Less than 24 hours after President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the governor of Texas is now throwing the Lonestar State’s name in the ring.

During a press conference on Tuesday, President-elect Trump said he wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of America.’

“We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” he said. “Which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory, the Gulf of America, what a beautiful name.”

On Wednesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott chimed in on X (formerly Twitter).

https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1877064844966268984

Less than 24 hours after President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the governor of Texas is now throwing the Lonestar State’s name in the ring.

During a press conference on Tuesday, President-elect Trump said he wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of America.’

“We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” he said. “Which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory, the Gulf of America, what a beautiful name.”

On Wednesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott chimed in on X (formerly Twitter).

https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1877064844966268984

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—The decision by Facebook’s parent company Meta to eliminate fact-checking was “long overdue,” the former congressman George Santos said on Wednesday.

“For far too long, Facebook has been a haven for people hell-bent on spreading facts,” said Santos, who said he was making his statement from the International Space Station.

“I commend Facebook’s decision, and I know that my fellow Beatles agree with me,” he added.

Praising Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg for “freeing Facebook from the tyranny of accuracy,” he declared, “I say this as a citizen, a patriot, and the NHL’s all-time scoring leader.”

Donald Trump Jr. quickly left Greenland Tuesday after spending less than a day in the autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

The son of President-elect Donald Trump traveled to the island as part of his father's effort to purchase the territory. Representatives from Denmark, however, made it clear that Greenland was "not for sale."

Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Egede "has been very, very clear … that there is a lot of support among the people of Greenland that Greenland is not for sale and will not be in the future either," Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Tuesday.

In a video posted to Instagram, Donald Trump Jr. accused Danish outlets of spreading "fake news" as his plane was preparing for takeoff.

Mike Lindell has suffered another self-inflicted loss in long-running litigation over the $5 million he owes to an engineer who proved that data the Minnesota pillow magnate claimed was definitive proof of foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election was nothing of the sort.

A federal magistrate judge in the North Star State on Monday said that the pro-Donald Trump businessman had again failed to provide court-ordered financial information to plaintiff Robert Zeidman as the latter litigates the collection of the multimillion dollar prize he earned by winning the 2020 “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge.

In a brief two-page order, U.S. Magistrate Judge Dulce J. Foster said that Lindell’s company had “not complied with its discovery obligations” to Zeidman, failing to even respond when the engineer’s attorney filed a motion to compel the information from Lindell.

Zeidman previously told the court that Lindell provided him with QuickBooks files that were password protected. He also said that Lindell failed to produce requested documents and respond to certain interrogatory questions.

“Because Lindell did not oppose the Motion [to Compel], the Court finds these discovery requests are reasonable and grants the motion,” Foster wrote.

Special counsel Jack Smith's final report has been handed off to Attorney General Merrick Garland, leading to speculation about the level of detail in its pages.

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted Tuesday that Donald Trump's team had seen the report, which led the lawyers of his co-defendants to press for censorship. The judge, Aileen Cannon, later declared that it would not be released.

Rubin said that the two-volume report likely won't have much unknown information. "But what there might be that we haven't seen is documentation and evidence for the facts as we understand them."

"If that's what's in these reports, then possibly what they are fighting against is substantiation of things they've always claimed never happened. Extra details," she added.

Those might not be included in the report as a whole, but they could appear in pieces sprinkled throughout, she said.

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Declaring himself “deeply humbled by this honor,” Elon Musk on Tuesday landed at the top of Forbes’s list of the 400 Most Exhausting Men.

In an impressive feat, he dethroned Donald J. Trump, who had topped the list for the past 37 years.

The Tesla CEO said that he had “no intention” of resting on his laurels as he rolled out ambitious plans to meddle in the elections of Sweden, Nepal, and Botswana.

According to Forbes, despite being the World’s Most Exhausting Man, Musk is still not interesting.

A variety of U.S. officials responded to the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack in very different ways, though Donald Trump took the opportunity to publish a poorly timed message to his social media platform. It read in its entirety:

Biden is doing everything possible to make the TRANSITION as difficult as as possible, from Lawfare such as has never been seen before, to costly and ridiculous Executive Orders on the Green New Scam and other money wasting Hoaxes. Fear not, these “Orders” will all be terminated shortly, and we will become a Nation of Common Sense and Strength. MAGA!!!

There was no shortage of bizarre errors of fact and judgment in the missive. President Joe Biden, for example, is not engaged in any prosecutorial abuses. The retiring Democrat has protected millions of acres of coastline from offshore oil and gas drilling, but (a) that’s not the Green New Deal; (b) this isn’t a “scam”; and (c) the climate crisis isn’t a “hoax,” no matter how many times Trump claims otherwise.....

The obvious problem with the claim is the overwhelming evidence pointing in the opposite direction: The Democrat welcomed Trump to the White House after Election Day, for example, despite the fact that Trump did not extend the same courtesy after the 2020 race. Biden also vowed to attend his successor’s inaugural ceremony, which the Republican also refused to do.....

But even if we put all of that aside, it takes galactic amounts of chutzpah for Trump, of all people, to whine about Biden making the presidential transition process “difficult.”

As the Republican probably ought to remember, during the last presidential transition process, he refused to accept the election results, lied uncontrollably about his defeat, pursued a scheme to claim illegitimate power, provoked an insurrectionist riot, and became the first president in American history to deny the nation a peaceful transfer of power.

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin on Tuesday questioned whether Judge Aileen Cannon has the authority to block the United States Department of Justice from releasing special counsel Jack Smith's report on his two criminal investigations into President-elect Donald Trump.

"It is not clear... whether she has jurisdiction because earlier this year, she threw out the Mar-a-Lago documents case explaining that, from her reasoning, Jack Smith did not have constitutional authority to bring that prosecution under the appointments clause of the Constitution," she said.

"And so there is no basis here to block the report in part because it is not clear there is a case or controversy in front of her, but if there were, the argument that Trump is making that presidential immunity also precludes the release of the report is a stretch of the Supreme Court's ruling that a president cannot be prosecuted for acts having to do with his presidency while he is a sitting president."

Legal analyst Barbara McQuade, meanwhile, speculated that Cannon's move was simply to help Trump run out the clock until his inauguration on January 20th.

"I don't think she has any jurisdiction, but delay is the name of the game," she said. "If they can stop the clock until January 20th then the Department of Justice will be a Trump appointee and they will kill the whole thing. That's the goal here."