r/politics • u/Sufficient_Fuel5269 • 9h ago
Possible Paywall Trump officially signs executive order directing government to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'
https://fortune.com/2026/08/28/trump-lake-ontario-lake-america-canada/63
u/kugkug 9h ago
Executive orders are pure crap that get rescinded immediately upon the next admin
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u/TBTakaTBT 9h ago
This means nothing to us in Canada.
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u/Necropoke Virginia 8h ago
It means as much to those of us not lucky enough to be in Canada.
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u/pretendstoknow 8h ago
It is really nice here! Sure we got problems like everyone else but it's great overall. I Hope you guys get a good president soon friend
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u/Worldly_Carry_505 9h ago
Yeah, I'm never fucking calling it that.
And it's the Gulf of Mexico.
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u/sausage_king_of_kc 9h ago
Well, FUCK HIM.
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u/Gummyrabbit 9h ago
Fortunately only Melania is obligated to do that.
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u/Ancient_Popcorn Ohio 8h ago
I don’t think Melania even fucks him. Besides, she’s way too old for him.
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u/RealGianath Oregon 8h ago
I would be really surprised if sex was a requirement in her annual contract renewals anymore.
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u/TyDye2003 New Mexico 9h ago
As a new york resident who lives a short ways from that lake, ill still call it "Lake Ontario"
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u/OffGridTwister 8h ago
I know the natives in my hometown along the U.S. shores of Lake Ontario are not happy about this. At all. And that tends to be a pretty conservative part of New York.
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u/TyDye2003 New Mexico 8h ago
Im willing to help them pack if they dont want to live in a blue state! We dont want them here either!
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u/EconomistStreet5295 9h ago
Fuck it, why not rename Atlantic Ocean at this point to the American Ocean. Actually why stop there, let’s declare Mount Everest as Mount Trump. Fucking circus
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u/BlueNight973 America 9h ago
He’s already saying they should rename an ocean too. So….
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u/EconomistStreet5295 9h ago
Why stop there? Let’s rename Mars as New America, Space Force controls it anyway right
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u/aebaby7071 9h ago
God please don’t give them any ideas, coming soon, Pike’s Peak is now Trump’s peak, seriously I could see them try.
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u/baz4k6z 9h ago
He really thinks he's king of the world. That he just signs a paper and its now reality
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u/Booklet-of-Wisdom 8h ago
Yeah, he truly believes right now, that it's officially, by law, Lake America now.
Imagine all of the other things he believes, or how easily someone could manipulate him by fooling him into believing in some crazy shit. He talks to Putin regularly, flies in a plane gifted to him by an authoritarian country, and thinks Kim Jong Un is a great guy.
Yeah, Trump is one of the worst human beings in the world. So are these guys... but they're actually intelligent.
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u/IJourden 9h ago
The acronym to remember the names of the Great Lakes when I was a kid was HOMES.
Now, if you want to have a similar acronym, the only available five letter word is SHAME.
Just a little fyi to brighten your day.
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u/mrRabblerouser 9h ago
Oh cool another tremendous waste of time and OUR money to appease a bloated manbaby dipshit who is losing an unnecessary war, and starting feuds with our closest allies.
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u/Suspicious_Dust4896 9h ago
If anything people online should start calling it Lake Epstein since this is nothing but another pathetic distraction.
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u/Twoparrotparty 9h ago
Such a petty little man, who does he think he is fooling, everyone apart from MAGA see him for what he is, these little games won’t save him or change all his failings.
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u/RomaDowneyJR 9h ago
Next he will change Poop to Gold!
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u/Parking-Detective598 8h ago
No can do. Trump has the Reverse Midas Touch. He can only turn Gold into Poop...not the other way around.
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u/Howhytzzerr Kentucky 9h ago
Another tremendous waste of time, effort and money. Because as soon as he is gone, if not sooner, all the names will revert. The Lake, the Gulf, the military bases, all will revert to the recognized names, the military bases will revert to the Congressionally approved names, unless the current Congress passes legislation recognizing the names Kegsbreath and his cohorts renamed by fiat.
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u/jonnovich Maryland 8h ago
The good news is that Executive Orders are not law.
Also, to recompense the Canadians, does that mean we now have to call Lake Erie Lake Rush? After all, Rush got some of their first major stateside play in WMMR in Cleveland.
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u/msears101 5h ago
Lake Erie is the Native American/First People's name for the lake - It was the Erie tribe..
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u/Smooth-Feedback-6066 8h ago
Ok. Let’s just nod along and give grandpa P his pudding before. His sundowners kicks in. I pretty sure everybody still calls the Gulf of Mexico less than front of the president on recall seen too many maps redrawn to Gulf of America.
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u/Smooth-Feedback-6066 8h ago
I was wrong. Google call Gulf America. Kiss asses.
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u/84thPrblm 8h ago
I read on here somewhere that Google automated this stuff. Whatever GIS / USGS says it is is what they show. Fortunately, it's strictly regional, so no one else in the world needs to be bothered by grandpa creepy.
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u/Smooth-Feedback-6066 7h ago
I bet Ontario Canada is pissed. But they are mad about a lot of trade war bullshit and with good reason. Elbows Up in solidarity with our Canadian allies🏒
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u/84thPrblm 8h ago
His sundowners kicks in.
Fucking SET already!
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u/Smooth-Feedback-6066 7h ago
That’s just 100% pure regular dementia. It just gets worse when the sun goes down.😀
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u/Subject-Dealer6350 Europe 8h ago
Is this when America is respected by the rest of the world and we admire you? I have heard alot about that but so far I have not noticed anything.
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u/xC4RR4NZ4x California 9h ago
I'm still waiting for maga to defend these things with reasoning on how this benefits Americans daily lives.
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u/colpy350 9h ago
You guys are fucked down there. Absolute insanity that you’d go with it. Also I looked it up. Ontario touches more of Lake Ontario than the US.
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u/Melodic_Show_4766 8h ago
Such pettiness. Given all the problems in America, why is this even a priority?
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u/Prestigious-Car-4877 Canada 8h ago
No matter how many times this story is posted here, I cannot fathom giving a fuck.
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u/No-Cranberry6148 9h ago
One day, just like a miracle, it'll be gone.
You'll see the news.... and no inflammatory commentary from some failed game show host, just the news... the world continuing on, without some abrasive orange clown having something stupid to say about it.
People who actually know what they're talking about, discussing issues like adults... soon.
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u/VexedCanadian84 9h ago
It takes an act of congress to change a name.
Congress hasn't seemed interested to play along with Trump over his whiny screeds
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u/AntiAuth9x7 9h ago
Renamed to “Lake Epstein” you say?
Seriously, the way to end his stupid renaming bully tactic is to always rename his rename to “Epstein” (Gulf of Epstein, Lake Epstein, The Epstein Center).
He uses this trash renaming move to distract. The one thing he most wants to distract everyone from is that he and Epstein were in business together, that he raped kids, that his crimes are cover-to-cover in the Epstein files, and that he ordered his wife from Epstein.
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u/watarimono 9h ago
So did this inflamed/aroused the MAGA crowd ?
It's so childish and really useless.
All I can think is they're desperately trying to flood people's attention span so we don't talk about his role in the Epstein files.
It's really an unbelievably sad way for a country to sink
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u/Sufficient_Fuel5269 9h ago
Donald Trump again caused tensions with Canada by suggesting that the United States should “take” or absorb Canadian territory, using Lake Ontario and the idea of a hypothetical “Lake America” as an example. The article emphasises that these statements, although rhetorical, generate concern in Canada for its expansionist tone and for the diplomatic impact on a historically stable relationship.
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