President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” his latest escalation as he engages in a tense trade war with Canada.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” his latest escalation as he engages in a tense trade war with Canada.

“‘Lake of America’ was something I’ve been thinking about for a long time,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “We have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean. So, maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both.”

Surrounded by large maps of the Great Lakes, Trump said the name change was “effective immediately,” and that his staff had “filed all the necessary papers, documents, everything else.” A White House aide claimed the lake “has most of its volume in the United States” and that the “deepest parts” are in US territory.

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
      41·
      6 hours ago

      Meh, they have their own weird measurement system that no one understands. Let them use their own names for places and things and furtger alienate from the reat of tge world because they follow a senile racist pedo

  • rose56@lemmy.zip
    3·
    6 hours ago

    President with one foot on the grave, does things no one would do, because he has nothing to do with his life and because he will die.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Carney should rename lake Michigan lake Canada, especially because it has no border with Canada (actually debatable, as Michigan and Huron are essentially the same lake as far as water goes).

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      No, he should not be a toddler and do real government work instead. No one cares what a demented old man wants to call a lake.

  • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    10 hours ago

    This is bait. Where are the Epstein Files? Why are we still in a failed elective war with Iran? Why are we having to use buy now, pay later for groceries? Renaming a lake is a distraction.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
      21·
      6 hours ago

      The Epstein Files will not be released. Too many Democrats, for one.

      Also, the problem is not Dump, but citizens like the ones here, except for some like you, who allow themselves to be manipulated and baited in all his smoke screens.

  • ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca
    2·
    6 hours ago

    It’s his projection to look powerful to his dwindling MAGA base because of his failure in Iran, along with the department of wars failure.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
      3·
      6 hours ago

      He’s ruling by decree, and the legacy media enables it, despite its illegality.

      We’re living in a dickless-tatorship and nobody is willing to do the right thing.

  • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    104·
    17 hours ago

    You all laugh, but think for a moment about the poor cattle rancher currently sitting on the toilet with his lettuce diarrhea, worried about the pending foreclosure of all he has and when the ivermectin is finally going to kick in for little Billy Jr’s case of measles.

    But then upon his porcelain throne he sees his dear leader with the courage and genius to redraw the name of the lake he didn’t remember existed from its communist foreign name to a name he knows and can remember, because it’s the name of where he lives and also two of his daughters.

    And finally, for the first time since Obama’s shadow government made him wear a mask in 2020 for the hoax pandemic that doctors claimed killed his elderly parents but everyone knew was just a flu and also engineered by Fauci for maximum damage — he knows.

    He knows it’s going to be okay.

    That when Billy Jr beats this made-up measles thing and little America One and America Too and the whole family loses the ranch, that they can go to the Lake that is now their heritage by the only name they need to learn it.

    And then he’ll float, staring up into the heavens, finally at peace secure in the knowledge that at long last the greatest President since Jesus is cradling his heart and interests in his diminutive bruised hands, exhausted from all the renaming of water.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
      4·
      16 hours ago

      Was explaining the propaganda of that Great to be an American song to my son. He never heard it so pulled up the music video. I had never seen it just heard the song. But the video was just that. The man singing how great America is even has he is losing everything and becoming homeless. Pretty fuck up.

      • IamSparticles@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        16 hours ago

        Every time that song comes up I like to point out that they guy who wrote it, Lee Greenwood, is a complete hack that has never done anything else noteworthy and has been living off the royalties ever since. He even re-wrote the lyrics, badly, to make a Canadian version to try and squeeze more cash out of that cow of a song.

  • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
    18·
    13 hours ago

    Trump has wide latitude over how the US government refers to geographic landmarks…

    This is how it worked for the “Gulf of America,” too. The president can’t force map publishers to use his names. He can only force the career public servants in the federal government to use his names.

    Google Maps (to name one of many) changed “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America” of their own accord. And that will be the case this time, too, if Google follows through.

  • cheers_queers@lemmy.zip
    5·
    10 hours ago

    he is so fucking braindead that he doesnt realise “great” means large in this context. fucking die already please