it’s not looking good.

And he’s only 13 months into his term of office.

He is more treacherous than a loose cannon, or a runaway train with no engineer. He is . . . well, let’s face it: he is Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun and Vladimir Putin, rolled into one . . . but without the benefit of a functioning brain.

And he is in charge of the U.S. military and the nuclear codes.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
3/2/26