{"id":17857,"date":"2025-01-11T02:50:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T02:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/gulf-of-buc-ees-gag-gains-traction-online-in-wake-of-proposed-name-change\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T02:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T02:50:41","slug":"gulf-of-buc-ees-gag-gains-traction-online-in-wake-of-proposed-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/gulf-of-buc-ees-gag-gains-traction-online-in-wake-of-proposed-name-change\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGulf of Buc-ee\u2019s\u201d gag gains traction online in wake of proposed name change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>A silly counter to Donald Trump\u2019s proposed name change for the Gulf of Mexico has gained traction on the internet thanks to the cult following of one gas station that is clearly anti-trucker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Trump\u2019s idea to change the name \u201cGulf of Mexico\u201d to \u201cGulf of America,\u201d several politicians have posted their own ideas for the name change. The one that caught our attention? A post from Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw, who suggested the notoriously anti-trucker gas station be the namesake of the body of water through a post featuring the Buc-ee\u2019s logo on a map with the name \u201cGulf of Buc-ee\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Interesting compromise <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mDY9I8TWzi\">pic.twitter.com\/mDY9I8TWzi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanCrenshawTX\/status\/1877392744223486229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Buc-ee\u2019s notoriously bans any and all truck drivers from their facilities, even if their rigs are parked elsewhere. With that in mind, we\u2019re not sure we can get behind the Buc-ee\u2019s name change, even if their bathrooms are spotless and their snack selection is unparalleled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of our other Buc-ee\u2019s related coverage below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-cdllife wp-block-embed-cdllife\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-cdllife wp-block-embed-cdllife\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-cdllife wp-block-embed-cdllife\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-cdllife wp-block-embed-cdllife\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/gulf-of-buc-ees-gag-gains-traction-online-in-wake-of-proposed-name-change\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A silly counter to Donald Trump\u2019s proposed name change for the Gulf of Mexico has gained traction on the internet thanks to the cult following of one gas station that is clearly anti-trucker.\u00a0 In the wake of Trump\u2019s idea to change the name \u201cGulf of Mexico\u201d to \u201cGulf of America,\u201d several politicians have posted their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}