This is such an odd story, because for the Gulf of Mexico/America and Lake Ontario/America, he issued executive orders under authority of the president. But now it seems like he spoke to the Google CEO directly and casually asked for the change.

It's odd because you know both Google and Apple will comply if Trump actually issues an executive order. He can do that. He can name all the oceans after himself, his country, his children, or whatever he wants. And American companies will toe the line. Maybe it's Google's turn to present him with a participation trophy this time. Anyway, it has no bearing on what other countries call things.

If I didn't think Trump was an imbecile — which I do — I would suggest maybe he was joking. But it's more likely he forgot he needs an executive order (or forgot he hasn't issued it yet) and just asked as if he had.

The Ocean of Epstein Files

I think I'll rename the water in my toilet bowl the Lake of Trump.

Why would Google get to rename an ocean?

FUCK THESE MASSIVE CORPS!!! BURN THEM TO THE FUCKING GROUND!!!!

I really thought I opened the "not the onion" community

I love how instead of saying, “no,” he said “please don’t ask us to do that.” What a fucking pussy.

Stop using corporate trash. Use coMaps and put in the effort to contribute!

Change starts small and grows with the people.

This is the fakest conversation I’ve ever heard.

First, Sundar would gargle Trump’s soiled diaper if Trump asked. Second, there’s just no way Pichai was like “no that touches too many countries, oceans are too hard”. Also, Trump don’t know non US maps aren’t actually changed except the parenthetical. It’s literally an update to the locale mapping an intern could do. Maybe that was a subtle fuck off, but see point 1.

Is the implication that he called Google before renaming the Gulf (but really only the US) and trying to rename Lake Ontario, because that’s never been the story. So why is he calling them now, and why does whether Google thinks it’s hard matter?

So I’m calling it now: fake lies from the pedophile.

As soon as the democrats are in power, they should instantly start breaking up these big corps (among many other things like ranked-choice voting and, y'know, trying and convicting all the criminals in the admin).

The conversation with Sundar never happened. We know this because Sundar would have immediately said "Yes, sir! Whatever you want, sir!" He has never said no to Trump and never will. This is because Sundar is pure evil.

"No, no, no. This time I'm not doing it ... Oceans are different, sir. They cover ... a lot of countries. Please don't ask us to do that."

So Google was perfectly fine with screwing over Mexico and Canada. Good to know. I hope the Mexican and Canadian federal governments are paying attention.

There is a zero percent chance that call actually happened at all.

Either he imagined/dreamed it and can't tell the difference or just fucking lying because why would he not?

Oh good I’m sure this will fix the economy, give us affordable housing and healthcare, end the wars in Ukraine, and Iran, and end the genocide is Palestine, and get the Epstein files fully released… hey America are we tired yet from all this winning?

"And when everything's America--" (evil laugh) "--nothing will be."

I'm slowly trying to untie myself from google. Most recently disabled Google maps because of their renaming stuff that shouldn't be.

Tomtom is working for me for now, I hopped around to a few different nav apps but landed there. Tried a few osm based ones but they were all pretty rough around the edges, middle and centers.

"We've renamed it the 'TRUMP-EPSTEIN Files Ocean. Thank you for this distraction."

We are getting into crazy grandpa territory here.

Can someone just kill him?

He’s also technically asked Canada and Greenland to rename themselves America too.

Honestly I would have rather Google renamed it. Just to really cement their legacy as bootlickers.

Also this just reeks of "hey see Google still has morals. They may have renamed the Gulf of Mexico and they may have renamed Lake Ontario but by God they know the oceans are sacred so they can't be that bad." I bet they paid Trump to specifically say this.

I mean I don't have that much love for Google, but I gotta feel bad for Sundar Pichai. Here's a guy just trying to run his company, and the (supposed) leader of the free world calls- not about something important, not about a threat to the Internet, not about the future of online policy, but about renaming an ocean on a whim.

And it's your job to talk him down.

I could see him saying like 'secretary, cancel the rest of my day, I need to go home and cry for the future of the country'.