Donald J. Trump spoke to our troops in Japan as if he were holding a rally, even though the military is supposed to be nonpartisan. The septuagenarian president fabricated numbers, pushed his big lie about the 2020 election, falsely claimed that “grocery prices are way down,” told the troops to “go out and buy a Toyota,” called out the “fake news,” and falsely claimed that Biden said he used to be a pilot. And that’s the short list. He also launched an incoherent rant about the “Golf of America” as he quickly moved from topic to topic.
“Gulf to what is now known as the Gulf of America,” he said to his captive audience. “Is it nice? They say it now routinely. I heard the news today, the Gulf of America weather is one.”
“They don’t say it with a smile,” he continued. “It’s called the Gulf of America. How did that happen? Right.”
“And it took me, you know, for many years, I said, why is it called the Gulf of Mexico when we seem to have the show?” he said. “Well, we do. We have 92% of the shoreline.
“So I said, you know, when we make it back, not if, when too big to rig, we made it too big to rig,” he continued. “I said, get out and vote too big to rig. Make it that way. I said, I’m going to change it. And one of the first things I did is I changed it. Nobody could even fight it. They tried.”
“We got sued all over the place,” he said. “We won every suit. And it’s now officially the Gulf of America. Isn’t that nice?”
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