Trump revealed that he had sounded Pichai about his desire to rechristen the Atlantic Ocean
Because it touched numerous countries, not just the United States, by MAGA boss Donald Trump’s own account, the Google CEO rejected his effort to rename the ocean after himself.
The Google honcho, according to Trump, told him, “No no no…this time I am not doing it…please don’t ask us to do that” — because oceans are different from other water bodies in that they skirt many countries. Google has not publicly confirmed Trump’s account, which increasingly sound hyperbolic or highly embellished, earning him the sobriquet “Dementia Don” from critics. TOI correspondent from Washington: The Atlantic Ocean may owe its continued existence, at least under its present name, to Sundar Pichai . The episode is the latest installment in the U.S President’s increasingly ambitious campaign to make the world’s geography reflect his understanding of American greatness, which appears to require that the U.S not merely lead the world but also get naming rights over its water bodies.
At a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday, Trump revealed that he had sounded Pichai about his desire to rechristen the Atlantic Ocean and asked him if he can handle it.
Google Maps has adopted the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley labels for users in the U.S in line with federal naming changes. At a rally in Kentucky last week, Trump boasted that Google had once ignored him but now followed his wishes, declaring that the company was “kissing my ass. The remark was vintage Trump: crude, triumphant and revealing. The MAGA supremo presented a change in mapping labels as evidence not merely of administrative compliance but of corporate submission, scenes of which he has been rolling out with relish at the White House.