cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51194739
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.
Why does this fuck care so much about what something is named?
The only time anyone says Gulf of America is when they are making fun of him.
You mean the Gulf of Epstein and Trump Fucked Children?
He doesn’t. But he knows other people do, and just because he has a one-track mind, he assumes people being mad about “losing” Lake Ontario will forget about his involvement in the Trump-Epstein files for a news cycle.
Trumpstein files rolls off the tongue better.
I’ve met conservatives who unfortunately use ‘Gulf of America’ unironically.