Trump’s Strategy

Portrait of Donald Trump in the style of the DOS version of 1991 strategy video game Sid Meier's Civilization, saying: "The Gulf of Mexico shall now be known as the Gulf of America."

Pixel art portrait of Claudia Sheinbaum in Civilization-style, against a background reminiscent of Mexico City, saying: "You're fucking kidding, right?"

Pixel-art of convicted felon Donald Trump, now saying: "We're also renaming the State of Canada, the State of Greenland, and the State of Panama. They all belong to me now."

Newspaper in the style of Sid Meier's Civilization, titled The Final Broadsheet, published February 1 2025 AD. The headline is "Donald Trump claims domination victory", with the subheadline "Google Maps now shows 100% of world is part of America". Below is the pixel-art portrait of Trump and a pixel-art world map with a stars-and-stripes pattern applied to the entire world. A pullquote reads "That's not how any of this works! - rest of world". A secondary story has the headline "Putin, Netanyahu, demand do-over: 'We didn't realise you could invade places by just renaming them yours!'".

What do you reckon? Is he trying to go for a domination victory without ever saying “MY THREATS ARE BACKED BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS!”? His track record shows that he’s arrogant enough to think that the strategy of simply renaming things until they’re yours is actually viable!

After I saw Mexico’s response to Google following Trump’s lead in renaming the Gulf of Mexico, this stupid comic literally came to me in a dream.

Adapts screenshots from Sid Meier’s Civilization (1991 DOS version), public domain assets from OpenGameArt.org, and AI-assisted images of world leaders on account of the fact that if I drew pixel-art world leaders without assistance then you’d be even less-likely to be able to recognise them.