“Late Show” 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 offended over the refusal to go together with his title change for the physique of water that he’s banned the AP from the Oval Workplace and Air Drive One indefinitely.
“You possibly can’t get mad on the AP for not utilizing your silly title,” Colbert stated. “The factor it’s best to get mad on the AP about just isn’t utilizing the Oxford comma of their type information, OK?”
As Colbert identified, quite a few different corporations together with Google, Apple and Axios have gone together with the name-change.
“However, women and gents, a lone hero stands tall,” Colbert stated. “As a result of MapQuest continues to listing it because the Gulf of Mexico.”
Colbert supplied 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 wherein 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 exhibiting 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.”
In fact, he acknowledged that there may very well be a motive aside from an “outrageous act of insurrection” for MapQuest’s resolution.
“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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