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Trump Presents Google as an Exhibit in His Influence Tour
· New York time
At an October 17 rally in Highland Heights, Kentucky, President Trump boasted about his influence and described Google in crude, flattering-to-him terms. His remarks came while discussing accomplishments including his decisions to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. The remarks put a major technology company into the president's account of his own power. His characterization remains a presidential claim, rather than an explanation from Google about its decisions. Digital maps make naming unusually tangible: a label becomes something people encounter while trying to get somewhere. That gives cartography a political visibility it rarely enjoys at a folding paper map's retirement party. The navigation app would prefer to provide directions. Politics would also like it to acknowledge who is driving.
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