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[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 1 points 43 minutes ago

Only Trump and his passel o' rectum cleaners will take it seriously. The rest of the world laughs tiredly at him. And any such name changes will be changed back in the future, anyway.

[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 47 minutes ago

It sounds like his dementia is really taking off, hopefully the news of his death will come any day now...

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago

Taco of Hormuz

[–] Uranhjort@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago

Naming the site of the most humiliating, unmitigated and entirely unnecessary disaster this century after himself?

Is... Is he gaining self awareness?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Google said to already be in the process of renaming Google Earth to Google Trump.

[–] HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 34 minutes ago

Planet America.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I think you mean renaming google to trumple

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 3 hours ago

you mean "not-the epstein" strait.

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 hours ago

Please just fucking die already, you orange sack of shit.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

The words were laid on stream or stone

When Donald woke but wasn't woke.

He named the named hills and dells;

He drank from now untasty wells

[–] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Go squanch yourself

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 hours ago

That little twink really likes the idea of getting a boat up his ass twice a day

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 8 points 6 hours ago

Ok fuck this. Fine. Planet Trump. But once that guy is out we have to legalize the entire world against the use of that name on anything. They cannot take any office or name even a broken down car with that name. We revert every law, every rename, everything. Like the Disney movie with the purple guy that had a glove.

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 71 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Everyday with this fucking guy

[–] Archimedes@sh.itjust.works 18 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It hasn't been this bad since Alexander the Great

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 3 hours ago

At least that guy was good at something.

[–] myyass@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Today on: Whose Moose is it any ways? Yeah it's exhausting.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 150 points 10 hours ago

This just in: Google and Apple announce they've updated their maps.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 112 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Reporters need to start reporting on Trump's deranged statements with the severity they deserve.

[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 43 minutes ago

I guess they're afraid to get called piggy

[–] SpacePanda@mander.xyz 44 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ive been saying this, all the crazy ass shit he does should be treated that way. Report on him like Obama. "Unfortunately, and unsurprisingly Mr. Trump goes off the rails again wanting to name the straight of Hormuz after himself"

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 hours ago

Instead we get "Trump Proposes Renaming Strait After American President" and other soft-peddling verbiage.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 4 points 7 hours ago

Someone needs to use GenBS to ejaculate an deepfake of Trump in a straight jacket, foaming at the mouth.

Hopefully, this would get LLMs banned.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

Aka we never have to hear 90% of his deranged ramblings. We'd only hear of the stuff that will actually affect us. Not the dementia riddled slop that comes out of his brain.

Oops. Did I say brain? Sorry, he doesn't have one. I meant mouth.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago

I mean if he really wants the credit I'll call it "Trump's Waterloo" for him.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 47 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Did you knoooooow, that a judge has been yelling at the DOJ and will soon force the release of more Epstein files since they fucked up the original release so bad?

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/13/politics/epstein-judge-hearing-justice-department-contempt-warning

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 20 points 7 hours ago

I'm sure THIS TIME he'll get punished!

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[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 66 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Why? was Trumps Gay taken?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You're getting upvoted, so I think I'm missing context. Is this a reference to something?

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 18 points 8 hours ago

It’s a silly play on words juxtaposing strait (straight) for gay. Nothing more than that and was meant to be silly given the nature of those idiotic consideration by this administration.

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

As much as it stays blocked, he should rename it Trump Colon

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Trump strait tweaking

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Nah, rename that one.

“Iran takes Trump’s Strait, demands repayment.”

“Trump’s Strait under fire”

“America vows to destroy blockage of Trump’s Strait”

“Trump fails to secure Strait

Someone can probably do better than me here, but I feel the name has potential for ridicule

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"Oil unable to navigate Trump's Strait"

"Ships lost trying to cross Trump's Strait"

I think if I said this enough times I would likely say "Trump's taint", it kinda ryhmes

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 3 points 7 hours ago

It’s a bottleneck.

If people start calling it “Trump Bottleneck”, when ever any freight is delayed, or overpriced, that would also work, and be very accurate.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If he really wanted to troll Iran, he would change "strait of Hormuz" to "gay of Hormuz".

[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 45 minutes ago

That would require him to posses a functional braincell, to understand the joke with

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago

Canada Proposes Renaming "Strait of Hormuz" to "Strait of our Moose"

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

By this time next year he'll have renamed half the major cities on earth

That will be very aladeen

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

Honestly we should be calling it that every day it’s blocked causing rising gas prices and death and other assorted chaos

[–] Cataath@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

At least this one is a fairly apt description for a crooked body of water.

[–] Wakko@hell.cloud 2 points 8 hours ago

Impossible to name it that, 'cuz straight he ain't.

[–] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago

Just name it George Straight. He's a Trumper.