Trump signs executive order to change Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” his latest escalation as he engages in a tense trade war with Canada.
“‘Lake of America’ was something I’ve been thinking about for a long time,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “We have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean. So, maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both.”
Surrounded by large maps of the Great Lakes, Trump said the name change was “effective immediately,” and that his staff had “filed all the necessary papers, documents, everything else.” A White House aide claimed the lake “has most of its volume in the United States” and that the “deepest parts” are in US territory.
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The dumbest fucking timeline
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https://youtu.be/NYJ2w82WifU?
Hey, remove that is= from the URL, it's leaking your Google ID.
Also, change this setting so it stops leaking your ID whenever you share a link.
Done. Thank you so much!
i've been manually removing them, but for some reason I don't seem to get the option like in the screenshot :/ urggg
It's best to still manually remove them so you don't leak tracking info. Google still sticks the tracking ID at the end, they just don't show your name to the world if you have it disabled.
Also good to turn off the share ID setting just in case you forget.
I wonder if it's a premium "feature"
ughhhh you're probably right 🙃
That is effing amazing.
Who is this guy?
It's from the movie. You should watch it, it's great.
Which movie?
I always watch YT videos straight, never visit the site.
The Dictator
Go watch Schitt's Creek right now
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645170/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542492/
He's one of my favorite actors. I loved his role in Outsourced. I know that show got some pushback for stereotypes, but for better or worse, he nailed it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1593756/
Be happy it's not Trump Lake. He's put his name on everything he can in this country. Just like a good dictator.
I love how he got minorly blocked from literally chiseling his name into the Kennedy Center, so now he's talking about demoing the whole thing. True abuser mentality - if I can't have it, nobody can have it.
I only just realized he renamed an airport after himself. Like, what the fuck did you do to deserve that?
He truly is envious of the authoritarians leaders in other countries.
I know people joke, but I truly hope he lives lot enough to see his legacy dismantled.
He lives close to it. That's all. My wife wants to take a cruise. I told her I will drive 1000 miles before I fly into Trump Airport.
Fuck Trump. Fuck Florida. Fuck Florida voters. I'll be honest sometimes I root for global warming to drown that useless fucking swamp under the waves.
/pardon my fucking French
I know he wants me to be pissed about this and he achieved his goal.
If this isn't the phrase of the year I don't know what is.
Just tell yourself that at the same time this was happening, the smartest people working for the Canadian government were planning how to best sanction all the red and swing states to deliver the most hurt.
The irony is I'm in a blue city in a red state. At this point though I'm fine with it. I'll survive on schadenfruede
Not exactly. The dumbest timeline has each lake renamed to the Make America Great Again Lakes from left to right on the map.
You all laugh, but think for a moment about the poor cattle rancher currently sitting on the toilet with his lettuce diarrhea, worried about the pending foreclosure of all he has and when the ivermectin is finally going to kick in for little Billy Jr's case of measles.
But then upon his porcelain throne he sees his dear leader with the courage and genius to redraw the name of the lake he didn't remember existed from its communist foreign name to a name he knows and can remember, because it's the name of where he lives and also two of his daughters.
And finally, for the first time since Obama's shadow government made him wear a mask in 2020 for the hoax pandemic that doctors claimed killed his elderly parents but everyone knew was just a flu and also engineered by Fauci for maximum damage — he knows.
He knows it's going to be okay.
That when Billy Jr beats this made-up measles thing and little America One and America Too and the whole family loses the ranch, that they can go to the Lake that is now their heritage by the only name they need to learn it.
And then he'll float, staring up into the heavens, finally at peace secure in the knowledge that at long last the greatest President since Jesus is cradling his heart and interests in his diminutive bruised hands, exhausted from all the renaming of water.
I enjoyed reading this, bravo👏
Why can't I find an obvious way to follow you and everything you post
I laughed so hard the first time I read this through I missed the whole last paragraph.
Was explaining the propaganda of that Great to be an American song to my son. He never heard it so pulled up the music video. I had never seen it just heard the song. But the video was just that. The man singing how great America is even has he is losing everything and becoming homeless. Pretty fuck up.
Every time that song comes up I like to point out that they guy who wrote it, Lee Greenwood, is a complete hack that has never done anything else noteworthy and has been living off the royalties ever since. He even re-wrote the lyrics, badly, to make a Canadian version to try and squeeze more cash out of that cow of a song.
hey, that's what they call me! Except they don't call me pretty.
Fun fact:
The mnemonic for the Great Lakes will also change from H-O-M-E-S to S-H-A-M-E, if you replace the O for Ontario with an A for America.
Just fucking die already god damnit.
The wrong 80 year olds keep dying!
But the possibility of the Home Alone 2 curse hitting seems to be growing by the day.
It's going to get worse when he dies. JD is smarter.
But nobody likes JD, he doesn't have cultish sycophants the same way trump does.
Oh yeah, he's real smart. "Hey, whatever works".
he can call it whatever he wants. The other 8 billion of us will still call it Lake Ontario.
It isn't even binding for Americans. He still doesn't have the power to do that. It's binding for his admin and some public institutions only. And he can bully some into obedience.
I'm sure google maps will be among the first to kiss his ass again. (or suck dick, whichever you prefer. verbally, I mean) Without any prodding.
Then how come when I zoom out on Google maps I can see the gulf of America?
Does it still show as gulf of Mexico when you're outside the US?
That was Google's choice, because they suck Trump's cock. It wasn't a legal requirement.
Like I said, sucking Trump's dick.
I don't use google maps, but Openstreetmap: yes, and only that.
Mate. Mate. Of course it shows as Gulf of Mexico if you're outside the US. Because that is its name. We're not into your country's weird fantasies, unless troops show up and we have to pretend.
It actually says both names globally, except if you’re in Mexico or the US
I really hope so but I just checked Apple and Google Maps and they both say “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” and I’m not even in the states… these stupid tech giants have no backbone
OpenStreetMap remains unchanged 😎
Who's the dev on this one? Ive never heard this recommendation before in the degoogle subs. Is it the "OsmAnd"?
Also, google maps in Canada still shows Lake Ontario and if it changes I'll be floored.
It’s not an app, it’s the largest crowdsourced mapping database. If you never heard of it, that’s sad…
So how do you use it on your phone? I'm new to a lot of this stuff and still learning, so I don't see it as sad at all and very good
You can go to OSM.org
Been a mapquest guy for years now
Not completely unchanged. Someone briefly changed the name before other editors restored it and moved Lake America to the official_name:en-US tag. That's been OSM's way of not quite placating people insisting on the name change.
Yeah sure you were, pedo
Did he dump his dead illegitimate children in this one, too?
His memory only lasts 5 minutes, so he's been thinking about it for as long as he can remember.
Probably since the first time Doug Ford make him run away with electricity tarriffs.
Worlds stupidest man and notorious con man changes name of lake, while still managing to escape charges of child trafficking.
Over 77 million Americans voted for this. They looked at Donald god damned Trump and said, "yeah, that's my guy." TWICE! Albeit it was non-consecutively, but I don't know if that makes it better or worse.
We live in a shit hole country, y'all. Shit-hole.
Dear leader says food and fuel is cheap! We love him!
Dear leader says it's gulf of amercia! We love him!
Dear leaders trade war isn't hurting farmers! We love him!
Dear leader says it is Lake of America now! We love him!
Dear leader says he isn't a pedophile! We love him!
The right wing just say things and it’s just a truth.
This is bait. Where are the Epstein Files? Why are we still in a failed elective war with Iran? Why are we having to use buy now, pay later for groceries? Renaming a lake is a distraction.
The Epstein Files will not be released. Too many Democrats, for one.
Also, the problem is not Dump, but citizens like the ones here, except for some like you, who allow themselves to be manipulated and baited in all his smoke screens.
"Making the Great Lakes Even Greater"
Man, "Lake America Great Again" is right there. Fucking amateurs
This is how it worked for the "Gulf of America," too. The president can't force map publishers to use his names. He can only force the career public servants in the federal government to use his names.
Google Maps (to name one of many) changed "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" of their own accord. And that will be the case this time, too, if Google follows through.
It has no force of law. Too bad Google Maps is so sycophantic that they'll go along with it.
Then Canada should block google IP addresses. Tax the shit out of them. Ban them
Meh, they have their own weird measurement system that no one understands. Let them use their own names for places and things and furtger alienate from the reat of tge world because they follow a senile racist pedo
They are an alphabet and genocidal Zionist and surveillance agency. Going along with it is the least of their crimes against humanity.
Note that the Canadian province is named after the lake; not vice versa.
So, this isn’t even the snub he thinks it is.
Yes, Trump is a complete moron, but this is particularly idiotic even by his extraordinarily idiotic standards.
iirc, the name 'ontario' predates the existence of the usa.. by 100 years.
Ah, so Ontario has to change its name to America now.
You can call it whatever you want you senile old shitstain, it's still Lake Ontario.
Sincerely yours, Canada.
(PS: I hope the White house fire system is up to code)
And I hope it's not. He already wrecked half of it, someone finishing the job is just poetic at this point.
"Senile old pedophile tries to rename stuff but nobody cares"
Senile old person tries to rename a lake after his failure at a trade deal with longtime ally in a failed attempt at a win for his repeated failure at a war he started
Unfortunately lots of sycophants will bend the knee and obey in advance.
Powerful people care and history always repeats itself as a farce
What does this asshole think executive orders are?
What does everyone else in the country think a president is??
After this is over Republicans should all be branded as criminals
MAGA should be declared a Domestic Terrorist Organization, and a serious, ongoing, active National Security Threat, and prohibited from existing.
Well... they're only slightly more organized than "Antifa", only because they all wear that hat.
They already are in my mind. Others should do the same. Write to leaders that we consider them as such. Regardless if they agree.
It's Lake Ontario, Gulf of Mexico.
cry baby president, needs a new map cause his feelings were hurt. pathetic.
Great, instead of HOMES we can remember the great lakes by SHAME
Holy fuck that’s good
Jesus Christ. This guy has like 2 thoughts. Tariffs and renaming things.
And painting stuff gold then claiming it's real gold leaf.
He's a classic narcissist. Born halfway between third and home, and thinks he hit a homerun because he's surrounded by yes-men who tell him what he wants to hear. And as someone else in this thread said, it's the typucal abuser mindset of "if I can't have it, nobody can".
Also: building monuments to his own greatness.
He's such a child.
Yeah that sounds like something a pedo rapist would do
Fuck that orange sack of shit so hard.
What a deplorably designed country that one person can do all this wasteful stuff. Way more wasted by this party than the fraud they like to point out in some places, and no peep on where it's actually worse. It's one part of the low-level thinking that high-control groups enforce, to keep people from asking questions and finding the evidence. For example that all the other rich countries pay much less for healthcare with better outcomes, get better worker benefits and satisfaction and all that makes healthier people than the usa system. It shows that they don't want that for everyone, just them and theirs, the selfish tradition is strong!
Ah man I needed a laugh today 🍁
Does he think EOs are laws? That's the only explanation I can come up with.
He's ruling by decree, and the legacy media enables it, despite its illegality.
We're living in a dickless-tatorship and nobody is willing to do the right thing.
Everybody sure acts like they are. IMO the entire idea of EOs needs to be abolished. Either get Congress to pass a law or it doesn't happen.
Surely this will bring prices down
The United States has already failed. At this point it's just waiting for a foreign adversary to push it over.
Lake epstien
So instead of remembering the Great Lakes by HOMES, we'll use SHAME. Fitting.
This was a joke someone said when they tried to rename the Gulf of Mexico, and if all their jokes become true, next one will be Trump's head in Mt. Rushmore.
Destroying that monstrosity would be a service.
Adding his mug is just one more reason to blow it to pieces....
Actually, we should just defer to whatever Očhéthi Šakówiŋ want to do.
Not possible. The rock is too unstable. There's no room for it.
Why would that stop him? Chisel one of the others off.
I said that when he announced he was going to put his own fat, pudgy, orange face on the $100 bill.
Hopefully his actual head.
You know, this really isn't fair to the other 160,000 lakes in the USA. Surely they all deserve to be known as "Lake America."
Such a pathetic Trumper Tantrum.
That’ll show ‘em!!
It’s the Onion, right?
I was trying to google whether or not The Onion ever had a satire story predicting this and I can't because google is returning a bunch of sites listing this news with comments like "I thought this was The Onion"....... lol...... :sigh:
I'm rather tired of this executive order nonsense. Can things really be changed so easily with an EO decree? If so, things are severely broken.
Not really, no.
Let’s say your name is John and for 200+ years everybody called you John. Then, along came a person we’ll call Captain Kiddiefucker.
Now Captain Kiddiefucker is a moron who wields significant power and directs everyone who’s too chickenshit to stand up to him that they should start calling you Guy.
Your name is still John, except now you have the advantage of easily recognizing Captain Kiddiefucker and his cult of pedophiles and idiots because they’ll all call you Guy.
That’s basically what this EO does.
So long as the Supreme Court and the Legislative Branch play along, like they are not supposed to, then yes. He makes a demand through EO and if the world around him goes along with it, that's all it really takes, people making the choice to agree to it. Then it's between the groups that go along or don't and which side eventually wins.
In another example, China successfully pressured various businesses and political groups change how they refer to Taiwan only a few years ago. They also just renamed various eastern Siberian cities from Russian to Mandarin names, in their own references. Whether this works is completely dependent on the world going along with it or not.
Next he’ll rename District of Columbia to District of America
It’s Columbia, not Colombia. But either way, it’s named after Columbus, which he has a bit of a hard on for, so that name is unfortunately safe.
Thanks for the correction
Can we just have one day without deplorable yank news?
I live here and I need it more than you.
Give it a few years. Our news is as bipolar as it gets. It will be positive eventually.
If you want no yank news at all... Well I have some bad news if you speak English and love on earth.
Well, look. This fascist fucking nazi shithead is, in fact, a fascist fucking nazi shithead, but I'll give him credit for killing the penny.
so.........
Technically, if you REALLY LOOK at a fucking globe, there is ONE ocean. So technically there's a case for calling it all one thing. So it's only stupid and ridiculous to rename it the American Ocean........ but really, it should be all one ocean :P that's my story and I'm sticking to it
(that's 5% serious and 95% fuck fascists) (well, 2% serious maybe)
Canada renames it sewage treatment plants to "Trump Ponds"
Oh for fuck's just sign an executive order to require everyone to call Trump the president with the biggest dick and let us be done with your phallus complex already. He is literally what happens when someone like Edward Tiny Balls Coristine becomes president; a double agent in every aspect, tons of self proclaimed sexual prowess and a phallic size complex.
"I can't accomplish anything of substance so I'll make idiotic stunts and hope my deluded supporters eat it up in Nov."
Acronym to remember the Great Lakes used to be -
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior: HOMES
Now with Trump it's -
Superior, Huron, America, Michigan, Erie: SHAME
There's no way he even knows which of the Great lakes that is. Don't pay any attention to anything that he says or does. He's just a demented old rapist.
He gets a lot done between diaper changes
What a dumb fuck.
In my house it'll be Lake Ontario to my Canadian friends and Lake Fascismo to everyone else.
he is so fucking braindead that he doesnt realise "great" means large in this context. fucking die already please
It's his projection to look powerful to his dwindling MAGA base because of his failure in Iran, along with the department of wars failure.
USA is a joke!
I hope they start selling jars of Lake America water so I can display it next to my gamer girl bathwater.
Carney should rename lake Michigan lake Canada, especially because it has no border with Canada (actually debatable, as Michigan and Huron are essentially the same lake as far as water goes).
No, he should not be a toddler and do real government work instead. No one cares what a demented old man wants to call a lake.
President with one foot on the grave, does things no one would do, because he has nothing to do with his life and because he will die.
Classy as ever, America.
FUCKING WASTE OF TIME
It's a distraction. The news isn't talking about Natalie anymore.
Makes sense....this guy is the worst.
Sure he did. I'm in the EU.
I fucking despise this piece of shit human. He's not my fucking President. He's a menace to society at large.
I wish he'd print these maps out so he can shove 'em up his arse.
We're the degens from the south country.
You were watching the yank news the other daaayyy...
Who do you file paperwork to rename things? Bureau of Naming Things?
Honestly I don't care anymore, the evil guys won. They're going to enact all of project 2025, it's too late to stop. The constant barrage of insane demoralizing news has worn me out. Which was part of their goal the entire time. It would be particularly pleasant if someone changed my mind.
Capitalism's final stage. Predictable. Inevitable. Terminal.
What comes next?
If half USA does nothing but scream in to the void(internet) about their current president, what you expect to happen ? Nothing.
I don't believe you get it, I don't care anymore. I hit my limit. What meaningful change do you really expect to happen at this point? The seeds are already sown.
Pathetic.
and a strait would be nice even though he doesn't use it or want it
Part of me is glad they didn’t decide to try to call it Lake Ohio.
It doesn’t touch the state of Ohio, but I sort of expected them to fuck that up.
Don't bother changing signage, it'll go back here soon.
Did he change the name for pedophile yes?
Based on his pattern they would be called: "People of America"
Sheesh. Ontario, New York is right there, and Wayne County in which it's located went bright red in 2024. Some people in Washington really need to learn how to manage a stupid narcissist without creating a bunch of work for everybody.
I mean, they already figured out that fig leafs work in the other direction.
For some reason he likes replacing these Native American based names with one of Italian origin.
Fart noises from his general direction.
May he choke on a bag of dicks
Someone get him a cereal box and some Crayons quick.
Imagine your boss asked what you'd done today and you showed him that he'd be fucking fuming.
His executive orders are meaningless to everyone except federal employees. Almost all teachers, almost all law enforcement except ICE and FBI are state employees. So he can executive order himself blue in the face, the citizens can ignore whatever he says. He can shove his executive order straight up his arse.
He's not a king, he's an administrator with limited power.