“Late Present” host Stephen Colbert on Monday known 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 known as,” Colbert identified.
However Trump is so indignant over the refusal to associate with his identify change for the physique of water that he’s banned The Related Press from the Oval Workplace and Air Drive One indefinitely.
“You possibly can’t get mad at The AP for not utilizing your silly identify,” Colbert mentioned. “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, quite a few different corporations, together with Google, Apple and Axios, have gone together with the identify change.
“However, women and gents, a lone hero stands tall,” Colbert mentioned. “As a result of MapQuest continues to record it because the Gulf of Mexico.”
Colbert provided an exaggerated salute to the customarily 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 mentioned. “Seize your assortment of Beanie Infants and prepare to dip-frost your Dunkaroos as a result of MapQuest is exhibiting us the shining path to revolution, and it’s an eight-page printout that you simply by accident did in full coloration and your mother’s gonna fucking kill you for it.”
After all, he acknowledged that there might be a motive aside from an “outrageous act of rise up” 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 mentioned. “However it’s attainable that there aren’t sufficient folks nonetheless working at MapQuest to replace something.”
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