Dipping a toe into the Gulf of America

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President Donald Trump’s exclusion of the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One for using “Gulf of Mexico” rather than switching to “Gulf of America” is petty, dictatorial, and wrong.

In other regards, however, the absurd spat over the gulf supports Oscar Wilde’s observation that the truth is never pure and rarely simple.

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