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Trump adds hypocrisy to the trappings of a rogue presidency

Self-styled champion of free speech victimises respected news agency

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Colin Randall
Feb 22, 2025
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A person’s common law name, I remember being taught decades ago, is the name by which he or she is known. Billy Fox can accordingly become, legally, Jimmy Knox simply by persuading everyone that’s now what he should be called.

If US law also sees it that way, Donald Trump’s weird executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America may be abov…

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