Trump's move to rename the Gulf of Mexico and force platforms and media to cover it as such is a (likely strategic) demonstration of his power to (re)construct reality.
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First, he warps language, then he warps reality—ask anyone who’s lived under a regime that made truth illegal. The power to rename is the power to rewrite, whether it's history, geography, or truth itself. Today, it’s a body of water. Tomorrow, it’s the past. Next, he'll want it to be us.
Cult leaders often tell increasingly outlandish ideas to their true believers. This is to not only shift the overton window of what is acceptable, but to dissociate them from reality in order to prep them for brain breaking changes they would have previously not accepted.
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