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OMG, NO MEANS NO! Trump reveals he personally called Google's CEO about renaming the Atlantic Ocean to TRUMP OCEAN and got a SPECTACULARLY appropriate rejection!
It looks like Google has finally grown some cojones.
Up until now, the tech giant has blissfully complied with Donald Trump’s lunatic renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario in its Google Maps applications.
But now, Trump has told supporters at a South Carolina rally Wednesday that he called Google CEO Sundar Pichai and asked whether the company could handle renaming the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean the “Trump Ocean.”
Trump recounted the conversation, laughing: “I said, Sundar, I’m thinking of the Atlantic Ocean, can you handle it?” Pichai, by Trump’s telling, replied: “No, no, no, this time I’m not doing it. Oceans are different, sir, they cover really a lot of countries. Please don’t ask us to do that.”
So, Trump will “probably pass.” He asked the crowd, “Should I pass? I think let’s keep it the Atlantic Ocean, right?” Google hasn’t confirmed the conversation took place.
The egomaniacal Trump’s obsession with arbitrarily changing the long-established names of major geographical features isn’t just a one-off thing. Earlier this month in Tennessee, Trump said he wanted to add a river and an ocean to the list of places he’d rename before leaving office, floating “Trump Ocean” or “Ocean of the Americas.”
He’s also floated a “Trump Strait” for the Strait of Hormuz. In January 2025, he signed an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” and in August 2026 he did the same to Lake Ontario, calling it “Lake America.” Google updated its maps for U.S. users in both cases, while Canadians still see Lake Ontario. The company says its policy follows official government sources.
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names, which standardizes names for federal use, generally discourages changes without a compelling reason. Its standard domestic policy also prohibits naming geographic features after living people, though names set by executive order or Congress may be handled differently.
Only a man as deep into dementia as Donald Trump would focus on this kind of priority while Americans are dealing with the cost of living, an unfinished war in Iran, and a FEMA chief telling states to handle disasters on their own.
Meanwhile, the president is on the phone with the CEO of Google asking whether the Atlantic Ocean can be renamed in his honor.
Hopefully, Trump hasn’t lost so much of his grey matter that he doesn’t realize that he’s gone too far this time. The world’s oceans may be safe from his megalomania for now, but only because Google had the good sense to say no to a raging narcissist.

BREAKING: IT NEVER ENDS! Jared Kushner faces EXTRAORDINARY new corruption allegations involving shady secret accounts, foreign governments, and BILLIONS of dollars.
New evidence of the incredible depth of corruption in the Trump White House has emerged, this time implicating Dementia Donnie’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner A/K/A Mr. Ivanka Trump.
A Vanity Fair excerpt from a new book — PRINCES AND THIEVES: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East by Matthew Cole — makes some of the most explosive allegations yet about Kushner’s time in White House.
The excerpt alleges that starting in 2017, the leaders of the UAE and Saudi Arabia contributed to an account, called “Alpha,” at a UAE government-funded charity, the Watani Al Emarat Foundation. One confidential source with direct knowledge says the charity doubled as cover for moving money for the UAE’s secret military and intelligence operations overseas. Kushner was allegedly made a signatory on the account.
Cole cites four senior Trump administration officials, including two national security advisers, a White House chief of staff and a former CIA director. They say Trump was unaware of any presidential authorization for Kushner to access a foreign government bank account. Being unaware seems to be Trump’s default setting.
The book also alleges that by spring 2018, the UAE’s crown prince moved roughly $1 billion to Israel via Azerbaijan into a second account, “Beta,” meant to go to Kushner. A person briefed on it says the money was for Kushner’s personal benefit, that Netanyahu encouraged depositing it in Israel’s Central Bank, and that Kushner had to tell Netanyahu before making any transactions.
One person who helped move the money says much of it went on to Cyprus. A third account allegedly served as a defense fund tied to Israel helping defend the UAE against Iran.
Here are the legal stakes according to the excerpt: as a White House official, Kushner had to disclose any bank account he could access, and unreported access to the Alpha account may have violated U.S. law. A former Mueller prosecutor says that if Kushner promised anything in return, even just speaking to his father-in-law, it could implicate federal bribery and foreign agent laws.
Kushner’s side says none of this happened. His counsel said, “There are no accounts and never were,” denied any knowledge of the charity or its leader, and said he complied with all legal requirements. His lawyer denied that Kushner broke any laws in the White House. Ambassador David Friedman, also named in the alleged scheme, called the allegations about him “100% false.”
While these may be yet-to-be-proven allegations built largely on anonymous sourcing, they land while CREW is suing to force Kushner to file the financial disclosures that he has skipped as an envoy in Trump’s second term. Also, remember that Kushner’s investment firm, Affinity, is funded almost entirely by foreign investors.
Accusations like this practically beg for answers that only a congressional investigation may be able to provide. If Kushner has nothing to hide, he should welcome a full accounting. But don’t expect that to happen unless Democrats take control of at least one chamber of Congress.
All the more reason to make sure that you vote to help launch that blue wave!

that many can participate in on different levels.

youre right. its the beauty of our sport.
I'd like to own the Yankees and hang out on the field with my players, but I can't.

But I can buy a racehorse and be involved in caring for my equine athelete, groom her, rig her, jog her and watch her compete on race day. I can even get an ameteur license and race her myself...
For a city boy who watched races for years, getting involved in a couple of exhibition races (jog carts, no whips) was as exhilarating an experience I've had..
And even though everybody on this site has a different story, we fell in love with the sport.

And then there were more bad races, low payoffs, more potent PEDs, less respect for our horses...
The lovers of the sport becaume skeptics, cynics, and bitter.
Some left the sport....and all landed on horseplop 
the decline of the fan base , respect for the races , disgruntled gamblers and fans have left harness racing no longer self sufficient, dependent on state subsidies racing at tracks owned by gaming corps that could care less about racing.

Harness racing did it to itself, but it doesn't make it any less sad or painful

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