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."

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[–] 56 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Make a note on which maps companies comply in the US and boycott them.

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    [–] 30 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    BREAKING NEWS: Province of Quebec renames Mar-a-Lago to Merde-a-Lago

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  • [–] 27 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Canada - 🥱. We and everyone else in the world still call it Lake Ontario. 🖕

    🍁True North Strong and Free 🍁

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  • [–] 28 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 24 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    He seems to think Canadians will care what they choose to call that body of water.

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    [–] 21 points 4 days ago

    Oh no, a rapist is calling to rename a lake in a country where 1/2 the population can barely read.

    I am quite happy that Canada is diverting away from this dumpster fire of a country.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 days ago

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    He can call it what he will, but Canadians still call the Rogers Centre the SkyDome over 20 years later.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago

    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?

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago

    The child rapist pressy throwing yet another tantrum... maybe the latest babysitter can be more diligent with diaper duties?

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  • [–] 15 points 4 days ago

    Canada should rename it to Epstein Files Lake

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    This is like trying to make “fetch” happen. No one is going to call it that.

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    [–] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Lake Epstein, it even has islands.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    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.

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    [–] 9 points 4 days ago

    In response, the City of Toronto can propose renaming the Green Lane Landfill to the Donald J. Trump Memorial Landfill, or Donald Dump for short.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago

    Please everyone, just ignore this shit. Better yet laugh at them and call them morons then ignore it.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Open Street Map will likely ignore Donnie's foolishness like they did with the Gulf of Mexico.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    It would make me proud to be a canadian if the person that takes him out is one of ours. Wipe out the whole lot of them.

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    Lets rename Lake Michigan to Lake Ontario Jr.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    We should rename the entire US "South Canada" or "Lesser Canada".

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    I pissed my name into a bunch of fences as a kid. Didn't make them my fences.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    An interesting factoid - Lake Ontario is the SMALLEST of the Great lakes.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Just checked, Google Maps still calling it Lake Ontario.

    But this is just the ammunition Vance needs to dethrone Trump after the mid-terms. "Rome burns while Nero fiddles’.

    Not only are Trump’s antics the laughing stock in Canada, the laughter is spreading into America as well. Why is Trump throwing a hissy fit over the name of a Lake when the American economy is crumbing? This is his top priority?

    It won’t take much for Vance to question Trump’s mental health and fitness for office when he is ready to act.

    The American polls are against Trump on this issue. Just under 4 in five (79%) of Americans have a favorable impression of Canada. They may not be following the trade talks, but this message was directed at Americans, and it is hard for them to miss. Why is Trump so visibly trash-talking Canada? It has absolutely no political up side, with no hope it will be favorable to those Republicans who are facing Senate and House elections in three months. The more that Republicans distance themselves from Trump, the easier it is for Vance.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    Boy it would be nice if trump walked off a short bridge

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    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"

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    I just signed a piece of toilet paper directing my ass to rename Donald Trump to "Donald Duck".

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  • Lake Superior is named that because Obama was a better president.

    But don't let trump or the magat cult know.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    Oh no! Anyways…..

    How about them Epstein files?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    And in this house hold we have decreed that the USA will, from now on, be known as Lala-land.

    I used a sharpie and everything so very official. We will be persecuting everyone who does not use this name going forward.

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