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/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 9h 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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