Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) drew mockery on Tuesday for accidentally doing one thing she claims to be furiously against.
Namely, referring to the body of water that President Donald Trump has controversially decreed shall now be called the “Gulf of America” by its name of hundreds of years, the Gulf of Mexico.
Greene’s gaffe came on the Elon Musk-owned platform X, formerly Twitter, when she hyped the upcoming presentation of her bill, the Gulf of America Act, which she hopes will “codify President Trump’s executive order” renaming the water.
“Mexican cartels currently use the Gulf of Mexico to traffic humans, drugs, weapons, and God knows what else while the Mexican government allows them to do it,” the firebrand lawmaker alleged, using the Trump-banned name.
“The rightful name is the Gulf of America and it’s what the entire world should call it,” she added.
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Greene later edited her post so that the second paragraph just referenced “the Gulf” rather than her original “Gulf of Mexico” line, which would have betrayed Trump’s demand.
But the original post remained online, archived.
And the internet didn’t forget.
And some critics suggested there were more pressing issues at hand.