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On the recordMay 7, 2025
We're the United States of America. We're not Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany or Napoleon's France. I just — we're better than this.
Said by
Don Bacon
Republican · Nebraska

Editor's note · Context

Bacon criticizes the name change as childish and beneath the U.S.

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