"I said, ‘Sundar, I’m thinking of the Atlantic Ocean. Can you handle it?’

“‘No, no, no, this time I’m not doing it,’ he said, ‘Oceans are different, sir. They cover a lot of - really a lot of countries. Please don’t ask us to do that.’”

The US president later said he would “probably pass” and keep the name Atlantic, before saying, “We’re going to call it the American Ocean”.

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    Dude, this isn’t the movies. Going against the strongest military in the world isn’t an option.

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      It’s yet to be seen which side the military will fall on. That’s what’s going to matter.

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        It’s hard to say. I never thought in a million years so many republicans of all levels, would bend the knee so fast.

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          I remember GHW Bush’s campaign co-opting “family values”. In hindsight, this has been a long time coming.