Washington DC—A couple of witty activists spun up a rebrand of Trump’s DC area International Golf Course Country Club with a giant banner on Saturday, renaming it the “Golf of Mexico.” They welcomed anyone who may happen to join the president today for a round at his to posh club—in Spanish with a warm “Bienvenidos!”
Their act of defiance went straight to the heart of all the chaos and ego driven silliness surrounding Trump’s rebranding of the Gulf of Mexico. It also poked fun at and split wide open the issues underlying his policies and treatment of migrants.
The ongoing first Amendment right of a free press and the court battle between Trump and the Associated Press for refusing to acknowledge the renaming of the body of water is a far more serious matter.
Trump has so far managed to keep the AP out of the West Wing press pool and off of Air Force One based solely on their refusal to comply with his arbitrary rebrand of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”
All other major U.S. news outlets have conceded to Trump’s demand to rename the body of water to the Gulf of America. AP is the only news agency barred from the West Wing and from Air Force One and in its court filing stated it would be “irreparably damaged” by this bar.
Video credit: GolfofMexico.bsky.social
