"I said, ‘Sundar, I’m thinking of the Atlantic Ocean. Can you handle it?’

“‘No, no, no, this time I’m not doing it,’ he said, ‘Oceans are different, sir. They cover a lot of - really a lot of countries. Please don’t ask us to do that.’”

The US president later said he would “probably pass” and keep the name Atlantic, before saying, “We’re going to call it the American Ocean”.

  • DigDoug@lemmy.world
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    It’s got to the point that I’m just hoping the rest of the world loses enough respect to finally tell America to get fucked. Letting them do pretty much whatever they want since the end of WWII has been a disaster.

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      Letting them do pretty much whatever they want since the end of WWII has been a disaster.

      You might have heard of “the Marshall plan”. It was not too bad