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The thing with "Gulf of America" – presumably everybody involved knows this is stupid, including Trump. It is deliberately stupid and fake. It's the kayfabe esthetic from pro wrestling. It's obviously fake, even the rubes know its fake, that is part of the point. Everybody is in on the game of fooling themselves. The stupidity is the point.
An important aspect of magic. Roughly, it means maintaining a fictional persona and narrative to the point where it becomes real, or sort-of real. The audience may or may not be hip to the fictionality, and it sort of doesn't matter.
Aleister Crowley, David Bowie might be said to have kayfabe careers, in that they both build elaborate personas for themselves that they then basically became. Donald Trump, Emperor Norton perhaps.