Jared Huffman Trolls GOP Over 'Gulf Of America', Introduces Bill To Rename Earth To 'Trump'

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During a House Natural Resources Committee hearing prior to the congressional recess, Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) mocked his Republican colleagues for supporting legislation to rename the Gulf of Mexico into the "Gulf of America."

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00:00Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So, colleagues, if we are going to waste important committee

00:05time renaming major geographic features for one man's ego.

00:09Mr. Huffman, if you'll say without objection.

00:13Without objection, the amendment is considered as read.

00:17Now you're recognized.

00:18Now I'm recognized.

00:19All right.

00:20So, folks, if we're going to waste this committee's time just to glorify one man's ego, I propose

00:26that we at least be efficient about this, right?

00:28I mean, that's the theme of the day, efficiency from Doge and others.

00:33And so the great Wayne Gretzky once said, you don't skate to where the puck is, you skate

00:37to where it's going to be.

00:40And my amendment tries to do that.

00:42I mean, why do all of this trump glorification in a piecemeal manner?

00:48Why not cut to the chase?

00:49And I am proposing that we rename the entire planet Trump.

00:53In the world that this administration is building and this committee is enabling, everything

00:59is about Donald Trump anyway.

01:02Republicans are proposing that we put his face on currency.

01:06His name is apparently going to go on Air Force One.

01:09You've introduced a bill to add his head to Mount Rushmore.

01:13His whims are shaping everything from who gets prosecuted to who gets silenced and who gets

01:20to participate in democracy.

01:23And so I would not be surprised if one of you actually proposes a 60-foot statue of him

01:29looming over the National Mall as we've taken, you know, some liberty to depict what that

01:34might be.

01:35You have to get ahead here and skate to where the puck is obviously going.

01:40So let's skip the endless parade of one-offs here.

01:44It's far more efficient to just cut to the chase.

01:47But let's be clear about what planet Trump actually looks like.

01:52It's like a theme park from 1890 but with catastrophic climate dystopia.

02:00You're talking about the trade and economic policy of 1890.

02:04The foreign policy of 1890, science and education from the 1890s, deregulation and tax and wealth

02:11policy from the Gilded Age, the Wild West of gun violence for sure but with modern really

02:17destructive weapons.

02:19And back to the 1890s you go for health policy, civil rights, and a lot more.

02:25And a great example of that is our great scientific agency, NOAA, where thousands of scientists

02:33and public servants are being indiscriminately fired.

02:36These are people who forecast hurricanes, monitor climate trends, and protect our coasts.

02:42Apparently it is back to the farmers' almanac when it comes to things like weather forecasting

02:48on planet Trump.

02:49So, to my colleagues across the aisle, you're not governing with this stuff.

02:56You're sabotaging.

02:57A government that doesn't work isn't an accident resulting from all of this chaos.

03:02It's actually the plan.

03:04And you are doing nothing about it.

03:06While it all burns down, this Republican majority is spending our time trying to rename bodies

03:12of water.

03:13If you want a world where science is sidelined, facts are optional, public service is gutted

03:19in favor of gold-plated self-promotion, congratulations, you're living on planet Trump.

03:25Let's stop pretending that any of this is about patriotism or efficiency.

03:30It is all about power, control, and making everything about one man.

03:36So let's just make it official.

03:38Show Donald Trump how mindlessly cultish you are, he's going to love this.

03:43Let's go ahead and rename the planet, Planet Trump.

03:46I yield back.

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