Trump vient de revendiquer un territoire français avec une carte

Donald Trump has long placed his name on his properties: Trump Tower, Trump Plaza, Trump Casino, and even the Trump Coin, his cryptocurrency.

• Since his return to power in January 2025, he has placed his name or image on passports, banknotes, and government programs. • He has linked his name to public institutions such as the U.S. Institute for Peace and the Kennedy Center (name ultimately removed for legal reasons).

Democratic lawmakers have denounced this drift and introduced bills to ban sitting presidents from naming public buildings after themselves.

To make the Trump name a recognizable brand associated with wealth and success, which some observers describe as a personality cult.

• Decree renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. • Renaming Lake Ontario, on the Canada border, as Lake America.

These decisions are not recognized internationally: they only change on official U.S. maps, with other actors free to adopt them or not.

• A map distributed by Trump shows in U.S. colors Canada (already compared to the 51st state), Mexico, Greenland (autonomous Danish territory threatened with annexation). • Iceland, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica. • French Caribbean territories (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin), Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, and other Caribbean and Central American islands.

Observers see in this a desire to promote the United States at the expense of neighboring countries' sovereignty.

Time magazine speaks of toponymic narcissism, a tendency to name places after oneself, echoing the MAGA movement (Make America Great Again) and the America First agenda.

Political geographer Frédéric Girot argues this is about promoting the idea of a triumphant America extending beyond its borders.

• These decisions would allow Trump to test the acceptability of his expansion ideas and normalize them in public discourse. • They also echo the 19th-century Monroe Doctrine, which stated that the Americas must remain under U.S. influence.

Trump has stated he wants to rename the Strait of Hormuz as the Trump Strait, a way to claim a symbolic victory while Iran retains actual control of the strait following the war launched by the United States last February.

By renaming places and symbolically redrawing maps, some see Trump's desire to occupy media space.

To draw attention to controversial topics he controls to avoid spotlighting other challenges of his presidency.

• His military failures in Iran. • The rise in prices currently affecting the United States.

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Several mobilizations took place this Tuesday throughout France amid a general rise in prices, notably fuel, following a summer marked by record heat, wildfires, and drought.

• Police from the Alliance union demanding more resources, recruitment review, work overload, and a risk premium not increased since 2019. • Energy workers defending their employee rate, a benefit on gas and electricity enjoyed by about 140,000 workers and 160,000 retirees. • About fifty fishermen at Fos-sur-Mer who blocked an oil depot. • A coalition of firefighters, nurses, students, and environmental and feminist organizations.

Measures to address climate disruption, more resources to prevent wildfires, a tax on major polluters, and action against the underfunding of higher education and research.

Further mobilizations are planned for September 26 throughout France.

A drone was shot down this Tuesday over Lithuania by NATO fighter jets after entering the country's airspace shortly after midnight.

The drone likely entered from Belarus, a Russian ally, and flew over Lithuania for about 30 minutes heading west before being shot down near the Kaunas reservoir.

• This interception comes as fighting intensifies between Russia and Ukraine. • Poland announced it has launched aerial military operations following Russian drone strikes against Ukraine. • Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia regularly record drone intrusions over their territory.

The Lithuanian president stated his country would defend its airspace with its NATO allies; neither Russia nor Ukraine claimed ownership of the drone.

The Panama Canal, a key maritime passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific, must again reduce traffic due to the El Niño climate phenomenon.

The canal operates with rainwater stored in artificial lakes whose levels have dropped due to drought caused by El Niño, a natural climate phenomenon occurring every two to seven years.

• Starting in October, an average of about 29 ships per day can transit the canal compared to 36 normally. • Fewer passages mean more waiting and prices likely to increase. • In late August, a methane carrier paid 5.3 million dollars to use the canal faster.

Panama declared a state of emergency in response to El Niño.

China announced it wants to create an open-source artificial intelligence zone accessible to all emerging countries, following the BRICS summit in New Delhi bringing together Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

In open source, some technical elements of a model (code, parameters) are accessible, allowing companies, universities, or government agencies to adapt it to their needs without starting from scratch.

• For China, a way to compete with major American companies using cheaper, more adaptable technologies. • A risk of some countries' dependence on Chinese companies, servers, or technologies.

Several American AI executives call for slowing its development, but no company wants to do so alone, while Trump refuses to let China gain ground.

CNews is the media outlet that spread the most climate misinformation in 2026, according to a study by the Media Observatory on Ecology published this Monday.

• 452 cases of climate misinformation recorded from January 5 to June 30, 2026, up 28% from 353 cases in the first half of 2025. • CNews and Sud Radio are the only outlets broadcasting more than one case of climate misinformation per hour of climate news. • 60 cases recorded from May 25–31 and 80 cases from June 22–28, during heat waves.

Misinformation refers to the spread of inaccurate information but without malice, unlike disinformation, which involves an intent to deceive.

20% of those making these statements are journalists, with 70% recorded on CNews and Europe 1; the Observatory submitted 30 complaints to Arcom in 6 months, as many as in the previous three years.

The 78th Emmy Awards ceremony, the equivalent of the Oscars for American television, took place this Monday.

The series Wednesday... (Widows Bay), a blend of dark humor and supernatural horror, took home 14 awards total, a record for a comedy, including Outstanding Writing for Kathy Dipold and Outstanding Directing for Hiro Murai.

The Pitt named Outstanding Drama Series for the second consecutive year.

• Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series: Noah Wyle in The Pitt. • Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series: Rhea Seehorn in Pluribus.

Up to 2 million meals could soon be delivered to abandoned dogs and cats in France through Operation Act for Adoption, launched in 2014.

For 3 months, each purchase of Pedigree or Whiskas brand products contributes one meal to animals in shelters run by the 30 Million Friends foundation.

Since 2014, the operation has already distributed 22 million meals.

This operation comes as French shelters are already severely overcrowded: between June and August 2026, nearly 9,508 animals were taken in at the SPA, 20.8% more than in 2025.