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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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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

He gets a lot done between diaper changes

[–] tacoplease@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 6 points 8 hours ago

The United States has already failed. At this point it's just waiting for a foreign adversary to push it over.

[–] catboy_slim@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 hours ago

So instead of remembering the Great Lakes by HOMES, we'll use SHAME. Fitting.

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 5 points 10 hours ago

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."

[–] Radical_Socialist_t00t@lemmy.ca 13 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

"Senile old pedophile tries to rename stuff but nobody cares"

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Unfortunately lots of sycophants will bend the knee and obey in advance.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

"I can't accomplish anything of substance so I'll make idiotic stunts and hope my deluded supporters eat it up in Nov."

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Canada renames it sewage treatment plants to "Trump Ponds"

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

USA is a joke!

[–] Alexfire@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

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!

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Can we just have one day without deplorable yank news?

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

I live here and I need it more than you.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 12 points 22 hours ago

It's Lake Ontario, Gulf of Mexico.

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

He's such a child.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Such a pathetic Trumper Tantrum.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It has no force of law. Too bad Google Maps is so sycophantic that they'll go along with it.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 22 hours ago

They are an alphabet and genocidal Zionist and surveillance agency. Going along with it is the least of their crimes against humanity.

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Then Canada should block google IP addresses. Tax the shit out of them. Ban them

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Prairie_Madness@lemmy.world 217 points 1 day ago (9 children)

The dumbest fucking timeline

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

Often described as ignorant, he changed over 300 Wadiyan words to "Aladeen," including the words "positive" and "negative," causing mass confusion.

Doctor: Do you want the Aladeen news or the Aladeen news?

Patient: The Aladeen news?

Doctor: You are HIV-Aladeen

https://youtu.be/NYJ2w82WifU?

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 64 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] kromem@lemmy.world 131 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 98 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Just fucking die already god damnit.

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[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Did he change the name for pedophile yes?

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 hours ago

Based on his pattern they would be called: "People of America"

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

he can call it whatever he wants. The other 8 billion of us will still call it Lake Ontario.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Trump has wide latitude over how the US government refers to geographic landmarks...

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.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

cry baby president, needs a new map cause his feelings were hurt. pathetic.

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (3 children)

“‘Lake of America’ was something I’ve been thinking about for a long time,"

Yeah sure you were, pedo

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 40 points 1 day ago

Worlds stupidest man and notorious con man changes name of lake, while still managing to escape charges of child trafficking.

[–] shirasho@feddit.online 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What does this asshole think executive orders are?

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[–] procrastitron@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Does he think EOs are laws? That's the only explanation I can come up with.

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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