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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.
I’m rather tired of this executive order nonsense. Can things really be changed so easily with an EO decree? If so, things are severely broken.
So long as the Supreme Court and the Legislative Branch play along, like they are not supposed to, then yes. He makes a demand through EO and if the world around him goes along with it, that’s all it really takes, people making the choice to agree to it. Then it’s between the groups that go along or don’t and which side eventually wins.
In another example, China successfully pressured various businesses and political groups change how they refer to Taiwan only a few years ago. They also just renamed various eastern Siberian cities from Russian to Mandarin names, in their own references. Whether this works is completely dependent on the world going along with it or not.
Not really, no.
Let’s say your name is John and for 200+ years everybody called you John. Then, along came a person we’ll call Captain Kiddiefucker.
Now Captain Kiddiefucker is a moron who wields significant power and directs everyone who’s too chickenshit to stand up to him that they should start calling you Guy.
Your name is still John, except now you have the advantage of easily recognizing Captain Kiddiefucker and his cult of pedophiles and idiots because they’ll all call you Guy.
That’s basically what this EO does.