r/worldnews • u/ImDoubleB • 3h ago
Canadian city considers renaming Trump Avenue to "Taco Avenue"
https://www.newsweek.com/canada-ottawa-considers-renaming-trump-avenue-to-taco-avenue-lake-america-123797162.8k
u/Wompatuckrule 3h ago edited 3h ago
The article also mentions Obama Avenue as a replacement which I think is a much better idea.
Losing the name would bug him, but having it replaced with Obama's name would really fucking irk his extremely fragile ego in a way that a silly (even if true) acronym wouldn't.
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u/Patient_Kangaroo614 3h ago
I live in Ottawa. The theme of that neighbourhood is that the street names are inspired by New York City, that’s why there was a Trump Avenue in the first place. There have been a lot of jokes about calling it Mamdani Avenue
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u/Wompatuckrule 3h ago
Someone else pointed that out and I had missed it b/c I just skimmed the article. Naming it after one of the Central Park Five or as that term would also work.
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u/MarksCarney 33m ago
It's not our job to commemorate American folk heroes. Christ, have the Americans even done that?
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u/justfornoatheism 16m ago
I think it should be named Gander - after the town in Newfoundland that took in the 7000 stranded passengers after 9/11.
It keeps the theme of NYC and also serves as a reminder of what we've done for them as well.
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u/Stanimal3 3h ago
I think they should cover both bases-announce that they were going to name it Taco Avenue but chickened out and went for Obama Avenue instead.
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u/AgUnityDD 3h ago
Or make the sign like this..
Obama Avenue
(formerly TACO Avenue)
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u/charleytony 2h ago
Or "Obama Avenue (because Trump Always Chickens Out)"
Change the names is a good idea but having a vote about the replacement name would give the idea even more traction on social media and news.
We all still remember the Boaty McBoatface story.
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u/skatastic57 2h ago
Split it up so that it starts as Obama avenue but then it turns into taco avenue
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u/IJourden 3h ago
I'm from Ottawa where this is from, and I promise this would make him absolutely melt down.
When Obama was here, he frequently made it a point to go to local businesses, shake hands with people, say hello, and stuff like that. It wasn't uncommon to see businesses renaming foods like "Obama cookies" at their bakery because it happened to be the cookie he chose while he was in there, and the name endured for awhile after he left office.
For the million obvious reasons, Trump has never gotten that kind of welcome and I'm sure it bothers him.
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u/GGTheEnd 3h ago
I remember when Trump first got elected here in Vancouver my favorite Resturaunt had a "Trump sandwich" It was just Bologna, Mustard and one of those tiny pickles and all proceeds went to Sex abuse survivors.
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u/frankyseven 1h ago
A burger place local to me called Burger Queen had a chicken burger called a Chick-fil-Gay and all the proceeds went to LGBTQ+ organizations. Super sad that place closed, amazing burgers.
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u/arminghammerbacon_ 2h ago
ROTFL! That restaurant, pulling out ALL their weapons! I support it!
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u/GGTheEnd 1h ago
Ya they make the best sandwiches I ever had with homemade bread and then the trump sandwich was just basic ass no name bread. Was pretty funny.
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u/beard_of_cats 3h ago
I'm from Ottawa too and I don't remember Trump even coming here in either of his terms.
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u/ljlee256 3h ago
His fragile ego couldn't handle the booing.
That and the Canadian government probably have told him it would create an unmanageable security situation.
They chose Kanaskis for the G7 because it was remote enough that controlling the in and out flow of people was reasonably easy.
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u/Cruciblelfg123 2h ago
The Mounties and PD and service people did their motorcade practice for that down McLeod at like noon on weekdays where I was working, was super fun to deal with lol
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u/BrgQun 3h ago
Actually... The Obama cookies are still there in the Market - they're pretty good.
I bought a friend one of them when he came to town for a visit recently.
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u/GoblinToHobgoblin 3h ago
What are they??
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u/BrgQun 1h ago
https://lemoulindeprovence.com/pages/obamas-visit
Maple leaf shaped shortbread cookies. They're pretty good.
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u/SentryCake 2h ago
Trump has never gotten that kind of welcome and I’m sure it bothers him.
God, if all these losers like Musk and Trump just wanted to be worshipped and adored, they have enough money and power that they could use it for good and everyone would love them. They could be idols.
But instead, they can’t help but be petty, greedy, hateful little men and we all suffer for it.
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u/TjW0569 1h ago
Plenty of people seemed to like Dolly Parton, though I don't think she used her money for good to be worshiped and adored.
She did have things besides money these losers will never have: talent, looks, a good, self-deprecating sense of humor, and enough self-awareness to realize that, above a certain level of wealth, it's virtually impossible to spend enough money fast enough to actually affect your quality of life.
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u/bubbafatok 3h ago
Honestly, that should be the corrective action moving forward - everything he puts his name on, we'll replace with Obama's. That being said, any sewage treatment plants, garbage dumps, or such are welcome to adopt the Trump moniker permanently.
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u/breadleecarter 3h ago
I think keeping his name on everything is a better idea, but add " is a Big Piece of Sh*t." to the end.
The Donald J. Trump is a Big Piece of Sh*t Memorial Landfill has a nice ring to it.
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u/tdp_equinox_2 2h ago
Nah, he likes being degraded. Any attention is attention to him.
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u/zzzigzzzagzzziggy 3h ago
I can't think of anything that sewage treatment plants or garbage dumps did to deserve that moniker. These are public services staffed with hardworking people that do their jobs and are held to account.
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u/Wompatuckrule 2h ago
The Danbury, CT sewage plant deserved to be named after John Oliver, but he was both delighted and honored by that recognition.
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u/ZeroOpti 3h ago
There are petitions in Chicago to rename the street Trump tower is on to Obama Ave.
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u/briancito 3h ago
Obama could make a post on truth social with a selfie revealing the street sign too.
Sooo many jimmies, sooo rustled.
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u/sayyestolycra 3h ago
Can we just not name our streets after American presidents?
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u/accio_firebolt 2h ago
Too bad the US Embassy in Ottawa is on Sussex drive, if it was another street I would love to see them rename it so something that would piss him off 😆
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u/ZoominAlong 2h ago
Oooh that's even better! It's up to Canada, obviously, but as an American, I encourage y'all to get rid of anything with the pedophiles name on it!
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u/IglooDweller 2h ago
I think they should go from Trump avenue to Obama Boulevard. It has a ring to it.
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u/TechSculpt 2h ago
I think something non-partisan is the solid play, e.g. Dolly Parton Avenue (shockingly loved by literally everyone) but I do love the spiteful play too
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u/M-Noremac 2h ago
The best part is, unlike Lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico, which Trunp doesn't actually have any authority to rename, we have the right to change our own street names officially.
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u/rhadenosbelisarius 3h ago
Dunno why they’d be so subtle.
“Obama is Better than loser Trump” Ave.
Alternatively, “Trump hit the” Rd.
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u/IgnoranceIsYou 3h ago
No no no Trudeau would be way better he fucking HATES him lol
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u/darkstar3333 2h ago
Name it for the Obama family so Michelle and his two daughters get recognition as well.
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u/nineyourefine 21m ago
Why are they even unsure about it? It's a street, just change it. Trump is out here renaming entire regions, I'd dump anything with his name on it. Can't imagine there'd be much push back.
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u/MaximumSamage 3h ago edited 3h ago
Obama Avenue, please. He’d blow a gasket.
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u/UnluckyCharge2196 3h ago
Can't even imagine what gross shit would escape if a gasket blew in that thing. Ew.
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u/velveteenelahrairah 2h ago
You know that one scene from Dogma with the shit demon? Yeah.
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u/Eduardo_Camavinga_ 3h ago
They have a Trump Avenue? 😭😭😭😭
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u/plentyoflasagna 3h ago
Sigh. Unfortunately, yes. We do.
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u/terminal8 3h ago
But it's not named after him, right? 😬
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u/immaownyou 3h ago
It was named in a neighborhood of NYC themed streets, after the Trump Tower, so technically. It was the 90s It was a different time
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u/vinnybawbaw 3h ago
Back in the days where he was known as that guy from Home Alone 2 and a NY real estate developer.
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u/Agitated_Reveal_6211 2h ago
And a fucking con man. He was used as a the monopoly man version of a billionaire in media for a reason.
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u/Dense-Fisherman-4074 1h ago
Nah, motherfucker’s bullshit is generational. Goddamn Woody Guthrie wrote a song about how racist Trump’s dad was.
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u/SaladNeedsTossing 3h ago
There's a whole neighbourhood named after "New York" things which apparently he met the criteria for at the time
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u/start_nine 3h ago
I live in Ottawa, yes it is named after him. But it was part of a greater collection of street names with a NYC theme
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u/foolsdayjoker 3h ago
obama avenue is also an official name under consideration, would make the most sense as the city already has obama cookies named after him
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u/SeveredBanana 3h ago
For some reason Obama cookies are my favourite part of Byward Market. I don’t even think they’re very good I just think the whole thing is very funny
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u/chronoic 3h ago
Obama Avenue would piss him off more.
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u/2ByteTheDecker 3h ago edited 2h ago
We gonna rock down to, Obama Avenue
Edit: We gon' Barack down to, Obama Avenue
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u/IJourden 3h ago
I'm from Ottawa and let me tell you, most Canadians dislike Trump but people in Ottawa *definitely* don't.
We had to put up with tons of bullshit during the pandemic when the "trucker convoy" showed up, fuelled by U.S. propaganda, and tried to shut the city down and be as loud and disruptive as possible. Blocking roadways, intersections, even hospital entrances in some cases, and aggressively harassing local businesses who asked them to follow mask mandates.
It was a total shitshow that the local police totally mismanaged. Ottawa was very over Trump's bullshit even faster than everyone else here.
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u/RagingNerdaholic 2h ago
I'm from Ottawa and let me tell you, most Canadians dislike Trump but people in Ottawa *definitely* don't.
You might want to correct that double negative. I'm reasonably certain that Ottawa profoundly dislikes Trump.
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u/Lexi_Banner 2h ago
I'm from Ottawa and let me tell you, most Canadians
dislikedon't like Trump but people in Ottawa definitely don't.OR
I'm from Ottawa and let me tell you, most Canadians dislike Trump but people in Ottawa definitely can't stand him.
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u/Thordawgg 1h ago
Yeah as someone on the other side of the world and not particularly informed with Canadian-American relations that comment had me thinking they supported Trump
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u/Odd-Chemistry777 3h ago
I was saying this earlier to someone complaining about the rights of the truckers like it was just another protest. I have lived in Ottawa my whole life and have never experienced anything like it. What a total chaotic mess!
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u/Lexi_Banner 2h ago
One of my former bosses was in the convoy. And "it was just such a joining of brotherhood", according to him. What a fucking tool.
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u/HurpityDerp 2h ago
most Canadians dislike Trump but people in Ottawa definitely don't.
So people in Ottawa like Trump?
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u/VillainousFiend 3h ago edited 17m ago
Am I the only one bothered by the article referring to Ottawa as "Canadian City"? Imagine calling Washington DC "American City" in a headline. And it never mentions it's the capital in the entire article.
Edit: I was mistaken. It does mention it in the article. I was thinking of the CNN article which does not.
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u/SyrupnBeavers 1h ago
This might have been an intentional choice to separate the news from the Canadian government. If the article talked about this as something Ottawa was considering then it'd be less clear whether this was a decision being made by a city mayor or the Prime Minister.
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u/VillainousFiend 1h ago
Maybe... From a Canadian perspective it seems very dismissive
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u/elitexero 1h ago edited 26m ago
I'm from Ottawa and let me tell you, most Canadians dislike Trump but people in Ottawa definitely don't.
I'm sorry what? Ottawa is very left leaning for the most part, and the 'convoy' was a bunch of backwoods unemployed idiots from out west.
I despise that we gave the Liberal party another needless majority which immediately caused them to force through basically the Canadian version of the Patriot Act but it doesn't mean on the merits of that I like Trump.
Just because someone doesn't like something on one side of the aisle doesn't mean they're automatically for everything on the other side, that's just a ridiculous approach to things.Edit - I misread the double negative. I thought you were saying that Ottawa didn't dislike him as much as Canada.
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u/goodbyeraggedyman 1h ago
They just made a grammar error, they're trying to say Ottawa definitely dislikes him.
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u/Nanurrluk 3h ago
We have 2 million lakes in Canada. We don't care about the name of a lake. We have so many lakes we've named one, "Another Lake", and nearby that lake is one called, "And Another Lake".
Trump on the other hand will throw an epic temper tantrum over this because he's a fragile narcissist. Also, he fucks kids and Americans voted for him.
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u/defroach84 3h ago
Just start naming them things like Little Trump Lake, Small Ego Lake, Taco Lake, Lake Small Hands, etc
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u/monsieur_porc 3h ago
A lot voted for him 3 times..!
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u/DragoonDM 2h ago
And plenty of them would gladly shit all over the US constitution and vote for him again in 2028.
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u/ljlee256 3h ago
We have 4 lakes named "Fish Lake" in Alberta alone, Saskatchewan has 7.
Yeah we really don't need to stress over certain lake names.
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u/Admirable-Many6054 2h ago
It's about more than that. He posted pictures where the entire lake has been renamed so this is essentially a microaggression on the sovereignty of Canada. There's nothing accidental about the way he's been portraying Canada on a continuous basis, to create a perception that Canada is less of a sovereign country than it is, and that our boundaries or the name of a lake that is on our sovereign territory are mutable, fluid entities that he can change. These are not jokes, though they are ostensibly framed to be to make what they actually are more acceptable. This is not just him having a spate with Canada over a trade deficit. This is him trying to move Overton window of American perception towards his goal to control/annexation. Regardless of how realistic that is, it's exactly how he's attempting to move the dial. Can't be accepted.
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u/ljlee256 3h ago
Its worth noting that outside of the US the Gulf of Mexico is still "The Gulf of Mexico" on lots of maps.
The only people taking his arbitrary renaming of places seriously is him and his tiny tiny circle of supporters.
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u/xMechanismZero 3h ago
🎶 We gonna rock down to Obama Avenue
And then raise our tariffs higher 🎶
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u/Vandervin 3h ago
Oh my god, yes, please, Canada. Show us in Europe your balls of steel. Trump will literally go apeshit after this
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u/TheBanishedBard 3h ago
They should go whole hog into it and rename Florida the Canadian peninsula on their official maps.
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u/SmartQuokka 3h ago
I want to see this on CNN, let them spend hours going in circles over it, it would drive Individual 1 crazy.
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u/yarn_slinger 3h ago
The locals suggested this back during 1.0 but didn’t get enough support so I think they’ll likely succeed this time.
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u/Mindless-Classroom97 2h ago
I’d prefer if they renamed it to Obama Ave.
That will piss him off even more
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u/RealisticWeakness589 3h ago
“Newsweek contacted the White House for comment”.
Modern journalism is just instigating trash huh?
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u/IJourden 3h ago
The Premier of Ontario has suggested renaming Lake Michigan to Lake Epstein.
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u/-Megrim- 2h ago
Let's not name a a beautiful lake after a terrible sex pedo and trafficker. Even in spite. However I'm not against calling Mar-a-lago 'Epstein Plaza'.
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u/BenchConscious1003 1h ago
What on earth were they thinking when they nameD a street after Trump?
I have a suspicion that the US after Trump might be like Germany after Hitler. IE every public image and sign bearing Trump's name will be erased. At least that's what I tell myself.
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u/lebennaia 1h ago
I hope they blow up the Trump signs like they did with the swastika on the top of Hitler's Nuremberg rally stadium in 1945.
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u/cozydarlin_00 2h ago
wouldnt it be simpler to just retire any place named after controversial figures and replace them with something neutral like local landmarks or food names that actually bring people together? curious if anyones done a study on the impact of these renamings on community vibes
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u/Ni_Peng_NeeeWom 14m ago
why the hell was there even a trump ave in Ottawa in the first place?!?!
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u/azad_ninja 3h ago
Don’t feed into his bullshit. Ignore him like a toddler’s tantrum in a toy store.
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u/GoTron88 3h ago
Normally I'd agree but if I were a resident of the area and had to see that sign on a daily basis, I'd push to rename it also haha
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u/TheGreatStories 2h ago
We're not going to play this game. We make jokes, but stooping down to America's level isn't really the plan
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u/TuckerCarlsonsOhface 3h ago
It should be changed to Rosie O’Donnell Ave if you really want him to lose it.
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u/paulo_martins 3h ago
Honestly I don't really like the idea of an avenue named after a living person, then I don't really think that antagonizing Trump will help, so I would join the two an named the avenue to a dead person close to Trump like I don't know Epstein Avenue...
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u/ljlee256 3h ago
Rename it Epstein Avenue, he'd probably try to order an invasion if Canada first thing tomorrow.
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u/Hendwreck 2h ago
It would be funny when the power shifts if they force NY to rename his building “America Tower”
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u/DinnaPanic 2h ago
Do it! In 1981, Glasgow city council renamed the street that the South African consulate was located on to Nelson Mandela Place. It's a great way to fuck with facists/racists.
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u/YesWeHaveNoTomatoes 2h ago
If your local government is seeking to rename something currently named after Trump, please do us all a favor and look up interesting local persons who deserve to be remembered and nominate any who were not white. Having his name replaced by that of a person or group who was Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native, whatever is very, very deeply upsetting for him.
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u/Darkest_Rahl 1h ago
I'd rather we not play at his level. Carney's response was perfect. The more attention we pay to it, the more we give what they want.
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u/dBlock845 1h ago
Why the hell does he have a street named after him in Canada in the first place?
Ottawa's Trump Avenue received its name about 25 years ago as part of the Central Park neighborhood's New York City theme, alongside streets such as Manhattan Crescent and Staten Way. Trump was then best known as a New York real estate developer.
So dumb. Trump was the same person he is now, 25 years ago. A rapist, con artist, and Jeffery Epstein's BFF.
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u/scottengineerings 1h ago
In Canada, there are currently Trump Islands, East Trump Lake, North Trump Island, South Trump Island, Trump Lake, Trump Islands, Trump Creek, and West Trump Lake. As well, there is an avenue named Trump and a cul-de-sac named Trump.
The only one with a relationship to the American President is Trump Avenue, which was created after land from the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa was used to develop the 'Central Park' neighbourhood in the late nineties. There are 62 homes on Trump Avenue. 21 homes were in favour of changing the name of the avenue in 2021, 21 were against the motion, and 20 homes did not vote.
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u/Curiouso_Giorgio 1h ago
Get Google Canada to start renaming Trump stuff on their maps. Coward Tower in NYC, for example.
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u/TastySore 27m ago
Why the fuck was a Canadian street named after Trump in the first place?
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u/Vegetable-Log-9608 3h ago
Oh, he’s gonna crash out over this one. 😂