“Late Present” host Stephen Colbert on Monday referred to as out “petty and vindictive” President Donald Trump for going after The Related Press after the information company refused to make use of the time period “Gulf of America.”
“The Related Press retains calling it the Gulf of Mexico as a result of that’s what it’s referred to as,” Colbert identified.
However Trump is so offended over the refusal to go together with his identify change for the physique of water that he’s banned The Related Press from the Oval Workplace and Air Power One indefinitely.
“You may’t get mad at The AP for not utilizing your silly identify,” Colbert stated. “The factor it’s best to get mad at The AP about will not be utilizing the Oxford comma of their model information, OK?”
As Colbert identified, various different corporations, together with Google, Apple and Axios, have gone together with the identify change.
“However, girls and gents, a lone hero stands tall,” Colbert stated. “As a result of MapQuest continues to record it because the Gulf of Mexico.”
Colbert provided an exaggerated salute to the usually missed firm, then made some references to the time when MapQuest was launched ― a pre-Google and pre-smartphone period through which the mapping firm was much better recognized.
“Pack up the Buick LeSabre, we’re going again to 1996,” he stated. “Seize your assortment of Beanie Infants and prepare to dip-frost your Dunkaroos as a result of MapQuest is displaying us the shining path to revolution, and it’s an eight-page printout that you simply by chance did in full shade and your mother’s gonna fucking kill you for it.”
After all, he acknowledged that there might be a motive apart from an “outrageous act of insurrection” for MapQuest’s determination.
“Deep in my coronary heart, I need to consider that this stand they’re taking is due to the noble convictions of everybody at MapQuest,” he stated. “However it’s attainable that there aren’t sufficient individuals nonetheless working at MapQuest to replace something.”
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