“Yucatán”
Which means “the end of your finger” because the Spanish asked some folks what they were pointing at and they didn’t understand the question
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El Gabacho
After Hispaniola they made a brief slave raid in the Bahamas, capturing 232 Lucayans, and then returned to Spain.[34] src
i think the cult would call him 'one of the good ones'
Returned to Spain? Traitor!
Hmm, idiocracy fits I guess. Seems to describe our country well enough.
Trumpland. Trumptopia. United states of Trump. Trumplvania. The new republic of Trump.
Just testing the "no wrong answers"
You missed Trumpistan
United States of America (temporary). America as a country isn't making it much longer anyway so no need to think about it too much.
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Hell.
Columbo. Marybe Columbo's wife.
United States
There's actually debate over whether America was actually named after Amerigo Vespucci. My understanding is that it was likely just a coincidence that his name is so similar to America. As I understand it, it was actually named after a tribe of native Americans. But native Americans don't pass the Republican scale of whiteness, so they'll probably try to rename America anyways. I'm calling it now: they're going to rename it to Trumpia