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.

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[–] 23 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago

    Meaningless cosplay by a geriatric pedophile

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago

    I've signed an order to change the name of Mar a Lago to Is a Pedo.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago

    I hate him so much I think I'm almost to the point of being able to subsist entirely on that hatred alone.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Neither Google nor Apple has bent the knee just yet. (With the "Gulf of America", I'm pretty sure Apple bent the knee first.)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    The Great Fake should keep his burger-pickin’ hands off the Great Lakes

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    That’ll show ‘em!!

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