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allegorical oracle

(6,197 posts)
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 05:43 AM Jun 2025

FYI: DJT's latest travel ban includes the nation of Burma, which was renamed a quarter-century ago and now is known as

Myanmar. Isn't there a fact-checker in this WH?

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FYI: DJT's latest travel ban includes the nation of Burma, which was renamed a quarter-century ago and now is known as (Original Post) allegorical oracle Jun 2025 OP
fact checker Skittles Jun 2025 #1
It's not that simple. writerJT Jun 2025 #2
Trump also has spoken about Button and Nipple instead of Bhutan and Nepal which he though were ... Botany Jun 2025 #3
These morons decide what they will call you malaise Jun 2025 #4
Yes, there is CanonRay Jun 2025 #5
"We don't need no stinkin facts" says gqp Clouds Passing Jun 2025 #6
I think it's just a crude display of racist disrespect. ananda Jun 2025 #7

writerJT

(467 posts)
2. It's not that simple.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 05:53 AM
Jun 2025

The name change occurred after a coup. The US officially recognizes “Burma.”

In 2012, during a visit to the country, then-President Barack Obama used both “Burma” and “Myanmar.” An adviser to Myanmar’s president called that “very positive” and said it was an “acknowledgement of Myanmar’s government.”



Washington’s response to the coup seemed designed to highlight old criticisms, with both Secretary of State Antony Blinken and President Joe Biden pointedly avoiding the country’s legal name.

“The United States removed sanctions on Burma over the past decade based on progress toward democracy,” Biden said in a statement.


https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-burma-different-names-explained-8af64e33cf89c565b074eec9cbe22b72

Botany

(76,424 posts)
3. Trump also has spoken about Button and Nipple instead of Bhutan and Nepal which he though were ...
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 06:03 AM
Jun 2025

…. part of the Nation of India and spoke of the African country of Nambia instead Namibia in 2017.

He is functionally clueless. One of the writers or producers on his fake TV show “the apprentice”
is on record that he is just about illiterate and they had to stop filming the show @ times to have
somebody change his diaper and clean him up too.

ananda

(34,458 posts)
7. I think it's just a crude display of racist disrespect.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 09:25 AM
Jun 2025

They don't care about nations that are not like South Africa.

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