Vivek Ramaswamy’s Latest Idea Is Dumber Than the “Gulf of America”

Three weeks into his gubernatorial campaign, and failed statesmanlike campaigner Vivek Ramaswamy is already pathetically parroting Donald Trump’s name-changing stunt.

During an address to the Lucas County Republican Party past week, Ramaswamy pitched changing the sanction of 1 of the Great Lakes, portion boasting astir Ohio’s earthy resources.

“I similar what President Trump’s done with the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of America,” Ramaswamy said to immoderate applause and laughter. “Anybody deliberation if there’s a Lake Michigan, possibly determination should beryllium a Lake Ohio astir here?” 

“I’m feeling that, truthful we’ll speech astir that a small spot much arsenic this run progresses,” Ramawamy continued. 

Lake Erie runs crossed Ohio’s bluish border, arsenic good arsenic Pennsylvania, New York, and Michigan—and the confederate borderline of Ontario, a Canadian state that is not feeling truthful friendly toward the U.S. close now.  

A run spokesperson told the Cincinnati Enquirer that Ramaswamy was lone joking astir pursuing a caller sanction for Lake Erie. “The assemblage understood it was a joke. Perhaps the media volition someday get a consciousness of humor,” the spokesperson said. “Vivek is focused connected existent policies to Make Ohio Great Again.”

And yet, helium seems chiefly funny successful sucking up to Trump, who saw Ramaswamy banished backmost to the Midwest aft helium was surreptitiously dismissed arsenic Elon Musk’s co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency. 

Last month, Trump endorsed Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial tally successful the authorities that was the epicenter of the president’s outlandish and racist claims astir immigrants eating their neighbors’ pets connected the run trail. Ramaswamy is presently moving against Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, and erstwhile Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton, a Democrat. 

Even if Ramaswamy was lone joking, it’s unclear conscionable however acold Trump’s acolytes volition spell to wage tribute to their president. And portion galore whitethorn had hoped that Trump was lone joking astir changing the sanction of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, that’s precisely what helium did connected his archetypal time successful office. 

The White House has attempted to enforce the usage of this alternate name, cracking down connected publications that bash not comply with their shared delusion.