What’s in a name? Evidently, quite a lot.
As he flew over it on Feb. 9, President Donald Trump, by executive order, renamed the Gulf formerly known as Mexico as the Gulf of America. This, he said, is “even bigger than the Super Bowl,” which happened to be his destination at the time.
Trump has a penchant for naming. His towers, his businesses, his vodka, his shuttle, his university, his steaks, his sneakers and his memecoin are all named Trump.
Trump likes renaming, as well. When he ran for the presidency the second time, he promised to reverse the woke foolishness of the Biden administration by renaming Fort Liberty, in North Carolina, as Fort Bragg, the name it bore from 1918 to 2023.
Thus, for more than a century, Black Americans served at an Army base named in honor of Braxton Bragg, a slaveholder and second-rate Confederate general who fought to destroy the Union and keep Black soldiers’ ancestors enslaved.