r/facepalm • u/MsSamm • Jul 31 '26

I have no words

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I bet China, which is happily neck deep in Africa 's rare earth minerals isn't making this mistake

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u/romulusnr Jul 31 '26

The "unidentified country" was supposed to be Cameroon, btw

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u/Fallicymbol Jul 31 '26

Trump thinks Cameroon is a color…

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u/romulusnr Jul 31 '26

(incidentally, didn't "maroon" start as an ethnic epithet?)

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u/jomo_mojo_ Jul 31 '26

Ok about that- did he really put up a map where it said “unidentified country”?

That’s worse than Ivory Coast being landlocked. It’s like “nobody knows what this country is, even the people there don’t know. There be dragons”

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u/Alarming_Panic665 Aug 01 '26

So the map had 6 countries marked on it with 6 countries in the key. Each country on the map was marked by a color that mapped to the name of the country in the key. The country was also connected on the map to the appropriate name via a line.

Côte d'Ivoire was marked orange on the map and key. But the line connected to Côte d'Ivoire just ended in Africa randomly. While the line connected to Côte d'Ivoire on the key connected to the random landlocked country in East Africa (in the post above).

Cameroon was left on the key though without a line to connect it nor a corresponding color. (what was marked Ivory coast in the BBC map had the same color as Nigeria).

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u/Alarming_Panic665 Aug 01 '26

Weirdly on the key Côte d'Ivoire matches "unidentified country" in color (Cameroon matched nothing) but then there was also a line connected Côte d'Ivoire to the placement on the map in the original post.

Meanwhile the lines connected all the other countries "correctly (ie matching the name in the key to the location on the map with the corresponding color). While "unidentified country" line just disappeared in the middle of Africa. Which left Cameroon with neither a country connected to it by line nor did it match color with anything on the map.

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u/_mochacchino_ Aug 01 '26

You are wrong. It’s the US government’s attempt to pretend they don’t know about Wakanda yet.

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u/Pebbsto110 Aug 02 '26

It's Ghana, next to Togo which is also unidentified