I promise this one is short, and I promise it’s real.
At a rally in Georgia, the President of the United States told the crowd he called Google about renaming an ocean after himself. The Atlantic or the Pacific, he wasn’t picky. He says he even sent them a map that said “The Trump Ocean.”
According to Trump, Google’s answer was: “We’ve had it. That’s enough. We’re not doing it anymore.”
Then, he says, they called back to explain: “Sir, look, OK, this one we can’t do. Oceans are different. Oceans cover many, many countries.”
He says he was only kidding, and nobody knows for sure whether the call happened. But I’ll admit I smiled, because for once, somebody told him no.
This is the same president who renamed the Gulf of Mexico and ordered federal agencies to call Lake Ontario “Lake America.” Google went along with both. An ocean is apparently where they drew the line.
Here’s what stuck with me. “We’ve had it. That’s enough.” is a pretty good message. Google got to send it once. On November 3, voters get to send it to every Republican in Congress who has let him do whatever he wants for two years.
That’s what Equal Opportunity Now is working on in this final stretch: helping Democrats up and down the ballot win the House and Senate, so someone in Washington finally has the power to say no.
Google said “That’s enough.” Now it’s our turn. Chip in $10 or $30 right now and help us say it where it counts, at the ballot box.