Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 25, 2025

And the people who go along with this “renaming” also call Japan “Other China.”

Other Disneyland is also Japan or China.

There is already a Baja California, so name the rest of Mexico Baja Texas or Baja America.

I don’t think France even wants you to use the words France and usa in the same sentence!

LaFayette may be regretting helping in the fight against the British.

Well, Mexico is a part of North America, as is the US, so Gulf of America is more geographically correct.

It will always be the “Gulf of Mexico” to me.

The USA has also been renamed the Union of Solipsistic Americans.

Paul McCartney and Wings classic ‘Mull Of Kintyre’ has been renamed ‘Mull of America’ in the USA market.

How can you define America as “America” without having the melting pot aspect it’s so well known for?! Dan aka…ps huh….

“They” renamed the Gulf? I didn’t know Trump changed pronouns.

I guess I’ll call Stephen Pastis “other Johnathan Lemon”, then.

NASA has announced that no person of color and no females will be landing on the moon

Iran is the other Hades.

I’ve got a better idea: since Trump wants Canada, he can have Quebec, the Maritimes and maybe Ontario. The West should take over Washington, Oregon and California and incorporate it into BC, since the whole shooting match of them are rabid lefties.

In all seriousness, if The US did take over Canada, whether by negotiation or by force, there would never, ever be another Republican government. Canada votes 70% left, historically.

Michelle Obama said she was going to rewrite our history. Trump is going to rename the world. Think of the boost in the economy with all the globe maps that will need to be made.

Apparently Greenland has adopted MAGA for their own. But to them, it means “Make America Go Away” :-)

A Gulf by any other name couldn’t be drilled so deep.

Rename United States of America to United States of Mexico.

There are several other Disneyland’s. But the renaming is just more YOB idiocy. YOB = Yuge Orange Buffoon, though your mile may differ for the B word.

Rat failed Geography!

Shouldn’t it be Gulf of Wannabe Russia?

I have a better suggestion…

Everything that was part of the Louisiana Purchase is renamed New France.

Everything else west of the Mississippi as well as parts of the Gulf (of Mexico) coast becomes Mexican America (América Mexicana)

New York state becomes New Holland, and New York City becomes New Amsterdam.

Delaware becomes New Sweden

The rest becomes New England

These terms should be used until Trump stops this nonsense of thinking he can rename parts of other countries.

Forgetting that America is not a country. The country is the United States OF America, the latter being a pair of continents that includes Canada, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.

If Robert Crumb had put a cartoon about a President renaming it ‘The Gulf Of America’ in a Zap Comix in 1968 we’d have all concluded that Robert had taken the brown acid.

It’s hilarious the way that the (D) have been on a re-naming spree constantlywhenever they were in national power, and not a peep. Then the current guy trolls them by doing the exact same thing, and it’s supposed to be some sort of international crisis.

Sorry, the press should be questioning dt’s mental state.

Any person in their right mind would not be call the Gulf if Mexico the Gulf of America or claim Canada, our best allay, should become the 51st state.

Just a bunch of ocean water to me…

Joke that I’m told originated in Germany:

Q: What borders on stupidity?

A: Mexico and Canada

Rat, you know EuroDisney allows you to drink wine in the park. I would think you would love that.

I heard something like that happened in “Amerikanskiy Rossiyskoy Federatsii” :D

You’re the United States, not America. Quit doing that.

Come on! Don’t bring back the political comics! THEY ARE NOT FUNNY AT ALL!!

Just one of the many idiotic things Orange has done so far.

Although one thing I agree with, and I’ll probably draw ire from some over this, is finally establishing English as the official language. It may be entirely symbolic and may not change anything, but there it is.

Fire at will.

The Orange one is an idiot, what more can be said? We have to get rid of him and his Cronies somehow. Legally of course.

Show me the law that changed the name. Right now we just have some loony old man who ridiculously decided to change it — and sycophants who are letting him have his way.

The place formerly known as the USA is being renamed the Easternmost Oblast of Greater Russia…

If the Dems can rename the sexes and their pronouns, a little thing like renaming a gulf is easy.

I am a retired university map librarian with a library that has a large online map collection site. I would get frequent, almost daily, email protest from Korea that the maps on our site (most were CIA produced) that showed “Sea of Japan” instead of “East Sea”. BTW, the CIA produced 100s of very basic maps that they sent to depository libraries that were copyright free and in the public domain maps so we could scan them.

Thank you, Mr. Pastis! This is the best laugh I’ve had in some time!

Dos this mean John Mellencamp is going to have to change a verse in “Pink Houses” from “and vacation down on the Gulf of Mexico” to Gulf of America??? Doesn’t really work in the song…

Who knows what Trump could be renaming next?

While we’re at it, let’s call the massive landmass south of America, “South America.”

I don’t know, it has a nice ring to it.

America, America, people shed their grace on greed, and shine thy good with nothing good from sea to polluted seeeeeeeea

If someone had their way. Upper Magaland, Magaland, and Lower Magaland

Nothing hasbeen renamed its the Gulf of Mexico as always. Just ignore stupidity.

Hey, Pinkpiggy, another political piece for you to not acknowledge, you should just not read it.

But those who are upset about this had and have no problems with the tearing down of statues.And if the entire continent is America, then the renaming is more ‘inclusive’, not less. Make up your hive-mind.

This has to be the least important issue of the day.

I call England “the promised land”.

Trumpistan DC

How about USA, a Division of Middle North America

Actually “place above America” doesn’t sound too bad. We could use a break these days.

Great strip today and one of the more idiotic moves by addled Trump. And it remains the Gulf of Mexico.

Istanbul was Constantinople ♪ ­

America is actually two continents, North and South.

It wasn’t “they”. It was “He”.

Rat, you guys in the U.S. can’t have Canada! We are neither for sale nor annexation! I’m sure Mexico feels the same way!

There is no limit to Trump’s total pettiness.

The Gulf of America separates or is between North America and South America. Voila…….

He called Greenland “Moneyland”

I love it. Great name.

From North to South, it’s Canada, Lower Canada, North Mexico and Mexico.

America is ok. UNITED States of America might be stretching it a bit into fantasy world.

and Alaska on rat’s map shoud be “More America”.

It is the North American continent and the South American continent. We are the United States OF North America. US citizens are so clueless.

It just shows how much people know about geography. Canada is in North America, Mexico is in Central America, and, as a bonus, there’s also South America. So, what’s the problem with Gulf of America? I don’t have a problem either way. Then again, how many schools have had to change their names for stupid reasons?

This is too sad of a strip. Moving on . . .

It should be “Place that used to be America”…

Whatever you name them, kids today STILL won’t be able to find them on a map

While you’re talking to France, tell them to com get their Statue of Liberty; We’re done with it.

I thought Japan had the other mouse money-making trap.

“Above”? “Below”?

Gulf of Turtle Island

There is a Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan as well. What will Rat call that one?

maga rat. that makes sense

No. This shows that Rat is not a MAGA. Otherwise, he would’ve labeled Canada as ‘51st State’.

So Greenland = trump land?

A gulf by any other name is just a big bowl of salt water that is good at spawning hurricanes. Now go play a round of gulf.

It’s confirmed – Rat is Republican.

Gulf of the Americas, possibly. Gulf of Mexico, I prefer.

Other names of the Gulf

Gulf of St. Michael" (Latin: Sinus S. Michaelis), “Gulf of Yucatán” (Golfo de Iucatan), “Yucatán Sea” (Mare Iuchatanicum), “Great Antillean Gulf” (Sinus Magnus Antillarum), “Cathayan Sea” (Mare Cathaynum), or “Gulf of New Spain” (Spanish: Golfo de Nueva España).

It just occurred to me that Trumps renaming of the Gulf was a masterful troll of the lefties that wanted to rename military bases and sports teams. I was dubious about it at 1st. Now I am all in!

Yes, I am aware that I can be slow at times.

‘Golfo del G*ringo Loco’

An English teacher asked her class to use the words :“defense”,“defeat” and “detail” in a single sentence.

“When a horse jumps defense, defeat go over first and detail goes last”

It is good we can at least laugh a bit to the infantile actions of Trump’s administration. It is a pity it is a symptom of something very dangerous – total disregard for the rule of law. Home and international.

If trump wants Canada,let’s fly him to Manitoba where they’ve got all the polar bears running around loose

They renamed Mt. McKinley back to Denali, the incredibly unique name that means “tall one”. So Trump renamed it back. When the Gulf of Mexico was named, Mexico spanned all the way to Louisiana. Since 1845, the American shoreline is longer than the Mexican one, which I assume is Trump’s justification. Whoever wants to can call it whatever they want. We say Germany, instead of Deutschland, the Netherlands instead of Nederland, Sweden instead of Sverige, Italy instead of Italia, France instead of La France, Hungary instead of Magyarország, and that one I totally get even though Hungary was originally considered an epithet. Let’s see, Japan is really Nihon. In its four official languages, Switzerland is known as “die Schweiz” (German), “Suisse” (French), “Svizzera” (Italian), and “Svizra” (Romansh), while its official name is “Swiss Confederation”. In South Korea, the country is referred to as “Hanguk” meaning “country of the Han”. In Arabic, Egyptians commonly refer to their country as “Misr” (مصر), which is the local pronunciation of the Classical Quranic Arabic name for Egypt, “Miṣr”. Greeks refer to their country as “Hellas”. So, all in all, what’s the big deal? This doesn’t even get into international bodies of water.Here’s a more detailed list of names for the Black Sea in different languages: Turkish: KaradenizRussian: Чёрное море (Čërnoje more)Georgian: შავი ზღვა (shavi zgva)Greek: Μαύρη Θάλασσα (Mauiri Thalassa)Bulgarian: Черно море (Cherno more)Romanian: Marea NeagrăUkrainian: Чорне море (Chorne more)Abkhaz: Амшын Еиқәа (Amshyn Eikwa)Crimean Tatar: Qara deñizAncient Greek: Πόντος Ἄξεινος (Póntos Áxeinos), meaning “Inhospitable Sea”Latin: Pontus Euxinus (hospitable sea), a euphemism for the earlier name Pontus AxeinusOld Iranian: *axšaina- (dark-colored)

I hear that the South Pacific is now the Gulf of Australia

I renamed my toilet “Gulf of Trump.” I drop a big fat Musk in there at least once a day.

How about Holland to Ha Ha Ha Land?

Not to worry, “Gulf of America” won’t last long.

It’ll occur to the Powers That Be that they can sell sponsorships.

An oil company will step up with the dough, and we’ll have…

The Gulf of Gulf.

Fox & Friends called El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras "3 Mexican countries… giving Trump an idea… ”

America North and South

Our new Commander-in-Grief stays up late dreaming of new way to insult allies.

“America” is NOT a country! It’s a CONTINENT (actually 2)! Nuff said.

Gulf of Mexico.Denali. I had to give up Pluto as the ninth planet , I’m not backing off this.

Oh, Rat – you are so wrong about all of this! The continents are North America and South America. AMERICA!!! That said, the Gulf of Mexico (even though it may technically be described as the Gulf of America) was, is, and shall always be, The Gulf Of Mexico!!! Regardless of some jerk deciding otherwise. (I figured “jerk” would not be bad enough to get my comment blocked.)