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[–] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 14 hours ago

Let's just rename earth to Uncle Trumpies Pervert Palace

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 19 hours ago

You know what, I am in favor. So that the world may remember how much of a stupid douche he was and how he thought that renaming it meant he won

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Orange clown speaks again. At least it didn't crash the stock market this time.

[–] Alexfire@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That's probably tomorrow, they sold today.

[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

😂😂😂😂😂😭

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Trump Strait

Says the man who gave blowjob to Bill Clinton.

[–] khepri@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

Honestly he should do it. Etch this embarrassment even deeper into the history books.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 22 points 23 hours ago

If Trump was strait, he wouldn't be blowing Bubba.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 13 points 21 hours ago

The trend of his megalomania is almost exactly tracking the trend of his dementia.

It's the disinhibition that goes with the squash rot.

[–] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 16 hours ago

At least hes owning up to his failure i guess.

Iran is gonna have a field day making puns about it.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Minor adjustment: 'Trump's Strait'

It has an Achilles' Heel ring to it.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

'Trump's Folly' seems more apt.

folly /fŏl′ē/ noun

  1. Lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight.

  2. An act or instance of foolishness.

  3. A costly undertaking having an absurd or ruinous outcome.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 16 points 21 hours ago

"Trump's Back Passage."

Because he claims to own it yet is unable to control it.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump proposes renaming Earth to Trumpland.

I can propose things too...

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] gnate@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I declare a thumb war!

But also bankruptcy.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 189 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This just in: Google and Apple announce they've updated their maps.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yet another reason OpenStreetMaps is superior

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

I'm trying to switch to osm exclusively. It's a little rough without an app (that I can find) that includes details (stops, schedule, eta) on nyc subway and bus lines.

[–] tremble5218@programming.dev 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

CoMaps is available on F-Droid and it works really well. There are little nuances like search not displaying the suburb for a street address, especially where I live, so it takes a bit of guessing. Overall though, offline, open source, great navigation, zero complaints.

Edit: fixed typo.

[–] pbhj@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Osmand app on Android is great for me (UK).

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 4 points 19 hours ago

I have bad luck with that in Barcelona as well, and often have to go to Maps or Here We Go.

That said, there's also overlays for OsmAnd+. The one I have for bike routes is much better than Google.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 hours ago

I believe that there are dedicated apps for transit that are as good as Google / Apple maps. This would require splitting into two apps to replace one, but at least you could move away from the major map apps without losing that very useful functionality for transit.

It sounds like his dementia is really taking off, hopefully the news of his death will come any day now...

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Ah shit! I put all my money on either "The Freedom Strait" or "The American Strait". I shoulda known.

[–] Uranhjort@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago

Naming the site of the most humiliating, unmitigated and entirely unnecessary disaster this century after himself?

Is... Is he gaining self awareness?

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 141 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Reporters need to start reporting on Trump's deranged statements with the severity they deserve.

[–] madmantis24@lemmy.wtf 2 points 17 hours ago

We're about ten years too late to make that train

[–] SpacePanda@mander.xyz 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ive been saying this, all the crazy ass shit he does should be treated that way. Report on him like Obama. "Unfortunately, and unsurprisingly Mr. Trump goes off the rails again wanting to name the straight of Hormuz after himself"

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 day ago

Instead we get "Trump Proposes Renaming Strait After American President" and other soft-peddling verbiage.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

A literally fucking cartoon villain

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Everyday with this fucking guy

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[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 👕

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Please just fucking die already, you orange sack of shit.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 2 points 11 hours ago

Yup. I used to want him to survive long enough to die in prison. Now I just want him tj fucking die. Fuck this orange turd rapist.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

The "Trump Strait" can not even be penetrated properly after using literally tons of explosives...

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Google said to already be in the process of renaming Google Earth to Google Trump.

Planet America.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Did you knoooooow, that a judge has been yelling at the DOJ and will soon force the release of more Epstein files since they fucked up the original release so bad?

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/13/politics/epstein-judge-hearing-justice-department-contempt-warning

[–] gogonan@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Oh right because court orders are always an effective mandate with this admin

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

I'm sure THIS TIME he'll get punished!

truckNotHittingBollard.gif

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[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 71 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why? was Trumps Gay taken?

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[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only Trump and his passel o' rectum cleaners will take it seriously. The rest of the world laughs tiredly at him. And any such name changes will be changed back in the future, anyway.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago

Only Trump and his passel o’ rectum cleaners will take it seriously.

I thought that passel was only Natalie Harpoontang.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

Canada Proposes Renaming "Strait of Hormuz" to "Strait of our Moose"

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