TOI Correspondent from Washington: First, he renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Then he wanted Lake Ontario to be called Lake America. Now he wants New Mexico to become New America. At this rate, goes the joke, US President Donald Trump may soon rename America itself – perhaps call it New India, since Christopher Columbus, whose voyages helped bring the continent to European attention, was looking for India when he got here.
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