Comment by hyperlinerapp

2 months ago

Presidents change names of things all the time.

Why are people fretting over this change?

> Presidents change names of things all the time.

Authoritarian presidents (e.g. Erdogan, Putin, Xi Jiping) do it. Democratic presidents follow institutional processes and diligence.

Your argumentation is very much like: "If the Mafia kills people why shouldn't I also be allowed to kill people?"

> Why are people fretting over this change?

Because it is a diversion from the things that really matter: inflation, war, the loss of international standing of the US. You know when you admonish a little boy about something wrong he did and he replies: "Look over there!". Yep, your country is governed by an octogenarian with the brain of a 4 year old boy. And the people that venerate him are equally stupid.