Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'
a month ago by TomatoPotato69 to c/canada
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order directing the interior secretary to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America" as Canada trade war persists.
Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however.
The move is reminiscent of his move last year to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America."
That's my knee-jerk reaction too, but on further reflection I'm not sure.
Sure, Google making sure it's Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico in Google Maps is a nice thought, but that would be a strong political stand. Simply passing through the "official" names isn't political, and I can't judge too harshly companies not making specific political stands.
Ultimately, we have to all know that the names of these bodies of water will revert to their real names as soon as 'ol Donny kicks the bucket, right?
We have no assurances of that, and Google and Apple have no legal obligation to do this.
We have no assurances of anything in this life, but if I'm a betting man I put money on these stupid names being reverted when/if an adult is in the White House again.
And unless you work for Google/Apple/Microsoft in the GIS departments, you really have no idea if they do or don't have legal obligation to pass through GNIS data.
So if the US can just randomly rename stuff that doesn't belong to them, Canada can too. I want to see them rename the entire United States to "Trump is a Pedophile". That'll look great on Google maps!
I'd also like to unilaterally rename Ontario, California (ie: Ontario, CA) for creating unnecessary confusion.
Maybe they'll choose to rename it themselves? Like, maybe Manitoba, CA? That's got a nice ring to it!
The US has a long history of changing the names of things because “fuck you”, Mt McKinley is actually Denali for instance.
Obama reverted it's name to Denali, but of course Trump undid that.
Ultimately I think the solution is to call the mountain itself Denali (because of course that's its name), and if you have to placate all the idiots in Ohio, rename the national park (because the park is a federally administered thing) to "McKinley."
Canada - 🥱. We and everyone else in the world still call it Lake Ontario. 🖕
🍁True North Strong and Free 🍁
Im ok calling the american half 'Lake Epstein" but the canadian half is Lake Ontario.
Reasonable.
He seems to think Canadians will care what they choose to call that body of water.
Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however.
Trump cannot force anyone outside of the USA to respect his childish renaming bullshit.
He can't even force Americans to play his stupid game, though I'm sure a bunch if them will happily play along.
They could have just called it the Rogers Skydome, and nobody would have cared. I'm more mad about that than I am with the orange pedo having another tantrum with Lake Ontario.
It's all just an attempted distraction from the Republicans' ruinous economic and social policy. And hoping we forget about the Epstein files. Release the full Epstein files, with only victims images and PIA redacted.
But Rogers was just being senselessly stupid. They weren't trying to cover up being pedophiles, afaik, so why did they do it?
Canada should rename it to Epstein Files Lake
I haven't met a single person who is even willing to acknowledge the name change of the SkyDome. There's no way anyone pays any sort of attention to him trying to rename a lake.
They renamed the SkyDome?
It's technically the Rogers Center now.
Open Street Map will likely ignore Donnie's foolishness like they did with the Gulf of Mexico.
Some fucktard already tried submitting it.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/188110788
Looks like it was reverted.
I'm a little surprised anyone using OSM would also be a Trump disciple.
Lake Epstein, it even has islands.
No Lake Michigan is Lake Epstein. Don't need to rename Canada's great lakes and Lake Michigan is all in their borders. Also that is the one the FBI complaint alleges Trump witnessed the newborn of a 13 yr old Epstein victim murdered and dumped. If people want to get under his deathly orange skin run with that one.
I like the AP news article that points out Trump doesn't have the power or authority to do this and it is an entirely meaningless change except to cause US schools to update books four times.
We should rename the entire US "South Canada" or "Lesser Canada".
I just signed a piece of toilet paper directing my ass to rename Donald Trump to "Donald Duck".
Oh no! Anyways…..
How about them Epstein files?
Lake Superior is named that because Obama was a better president.
But don't let trump or the magat cult know.
I worry this might be more than just him throwing a tantrum.
When the water wars start, they'll start going, Canada is stealing water from LAKE AMERICA, OUR LAKE, OUR WATER!
setting the stage for a future war
You worry too much. Trump isn't capable of planning. Just sit back, crack a beer, and have a laugh at his impotent rage.
Jfc whats the acronym for remembering the lake names supposed to be now? HAMES?
... oh, wait, no. Its SHAME. Maybe this ain't such a bad shift in that light.
I was going to post something witty but the neighbors dog just took a trump on my lawn and I gotta go clean it. Every day some dog or another is taking a trump on my lawn. trumps are disgusting and smelly!
Look, as an American in pretty disappointed in my president. I don't care much about renaming the lake, but I do care he came up with such a dogshit name. I propose the name "Lake Democracy Manifest"
Boy it would be nice if trump walked off a short bridge
I pissed my name into a bunch of fences as a kid. Didn't make them my fences.
Lets rename Lake Michigan to Lake Ontario Jr.
I have a feeling Vance is gonna wait until after the midterms and pull the 25th amendment card. If he does it before the midterms he can only serve 1.5 terms (if he were to win a general election), vs 2.5 terms if he waits until after.
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