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“The View” co-host Joy Behar went on a rant about where America got its name on Thursday as the co-hosts discussed President Donald Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
“This country that we’re in was settled by indigenous people, right? And yet they named the country after an Italian White man, Amerigo Vespucci. That’s what America is named after, Amerigo Vespucci, a White European,” she said.
“Why was it named after a White man if it was settled by indigenous people?” Behar continued.
The co-hosts discussed the Trump White House barring the Associated Press from an event at the Oval Office on Tuesday for the outlet’s refusal to use the term “Gulf of America” in accordance with President Trump’s executive order renaming the body of water between the United States and Mexico.
Co-host Sara Haines said …
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