House Republicans have ignited a firestorm with a proposed bill that would rename the vast coastal waters encircling the United States after former President Donald Trump. The legislation, spearheaded by Florida Representative Greg Steube, seeks to rebrand the US Exclusive Economic Zone as the “Donald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States.”
Covering an expansive 4.3 million nautical miles, this zone extends up to 200 nautical miles from the US territorial sea baseline and includes territories of the United States, according to the National Ocean Service.
The move has drawn fierce criticism, especially in light of Trump’s controversial environmental record.
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Despite the bill’s audacious nature, its prospects in a Democratically controlled Senate appear bleak. Nevertheless, Steube plans to introduce the legislation today, coinciding with what would have been Trump’s 78th birthday.
In addition to proposing the renaming of coastal waters, Republican lawmakers previously suggested renaming the Washington-Dulles International Airport after Trump.
Conversely, Congressional Democrats have countered with proposals to rename a federal prison in Florida after Trump, who faces a litany of legal challenges, including allegations related to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
Immediate mandatory drug testing for Congress
They’ll test positive for Trump’s taint
coinciding with what would have been Trump’s 78th birthday.
Did I miss something?
Too goddamn early in the day for them to get my hopes up like that. Probably just meant Trump either forgot or lied about when his birthday is.
TRUMP DIES
But
AN OCEAN GETS NAMED AFTER HIM
Will you press the button?
Hell yeah!
He can get the Confederate treatment later.
Besides, it’s not like the embarrassment of a stupidly named coastal zone could ever be any more harmful than the most powerful nation in the history of the world becoming a fascist autocracy even IF the name is permanent!
An ocean? That’s where we store our garbage. We should do it.
“The bill also decrees that Trump is immortal and his age in years is meaningless.” I wouldn’t put it past them to add something like that.
I was so happy for a moment there 😄
If I ever find the damn butterfly that caused this bullshit
I’m blaming a weasel.
I’m sold
When I’ve run out of words to express my horror at the turn of events, or find out that yet another world altering problem is the result of a decision made well before I was born that put profits or power over morals, I fall back to “I just need a time machine and a shotgun.”
Honestly, I probably wouldn’t just go blasting through the prime directive, but I’d definitely tell Gerald Ford what pardoning Nixon unleashed. And if I didn’t come back to swim in the thriving coral beaches in President Gore’s exclusive economic zone, I’m gonna mentor teenage Ronald Reagan to be a race car driver, and teach 1970’s Trump how stock options work with the hopefulness, enthusiasm and knowledge of a WSB YOLO investor.
Removed by mod
Yes, but they rarely survive a leadership change, and Trump is getting noticeably worse.
I think the US needs to survive this election circle and can than focus on actually improving the system
This kind of abuse of the legislature should be fined. What the fuck.
This is a dead cat.
Is it also alive until I read the article
Unfortunately being aware of the dead cat is part of the dead cat strategy. It’s only alive if you aren’t aware of it.
They should all change their names to trump.
When I was little, I mixed up the words “president” and “Reagan”, thinking the latter was the title. I felt sorta vindicated with he hero worship the man got in the neocon and tea party years.
But now, even though it should be an epithet akin to “Benedict Arnold” or “Quisling”, I would not be surprised if “Trump” became a sort of title similar to “Caesar” and its variants.
Maybe just a swamp?
A lake of pigshit
At least make him pay you for sucking him off.
What
“coinciding with what would have been Trump’s 78th birthday”
Did I miss something important recently ?
Congress needs to do some research on Twitter to see how well name changes work.
Today after reading this I’m sure I’m taking crazy pills…
most trump related ones aren’t very oniony but this one is actually pretty good
I can’t wait for Trump to release the new calendar that he designed.
