The hosts of The View discussed President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” on Thursday, during which one host went to bat to defend the move.
Former aide to Trump during his first term, Alyssa Farah Griffin, told the hosts table Thursday, “I don’t actually hate renaming the Gulf of America,” since “it’s a more inclusive term.” The conversation at hand, however, had been whether Trump was reasonable to have barred Associated Press reporters from White House events as retaliation for not reflecting his name change order in their style guide.
Griffin still used the opportunity to defend the previously much-ridiculed change. She explained, “It is North America. Mexico and the United States are part of the Americas. It would be petty if he called it the Gulf of the United States by basically saying it’s our country’s, it’s not yours.”
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