No other day suits entertaining light concerns other than the grave issues hounding our sad republic than a relaxed Sunday.

Allow me therefore on this Sunday to regale you with recent news most of you might likely take as trivial or are indifferent to: the renaming of bodies of water.

The relevant news, in this case, is Donald Trump renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.” A curious piece of news which sent me scrambling to review maps to locate that particular region in the Western Hemisphere.

Having satisfied my curiosity about the where, the what, and the why that Trump was boasting about, it struck me however that we Filipinos are as adept as Trump at politically renaming bodies of water and in fact already did what Trump had done.

But before that, bombastic Trump said he renamed the “Gulf of Mexico” and is redrawing the map of some parts of the world because he wants America to “reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world.”

Consequently, politics-wary Google says its maps henceforth will sport the new name. But only Americans can geographically reference “Gulf of America.” The rest of the world can still go on using “Gulf of Mexico” says Google, dealing a big blow to Trump’s kingly ambitions.

The “Gulf of Mexico,” however, isn’t the only one Trump wants to rename. He repeatedly refers to Canada as the “51st state.”

We also don’t have clues on how Trump will rename Greenland if he succeeds in pressuring Denmark to cede the island or how he’ll rename Panama Canal should the US take back control of the vital waterway.

But while Google is seriously taking Trump, the rest of the world mocks the whole rollicking affair, with the Mexicans seemingly unable to contain themselves from laughter they’re rolling on the floor, reports the august New York Times.

Still, we can’t discount the most powerful man in the world and whatever “shock and awe” moves he may yet have in store for us.

But, for me, boisterous Trump hasn’t gone the distance, unlike kooky billionaire Elon Musk who proposes renaming the English Channel, which separates Great Britain from France, to “George Washington Channel.”

And, in our immediate neighborhood, global disrupter Trump hasn’t given an indication he wants to bamboozle rival China by renaming the S0uth China Sea, not even once.

A fact which only goes to show he is good only at ribbing fellow Americans, Mexicans, Canadians, Columbians and Danes. But not the Chinese.

On this score, even Trump’s former rival had more balls in using the renaming game to rattle China.

According to the Associated Press, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “in 2013 told an audience that, by China’s logic that it claimed nearly the entirety of the South China Sea, then the US after World War II could have labeled the Pacific Ocean the ‘American Sea.’”

And for that matter too, we Filipinos in fact were far gutsier than Trump when we renamed parts of the South China Sea as the West Philippine Sea (WPS).

We caught wily and bullying China — which continues to call the whole SCS as “Nan Hai (South Sea),” — on that one.

And, not only did we insist on WPS, we plucky Filipinos forced Google Maps into removing the Chinese name for the disputed Panatag Shoal back to its international name, Scarborough Shoal.

Scaredy-cat Google Maps backed down because we Filipinos sent petitions complaining that if Google continued to use the Chinese name for the shoal, Huangyan Island, it unfairly gave credence to China’s false claims on the reef.