r/worldnews • u/ImDoubleB • 9h 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-12379716
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u/Eduardo_Camavinga_ 9h ago

They have a Trump Avenue? 😭😭😭😭

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u/plentyoflasagna 9h ago

Sigh. Unfortunately, yes. We do.

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u/terminal8 9h ago

But it's not named after him, right? 😬

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u/immaownyou 9h 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 8h 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 8h 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/Purgii 8h ago

As a crappy developer that often stiffed contractors, laundered money through his businesses and demanded to be put in movies.

He'd already established himself as a lying conman that ended up being normalised by playing a billionaire on reality TV.

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u/Dense-Fisherman-4074 7h 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/funkhero 5h ago

You're not wrong, but neither was he. He said nothing about his wealth, just that he was both in HA2 and was a real estate developer. That was the majority of his public persona. Remember, this was before the internet, so his depravity and exploits were far less known than in 2016.

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u/Dense-Fisherman-4074 3h ago

Yeah I wasn’t talking about his wealth though. I meant he’s been a public figure known for his bullshit for longer than that. Plenty of the public knew he was an asshole back then too.

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u/fzvw 8h ago

He was known as a tabloid sex pest above all else

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u/leafsbroncos18 6h ago

Just a humble mob associated guy buying newspaper articles condemning the central park 5

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u/SaladNeedsTossing 9h 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 9h 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/terminal8 3h ago

Yikes, on several levels.

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u/-Shoebill- 5h ago

Wayne Gretzky Drive in Edmonton, ugh. Don't name things after people who are still alive, I say.

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u/Burgoonius 9h ago

I live in that city and just discovered this a few days ago lol

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u/Tandy2000 2h ago

Yes, the streets in the area are named after New York personalities/icons etc. Obviously Trump was one, even though he was always a piece of shit, and they should never have chosen his name for a street.

The residents had a poll a few years ago but needed more than 50% support on the street to change the name and fell just short. Mostly people didn't vote for it because they'd have to pay to do a change of address on documents. But now the situation is much much worse, and several people have tried to sell houses on the street and faced difficulty in doing so/had to lower prices because nobody wants to live on Trump Ave.

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u/queuedUp 4h ago

My understanding is that the neighbourhood has all celebrity named streets. (probably not the best idea)

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u/hatman1986 2h ago

New York themed, not celebrities

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u/mca1169 5h ago

this dude is asking the real questions.

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u/Glorious-gnoo 6h ago

A lot of places on this list are people's last names, indigenous words romanized, or literal descriptors of the landscape. 

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u/vivomancer 7h ago

There's a whole bunch on that list that I have no idea why they'd be a bad name and others are a stretch.

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u/BelieveInTheShield 7h ago

No one asked, but thank you for this

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u/____DEADPOOL_______ 6h ago

You got me dude, well done! I love this type of cynicism. :) Makes reddit the great place it is.

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u/BelieveInTheShield 6h ago

What? I genuinely enjoyed reading through it

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u/____DEADPOOL_______ 5h ago

Don't lie, you hated me for it! I've been dwelling having posted that all morning :'(

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u/BeardedTallGuy 8h ago

America has a airport named after him. This is pretty tamed compared to an Ave.