Trump is already imposing Newspeak

Controlling the narrative is always controlling the words. We know this well in Catalonia, with the whole debate about whether TV3 should be able to talk about exile or political prisoners. Now it is Trump who is determined to impose his particular and Orwellian new language and the term golf of mexico is now outlawed, in favor of golf of americaIt's not just that his administration is now adopting the patriotic neologism: it is pressuring the media to jump through the hoops and refer to the geographical feature by the new name. The Associated Press, however, has explained that golf of mexico This will be the name they will preferentially use. They justify this by saying that this golf course has been called that for more than 400 years and that Trump's renaming is only valid in the United States, not in Mexico. They also remember that they are a global agency, so they must think of the most common name in the world. But all these reasons have not been enough to convince Trump, who has banned one of his reporters from attending an event to sign one of his (outlandish) executive orders. The agency has already warned that it considers this a violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution.

We are in the streets: forces that carry out their electoral campaign by falsely raising the flag of freedom, when they sit in the armchair they activate the most ironclad mechanisms to control the discourse to the point of vetoing words. They denounce the language woke while the scissors are being cut. Musk, who calls himself an absolutist of freedom of expression, has yet to say a word in the face of this flagrant and unpunished abuse. The case may seem anecdotal, but it confirms Trump's desire to maintain a frontal opposition to the media. This has only just begun.