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More meaningless symbolic gestures rather than any sort of actual policy.

These are actually loyalty tests. He makes these ridiculous proclamations, and then sees who jumps to fulfill them. Companies like Google are very eager to rename large bodies of water whenever the President tells them to. How far are they willing to go? Will they rename their entire AI division to SI? If they do, the President will just up the ante. Will they rename the days of the week? Hand over a large stake in Google to the US government? Who knows, the only way to find out is to try.

> Will they rename the days of the week?

That’s a ridiculous claim.

Trumpsday is steak day in the Central Super Intelligence Agency cantina, how can you not love Trumpsday?

We here in North Devosica, formerly Michigan, fully support Trumpsday and the month of America (formerly July).

Unfortunately the proposed Sepsteinber did not go through.

It's less about big tech. They are always risk avoiding when it comes to the government. Google renames things all the time all over the world for the population of some gone-wild administration.

Inventing new speech makes it easy to identify loyalists on a personal level at scale and also avoids that people talk to each other.

They could also just be another distraction. It's better we talk about this than his numerous policy failures or the Epstein files, where the evidence of him raping children could come up.

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