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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 day ago

Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ amid Canada trade war

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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 day ago
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Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario 'Lake America' amid Canada trade war
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order that he said will "immediately" change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America."
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    Ontario CA we’re coming for you next!

    /s or not. Dont even know anymore.

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    I’m no longer surprised by this guy’s idiocy. Nor by so many people not being able to recognize the obvious.

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    How about the Canadians renaming the locks between the great lakes to “closed” in return?

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      Goddammit I’m in my kids bedroom waiting for them to fall asleep and you made me have to try really hard not to burst out into hard laughter. I don’t know why this was so funny just now. 😂

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    God this guy is a cancerous tumor on this country (US). We still call it the Gulf of Mexico…this is another waste of time

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    This will last about as long as “freedom fries”.

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      I remember those times, that was popular for about a week lol

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      That wasn’t an official order, that was some Fox News bullshit.

      This will last as long as “Department of War,” and “Gulf of America”. Make of that what you will.

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    It’s going to be interesting to see how many aspects of American culture instantly revert go 2015 after this regime, or attempt to do so, anyway.

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    Ive now signed an executive order renaming Washington D.C to pissy pants cry cry baby land D.C

    I expect this to be officially recognized as of now.

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    I still call the body of water between Mexico and the Southern US the “Gulf of Mexico”. And I will continue to call the large lake north of New York State “Lake Ontario”.

    Trump can pass as many petty executive orders at he likes. They won’t make a difference. Except to water time, effort, and money.

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      It’s like he thinks he’s punishing Canada.

      The reason the lake (and the province, and the city in New York) is called Ontario is because that’s what it’s been called for the last thousand or so years.

      All calling it “Lake America” does is shows the pompousness and ignorance of the person calling it that.

      Of course, Canada should retaliate by renaming Lake Superior to it’s original name….

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        Gichi-gami?

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          The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald starts playing

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          Yup; Anishinaabe Gichigami to be specific.

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    Superior is now Lac Au Canada then, fuck you

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    This accomplished so much. Canada must be trembling.

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      We’re all running around in a panic, trying to figure out what on Earth to do now. How can we go on? Maybe, just possibly, exactly as before? Is it conceivable that we could just… ignore him?

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      It’s spelled “Tremblay”

      Lol sorry what a stupid joke

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    We can do that too!

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    The American Ocean, and the US Ocean

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      Why is it still the District of Columbia and not the District of America?

      Nevermind, he obviously doesn’t know what DC stands for.

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        The day after someone tells him: “Did you know DC stands for District of Columbia? Nobody knew that.”

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      Dude, shut the fuck up, don’t want to give them any ideas!

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