Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert threatened to rename the nation’s capital to the “District of America” after growing annoyed with Democratic lawmakers for mocking President Donald Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. “I would caution my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to refrain from making jokes about the Gulf of America because next up may be the District of America that we are working on,” the Colorado congresswoman said during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on Tuesday. One of Trump’s first actions after returning to the White House was to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and revert Alaska’s Denali back to its original name, Mount McKinley, in an executive order. The House committee was considering Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Gulf of America Act,” which seeks to codify the name change. It was unclear whether Boebert thought that the District of Columbia is named after the country of Colombia. The federal district gets its name from the explorer Christopher Columbus, whose legacy Trump and the GOP have sought to defend in the face of increasing attention on his enslavement of the continent’s indigenous people.
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