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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.

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[–] Alexfire@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

What a deplorably designed country that one person can do all this wasteful stuff. Way more wasted by this party than the fraud they like to point out in some places, and no peep on where it's actually worse. It's one part of the low-level thinking that high-control groups enforce, to keep people from asking questions and finding the evidence. For example that all the other rich countries pay much less for healthcare with better outcomes, get better worker benefits and satisfaction and all that makes healthier people than the usa system. It shows that they don't want that for everyone, just them and theirs, the selfish tradition is strong!

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Can we just have one day without deplorable yank news?

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Give it a few years. Our news is as bipolar as it gets. It will be positive eventually.

If you want no yank news at all... Well I have some bad news if you speak English and love on earth.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 5 hours ago

It's Lake Ontario, Gulf of Mexico.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Such a pathetic Trumper Tantrum.

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

He's such a child.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Someone get him a cereal box and some Crayons quick.

Imagine your boss asked what you'd done today and you showed him that he'd be fucking fuming.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Did he change the name for pedophile yes?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 16 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

It has no force of law. Too bad Google Maps is so sycophantic that they'll go along with it.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 5 hours ago

They are an alphabet and genocidal Zionist and surveillance agency. Going along with it is the least of their crimes against humanity.

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago

Then Canada should block google IP addresses. Tax the shit out of them. Ban them

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 4 points 12 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

[–] weps@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

and a strait would be nice even though he doesn't use it or want it

[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 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.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.ca 4 points 8 hours 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.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 118 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 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.

[–] Prairie_Madness@lemmy.world 209 points 1 day ago (9 children)

The dumbest fucking timeline

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

Often described as ignorant, he changed over 300 Wadiyan words to "Aladeen," including the words "positive" and "negative," causing mass confusion.

Doctor: Do you want the Aladeen news or the Aladeen news?

Patient: The Aladeen news?

Doctor: You are HIV-Aladeen

https://youtu.be/NYJ2w82WifU?

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 58 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Hey, remove that is= from the URL, it's leaking your Google ID.

Also, change this setting so it stops leaking your ID whenever you share a link.

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[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago

cry baby president, needs a new map cause his feelings were hurt. pathetic.

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 20 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 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.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Does he think EOs are laws? That's the only explanation I can come up with.

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Everybody sure acts like they are. IMO the entire idea of EOs needs to be abolished. Either get Congress to pass a law or it doesn't happen.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 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.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 95 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fun fact:

The mnemonic for the Great Lakes will also change from H-O-M-E-S to S-H-A-M-E, if you replace the O for Ontario with an A for America.

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[–] shirasho@feddit.online 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What does this asshole think executive orders are?

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

What does everyone else in the country think a president is??

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Just fucking die already god damnit.

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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 20 points 21 hours ago

"Making the Great Lakes Even Greater"

Man, "Lake America Great Again" is right there. Fucking amateurs

[–] procrastitron@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Note that the Canadian province is named after the lake; not vice versa.

So, this isn’t even the snub he thinks it is.

Yes, Trump is a complete moron, but this is particularly idiotic even by his extraordinarily idiotic standards.

[–] teslekova@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago

Ah, so Ontario has to change its name to America now.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 17 hours ago

iirc, the name 'ontario' predates the existence of the usa.. by 100 years.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 7 points 17 hours ago

That’ll show ‘em!!

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 55 points 1 day ago (6 children)

he can call it whatever he wants. The other 8 billion of us will still call it Lake Ontario.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

It isn't even binding for Americans. He still doesn't have the power to do that. It's binding for his admin and some public institutions only. And he can bully some into obedience.

I'm sure google maps will be among the first to kiss his ass again. (or suck dick, whichever you prefer. verbally, I mean) Without any prodding.

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[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 10 points 19 hours ago

Yeah that sounds like something a pedo rapist would do

[–] Moredekai@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Great, instead of HOMES we can remember the great lakes by SHAME

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[–] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 5 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

“‘Lake of America’ was something I’ve been thinking about for a long time,"

Yeah sure you were, pedo

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 38 points 1 day ago

Worlds stupidest man and notorious con man changes name of lake, while still managing to escape charges of child trafficking.

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 25 points 23 hours ago

Over 77 million Americans voted for this. They looked at Donald god damned Trump and said, "yeah, that's my guy." TWICE! Albeit it was non-consecutively, but I don't know if that makes it better or worse.

We live in a shit hole country, y'all. Shit-hole.

[–] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

There's no way he even knows which of the Great lakes that is. Don't pay any attention to anything that he says or does. He's just a demented old rapist.

[–] burido@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Sure he did. I'm in the EU.

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