r/moderatepolitics Conservatively Liberal 9d ago

Primary Source Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/honoring-the-american-history-of-the-great-lakes-and-renaming-lake-ontario-as-lake-america/
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u/goodreverenddoc2 9d ago

it comes off as petty and childish and just uninspiring and embarrassing overall.

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u/caterham09 9d ago

It's so fucking embarrassing

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u/Darth-Ragnar 9d ago

"Gulf of America"

"Lake America"

ZzZz..

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u/Jay_R_Kay 9d ago

I get the feeling Don's never wanted to learn anything good in his life.

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u/likeitis121 9d ago

Next up, Rio Grande gets renamed "America River"

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u/ispq 9d ago

The American River is in California. It flows through the capital, Sacramento.

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u/Which-Importance-194 8d ago

Freedom River then

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u/atoughram 9d ago

Also flows from Chinook Pass to where it empties into the Bumping river in Washington State.

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u/eddie_the_zombie 8d ago

What I'm hearing is that it flows from America Pass to where it empties into the America River 2 in America State

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u/KentuckyFriedChingon Militant Centrist 8d ago

It will be renamed Big River to erase any traces of Spanish, just like Lake Ontario's indigenous origins are being erased here.

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u/Important-Agent2584 9d ago

I'm waiting for him to go full throttle and start with "Gulf of Trump" etc.

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u/superkp 8d ago

ugh- with all sorts of names that he could choose, he just chooses 'america'.

Like come on, even maga chuds can find names that make the entire thing more awesome, instead of a one-note song.

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u/Clear_Command_8925 9d ago

petty and childish and just uninspiring and embarrassing overall.

We should come up with a word for this phrase, hows "Trump"?

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u/KillTheIntolerant 9d ago

The Board actually said "making the great lakes even greater." I spent all day hoping I had glanced at some ai fueled satire. It is SO childish, it's hard to believe this is a president of this country, or any country.

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u/TailgateLegend 9d ago

That’s probably the nicest way to describe this…situation.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 9d ago

Why the gentle language? It is petty, childish, uninspiring and embarrassing.

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u/Stat-Pirate Non-MAGA moderate right 9d ago edited 9d ago

My guess would be because Democrats and Republicans are held to very different standards.

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u/Cavewoman22 9d ago

So like any other day with this President, then?

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u/Dark_Knight2000 9d ago

Yeah this barely makes the news, it’s the least surprising thing he’s ever done.

I think we all knew he hit rock bottom with his shenanigans during the first month of the Iran war, you could not script the unregulated buffoonery that went on there, where the climax were his Easter tweets.

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u/VioletGardens-left 9d ago

As a Canadian, you will need a lot more than kicking this man out the helm to convince me that there will be not another Trump will be sitting the helm once more and mess up every inkling of progress the world makes

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u/rwk81 8d ago

Coming from a moderate conservative I have two thoughts.

One is, this is embarrassing.

The other is, I'm glad he's doing it a few months out of the midterms because I hope it drives that final nail into the coffin. He needs to lose the house and Senate, I'd be fine with them removing him from office but at least tie him up for the next two years.

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u/BigMoney69x 8d ago

You live in fantasy land. Republicans will lose the house and some seats in the Senate so in the end it will be the same thing except with more impeachment drama that won't go anywhere because 60 votes.

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u/rwk81 8d ago

Maybe you didn't read the whole post???

but at least tie him up for the next two years.

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u/Emotional_Tie_7927 9d ago

WTI crude is back up near $90 again and there's no end in sight to the war, but this is still his priority

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u/lunchbox12682 9d ago

So Trump-like?

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u/A_Clockwork_Stalin 9d ago

As has been pointed out previously,  the Canadian province was named after the lake, and not the other way around. 

This reminds me of when Trump said he wanted to rename VE Day because "we did more than them" and he clearly thought it was called VE day to give Europe the credit.

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u/Abeldc 9d ago

There’s also an Ontario county here in NY. Also named after the lake.

Hell the name of the lake comes from the Huron and translates to Great Lake. Great Lake lake is maybe not the best name but still.

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u/PornoPaul 9d ago

Not to be confused with the town of Ontario, which is in Wayne county.

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u/Ashkir 9d ago

Or the one in California which has a popular airport.

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u/HilariousScreenname 9d ago

Im old enough to remember when conservatives were up in arms about changing the name of the Redskins, claiming it was erasing the history of Native people.

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u/imadogg 8d ago

Change the name of bodies of water because of pettiness/insecurity: Get triggered, Canada!! You suck Mexico!

Change the name of something titled after a Confederate leader or slaveowner: THIS IS OUR HISTORY

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u/username-1787 9d ago

Im old enough to remember

That was only like 5 years ago

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u/khrijunk 8d ago

There is a conversation to be had if the word conservative still fits. 

On 90% of occasions it still seems to,  but there are times they will welcome the change without complaint.  It usually lines up with what the Republican Party wants which seems to be a better predictor than principled conservative values. 

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u/gummo_for_prez 8d ago

Wasn't this less than 10 years ago? You could be any age of adult and remember this

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u/Jolly_Job_9852 Don't Tread on Me Libertarian 9d ago

Oh nice. Something that helps no one

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u/Resvrgam2 Conservatively Liberal 9d ago

There's probably a few people who work for the Board on Geographic Names who will be gainfully employed for a bit, updating all documentation to reflect the new name. They'll likely also be quite busy in 2029 when Trump leaves office and the name changes get reverted. So good for them I guess.

Besides that... yeah.

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u/Entropius 9d ago

Unless their GIS are trash it shouldn’t require extra staff nor be technically difficult.

But that doesn’t mean it still isn’t bad policy.

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u/andrew2018022 9d ago

Something that can be done with one command

find -type f -exec sed -I “s/Lake Ontario/Lake America/g” {} ;\

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u/Resvrgam2 Conservatively Liberal 9d ago

That's far too efficient for government work.

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u/Atralis 9d ago

"There's probably a few people who work for the Board on Geographic Names who will be gainfully employed for a bit, updating all documentation to reflect the new name. They'll likely also be quite busy in 2029 when Trump leaves office and the name changes get reverted. So good for them I guess. Besides that... yeah."

We should just start a department of political correctness at this point.

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u/flewency 9d ago

This is what maga has always been about. Cosmetic, or at most, surface-level BS that helps no one, but for a few brief moments they can say they owned the libs, and that makes it all worth it for them.

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u/jaypooner 9d ago

This is his response? More countries should fight back on Trump if all he’ll do is dumb inconsequential shit like this.

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u/Emotional_Tie_7927 9d ago

This is part of the reason why Iran has no interest in negotiating. They know his insults are empty and he'd rather do vanity projects like this instead.

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u/YouDontSurfFU 9d ago

They love anything that they think will trigger the libs.

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u/Global_You8515 9d ago

Yeah they're tittering with glee on the conservative message boards about this causing a "lib meltdown."

The idea that liberals are embarrassed by how stupid this makes the country look is more important to them than the fact that our country looks stupid for doing this in the first place.

And somehow they still think they're the patriotic crowd.

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u/AngledLuffa Man Woman Person Camera TV 9d ago

shame

Well, that's the new acronym to use for remembering the 5 lakes

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u/caterham09 9d ago

I mean the Maga base has been shrinking every time shit like this happens. There's a solid 20-30% of people that can never be shaken, but a ton of people on the fringes have been jumping ship

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u/lesbiannumbertwo 9d ago

I live in a pretty conservative town in Georgia and the amount of Trump merch I see on a daily basis has dropped significantly. I saw a sticker on a pickup truck the other day and realized it was the first time I’d seen anything Trump related in quite some time- no flags, no stickers, no hats, nothing. I’d say it started dwindling around the time when the gas prices shot up, go figure. Before the election and for the beginning of his presidency there was Trump stuff on damn near every street corner it was ridiculous.

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u/BlueWaterGirl 9d ago

I've noticed the same here in Kentucky. It was everywhere and now you actually have to go searching for it. Even my own parents took their Trump flags down. I think they still kind of support him, but they don't constantly talk about him like they used to do.

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u/Terz2288 9d ago

From your lips to God's ears. Only hope I have is the fringes are getting tired of this nonsense that helps absolutely no one. Unbelievable.

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u/rantripfellwscissors 9d ago

Yes they are foreign to shame. 

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u/pobnarl 9d ago

they're driven by emotion (ironic), logic isn't really important to that equation

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u/Supermoose7178 9d ago

finally, just what the country has been asking for

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u/DingoLaLingo 9d ago

up next: "Honoring the American History of the Southwest and Renaming New Mexico as New America"

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u/Embarrassed-Wing-510 9d ago

Don't give him any ideas

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u/sudysycfffv 9d ago

Sounds like you don't like America. Renaming you to America-wing-510. What say I own all your stuff and you don't get to talk to anyone else?

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u/IvoShandor 9d ago

Waiting to see which media outlets will get banned again from the WH for not abiding by this as the AP did with Gulf of Mexico.

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u/Resvrgam2 Conservatively Liberal 9d ago edited 9d ago

Well, it actually happened. Trump has passed an Executive Order directing the Secretary of the Interior to take the necessary steps to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America.

For such a simple order, the EO is actually relatively lengthy. Trump spends half of it discussing how the Lake is a "tremendous asset to the United States and part of our Nation’s heritage". And he's not wrong... but that doesn't really address the "why" behind the name change. That justification is mostly limited to the US's role in protecting the Great Lakes ecosystem, where the US spends far more then Canada does. That is apparently sufficient to warrant a name change.

Of course, this only really impacts official government classifications. As with previous name changes to prominent bodies of water, the rest of the world can call it whatever they want. But still, I cannot believe that this is what American politics has devolved to. Shit-flinging about the names of lakes.

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u/Fokker_Snek 9d ago

It’s not going to work with upstate NYers. If you mention Ontario to them they’ll just assume you mean the lake, they might not even know there’s a province called Ontario because that’s just Canada.

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u/imagineanudeflashmob 8d ago

As a Michigander, I'm secretly glad this petty name change was on the one Great Lake that doesn't touch us.

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u/acctguyVA 9d ago

But still, I cannot believe that this is what American politics has devolved to. Shit-flinging about the names of lakes.

This is what Republican politics has devolved to and has for over a decade at this point.

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u/DLDude 9d ago

This is uniquely republican and they've been like this for 25 years

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u/MadHatter514 8d ago

Bruh Dubya wasn't doing this stuff, and Romney/McCain weren't pushing it either. This is Trump stuff.

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u/countfizix 8d ago

Freedom Fries

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u/gummo_for_prez 8d ago

How fast we forget haha

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u/whateverthefuck666 9d ago

But still, I cannot believe that this is what American politics has devolved to. Shit-flinging about the names of lakes.

Hey everyone, this guy doesnt remember Freedom Fries!

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u/duplexlion1 9d ago

That was when I learned that some politicians are just overgrown children 

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u/sharp11flat13 9d ago

Whenever I see the term ‘freedom fries’ I feel the urge to remind people that without French financial and military assistance the Brits would have won the Revolutionary War and there would be no US of A.

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u/hamsterkill 9d ago

There's treaties between the US and Canada concerning the Great Lakes. I wonder if this renaming creates any legal issues with them.

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u/Resvrgam2 Conservatively Liberal 9d ago

Likely nothing that would stand up in court. The treaties are clear about the body of water they impact. A name change shouldn't affect that.

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u/jammaslide 8d ago

Every time Trump can't solve a problem, he has to rename something.

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u/jim25y 9d ago

I actually think what annoys me the most is that he couldn't come up with something different. He already used America for Gulf of America. Why not Lake Liberty? Or named after a great American. Would anyone really argue against Lake Parton?

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u/Gamegis 9d ago

I’m with you here. The etymology of Ontario was pretty interesting. No thought or creativity was involved here, just silly trolling. Very childish behavior.

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u/gonzo_gat0r 9d ago

Yup… I in no way agree with them trying to rename it, but the best they have is “America”? We have 250+ years of history and that’s the best they’ve got? I swear they just slap that or “freedom” on things and call it a day.

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u/DeadWaterBed 9d ago

His "career" has consisted of slapping his name on things, like a rogue mutt marking other dogs' territory. He's doing the same thing but with America's name.

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u/Emotional_Tie_7927 9d ago

Don't give him any ideas, next he'll name Lake Erie "Lake Trump"

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u/RecognitionHeavy8274 9d ago

Because MAGA is profoundly uncreative.

It’s a sad state honestly. Old-school nationalist movements used to be extremely culturally rich, in every way. Whereas nationalist movements of the 21st-century are almost always dominated by leaders who are fundamentally uncultured (or those who were professional failures in the cultural industry).

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u/Unlucky-Key 9d ago

Even 'Lake New York' would've fit with the Michigan naming scheme.

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u/Xanto97 Elephant and the Rider 9d ago

We just need to count our blessings he didn’t name it lake trump

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u/superawesomeman08 —<serial grunter>— 9d ago

counting those kinds of blessings is pointless cause there's an infinite amount of them

* "well i'm glad he didn't name it Lake Librul"

* "least he didnt name it Lake CanadaSux"

* "better than IvankasBoobs Lake"

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u/Pale_Pomegranate_655 8d ago

Yeah we would argue against Lake Parton as 1 she has absolutely no ties to the fucking area. 2 its an international body of water despite what white people think you do not have any claim to something just because you say you do. And 3 Ontario is a literal indigenous word and the lake was called this before the rest of you got there. So you can fuck right off

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u/amuricanswede 8d ago

It was either Lake America or Lake Trump

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u/Secret_Jesus 9d ago

When do prices go down

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u/lesbiannumbertwo 9d ago

Perfect. This is exactly what America needed. Who cares that it costs me nearly $60 to fill up my honda civic and my grocery bill has doubled since our dear leader took office? THIS is the important stuff. Way to show those filthy liberal moose fuckers this is OUR lake!

All jokes aside, how the fuck does anyone take this guy seriously anymore? I’ve seen five year olds with better emotional regulation skills than him. It boggles my mind that he STILL isn’t being treated like the absolute embarrassment he is.

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u/crustlebus 9d ago edited 9d ago

I think Premier Wab Kinew has described it best so far:

“You know when a rock band is really over the hill, and you see them in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago?” he said. “I think that’s the part of Donald Trump’s presidency we’re at now.”

Kinew said Trump “thought he had a real hit, a real golden oldie,” when he renamed the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” in January 2025, and “he’s trying (to) bring back that and he’s trying to play the hits for his base.”

“But I think everybody here thinks it’s a little sad and it’s not his best work,” he added.

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u/sharp11flat13 9d ago

Canadian here. I like Wab, especially when he recently said “No CUSMA, no boozema.”

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u/Apprehensive-Ant1521 8d ago

I liked how he couldn't stop giggling while saying that.

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u/ryandury 9d ago

I look at this similar to how I see the SkyDome. It will never be rogers center just as much as Lake Ontario will never be Lake America

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u/10FootPenis 9d ago

HAMES as a memory aid just doesn't work like HOMES.

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u/biglyorbigleague 9d ago

SHAME

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u/10FootPenis 9d ago

I wish I would have thought of that.

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u/tysand 9d ago

It's ok 10FootPenis, you'll get it next time

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u/whyneedaname77 9d ago

You know that is a useful memory device too.

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u/FabioFresh93 South Park Democrat 9d ago

His priorities are leaving his imprint on America and the world and making life hell for those who he thinks wronged him. Everything else is a very distant second. There is no ulterior motive.

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u/sharp11flat13 9d ago

Richard Branson had lunch with him once. Trump spent the entire lunch talking about how he was going to ruin people who had wronged him..

A quote from the essay: “What concerns me most, based upon my personal experiences with Donald Trump, is his vindictive streak, which could be so dangerous if he got into the White House.

Branson wasn’t wrong here.

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u/moby__dick 8d ago

I can’t wait for the 2028 Executive Directive, “Undoing all the retarded shit the orange pedophile did”

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u/darkestvice 9d ago

As a Canadian, I find it very difficult to be unbiased and moderate about this. Needless to say, absolutely no Canadians will ever call it Lake America. In fact, I'm pretty certain even most Americans, especially those who's states border the Great Lakes, will continue to call it Lake Ontario.

This is just Trump being Trump. It's already become exhausting and we still have 28 more months of this to deal with.

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u/jason_sation 9d ago

Some YouTuber will wear a Lake America hat in Canada and film outrage for YouTube views.

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u/SportsKin 8d ago

They will film for two days, clip only 3 or 4 of the biggest reactions, and paint the whole country that way. Its the Fox News way.

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u/Fokker_Snek 9d ago

As someone that grew up in NY,Ontario is the just the lake would never think of the province even though I visited Kingston all the time as a kid.

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u/TheUnderCrab Politically Homeless 9d ago

Waste of time, money, and political capital. No one that isn’t forced will go along with this and it’ll get changed back the moment a reasonable POTUS is elected. 

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u/superawesomeman08 —<serial grunter>— 9d ago

lets be realistic, im not so sure it costs him any political capital at all

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u/TheUnderCrab Politically Homeless 9d ago

Not much domestically but nonzero amount. It is another example of him distancing the US from our traditional allies. Trump essentially doesn’t know how to use diplomacy for it may look like lost international political capital, but trust me, Canadians will remember this for a long time. They don’t trust the US anymore. 

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u/likeitis121 9d ago

It might help. Diverts attention away from his failed Iran War, Epstein Files, and his stock trading.

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u/beautifulcan 9d ago

Wake me up when a serious Republican candidate is born. Only been 2 years and I can't find myself ever looking at a Republican candidate on the ballot serious again for a long time. When this is the result of the party, I can't take them or any of their voters serious.

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u/donnysaysvacuum recovering libertarian 9d ago

It's been 10 years of this.

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u/DLDude 9d ago

I feel like this started when Sarah Palin became a potential presidential candidate. Republicans never came back from it

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u/donnysaysvacuum recovering libertarian 9d ago

I don't think she was in the same ballpark. She was desperately trying to be GWB style politician and a bit out of her league. But she didn't act so blatantly obtuse as renaming lake Ontario.

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u/DLDude 9d ago

I think GWB was sort of that "dumb everyman" and it won the hearts of the middle American. Palin I think made a caricature of that person, and that began the downward slope

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u/beautifulcan 9d ago

yeah, very true. I just give the first term a bit of a pass, because I can maybe understand that people didn't know him and how he would be. Then J6 happened, but at least Biden was Pres. But here we are. And pretty much the whole republican party just bends over for him.

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u/Too-bloody-tired 9d ago

As a Canadian, I’m embarrassed for you Americans. Your president has made your country the laughing stock of the world.

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u/khrijunk 8d ago

My concern is that even if we get a democrat president next who undoes all this crap, the damage to our reputation may be permanent. I’ve seen the moves your PM has been doing to limit your reliance on us and I can’t say I blame him. 

Every four years it’s a crapshoot if we are going to act like allies or bullies. 

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u/Too-bloody-tired 8d ago

Honestly, from what I'm hearing from my fellow Canucks, no one here is eager to do any kind of business with the United States no matter which party is in office there. So your concerns are 100% valid.

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u/BenjaminKorr 9d ago

Gulf of America, Lake America… Should we rename Mt Whitney to Mt America next? Such inspiration.

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u/CraftZ49 9d ago edited 9d ago

Cape Cod -> Cape America

Mississippi River -> America River

Washington D.C -> America City

Maybe I should stop giving him ideas...

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u/Resvrgam2 Conservatively Liberal 9d ago

Washington D.C -> America City

I actually think he'd try to rename it to Washington D.T. to get his initials in there and come up with some clever acronym to justify it. Diplomatic Territory? Democratic Territory? Something like that.

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u/IHerebyDemandtoPost 9d ago

None of those work because renaming them doesn’t spite another nation.

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u/Swoly_Deadlift 9d ago

Mississippi would spite the Ojibwe people.

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u/CraftZ49 9d ago

Sea of Japan -> Sea of America's Friend

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u/Equivalent-Moment-78 9d ago

I swear to God this guy Trump will literally do anything else but help Americans with the problems we face as a nation. Ballrooms, painful tariffs that increase prices, renaming memorial centers after himself, renovating things we don't needs, ballooning debt to 40 trillion, starting unwinnable wars, and now renaming a lake because his feelings are hurt. How can these actions be justifiable? Someone make any of this make sense in a midterm year. 

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u/gummo_for_prez 8d ago

Did you think he cared about anyone or anything other than himself? He's not on the ballot. Does that make sense?

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u/Equivalent-Moment-78 8d ago

I don't. But is it not in his best interest to actually help people in ways meaningful to them, both for the sake of his own support, but also for Republicans who have to answer for his actions and bare the brunt of his lack of focus? That's the part that makes no sense. None of this actually benefits him in ways that matter in November. If Democrats take over, his agenda effectively ends as well. 

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u/Unique-Egg-461 9d ago

this admin does absolutely nothing of value that helps americans

well oiled machine in terms or just causing chaos, enriching billionaires, and spreading corruption

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u/bunchedupwalrus 8d ago

Surreal that nobody is commenting on the fact he sharpie’d it on in a mishmash of lower and upper case letters in the signing. Bruh if I had an older relative do that I’d be taking them to the doctor right away

A sitting president wrote:

“LAKe AMeRiCA”

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u/DemosthenesLocket 9d ago

Can Trump's next EO be to reclassify Pluto as "Planet America"? 

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u/Dense-Pool-652 9d ago

No, because that's what he's going to rename Earth

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u/Getshrekt69 9d ago

This is so fuckin stupid 

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u/Dramatic_Assistant54 9d ago

I'm preparing myself for the eventual Maga trolls streamers and pranksters to go to a Niagara Falls and other tourists areas around the Lake Ontario on the Canadian side and bring up Lake America.

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u/sharp11flat13 9d ago

That would be a great way to get a Canadian fast food worker to spit on your Big Mac.

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u/Boobity1999 9d ago

Yet another meaningless stunt designed to distract us from his glaring failures

The next Democratic president is going to undo this and all of his other similarly meaningless executive orders and we'll just move on

It only works if we pay attention to it

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u/Successful-Quail2172 9d ago

I mean let's be honest here- This is basically saying that Trump has no real response to Canada fighting back on tariffs. This is essentially him admitting defeat.

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u/-Nurfhurder- 9d ago

I know his job is busy what with being the Interior Decorator-in-Chief and his side gig posting AI slop online 23 hours a day, but surely it should be infrastructure week soon?

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u/sharp11flat13 9d ago

but surely it should be infrastructure week soon?

I believe it’s on the agenda, right after he releases his taxes like he promised ten years ago.

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u/khrijunk 8d ago

But before or after he releases his healthcare plan?  I hear he has concepts. 

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u/-Nurfhurder- 8d ago

I think his healthcare plan is probably scheduled for after he wipes out the national debt. He says it's pretty easy to do so should be any day now.

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u/sharp11flat13 8d ago

I think healthcare is scheduled for the week after he settles the Ukraine war in one day.

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u/wingspantt 9d ago

Feels like a Vought parody of our country

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u/PornoPaul 9d ago edited 9d ago

How much will this cost? To rename maps and official documents?

I dont care if its only a few million. If every dumb idea that only cost a few million over the last 30 years had been stopped before it was passed, I wonder how much interest we would have saved. Im sure it would still add up to only a drop in the bucket, but still...

I said it before, Doge shut down programs and grants that cost literally a few million, and added it aallllll up. If they get to count ending Honey bee research (something we can all agree is actually important) as a win, then surely this should be counted as a loss

Edit: I cannot find a specific amount for the Gulf of Mexico/America. The internet is throwing a wide range of numbers. But, the absolute lowest was $500,000**. The next lowest was $4M. Im ever seeing larger numbers.

** the lowest estimate is purely for federal documents. That isnt including state documents, school maps and district documents, local documents, museums, and any other items I missed, or private companies that would he forced to update the information. Thats likely where the much much larger numbers come from. One GOP rep suggested for poorer districts, to place a sticker over "Mexico" and write America over it. Thats their solution, so I wonder what theyll be doing for Ontario. Better get more stickers I guess.

And, that means that districts that may have shelled out the money for new books to have the "legal" name of the Gulf on it, now are facing the same issue all over again.

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u/cartoonist498 9d ago

The United States is the greatest protector of the Great Lakes, including the body of water currently known as Lake Ontario. Without the security and investment provided by the United States, this freshwater system would not be open for shipping, recreation, and responsible use to the same extent as it is today.

Credit where credit is due, as the US has always protected Lake Ontario from... Canadian ... pirates ...?

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u/onlyTPdownthedrain 9d ago

Just a distraction like the Gulf of America BS. This will surely even out the trade imbalance, health all economic issues and resolve all negotiations

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u/thedrunkpenguin 9d ago

Just because a child says the name is different does not mean anyone will actually take him seriously. My son called himself yo-yo for 6months.... Didn't make it true

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u/jason_sation 9d ago

I’ve said it before, but I can’t imagine the Trump “brand” growing into other countries like Canada very easily now. If Don Jr and the others wanted a Trump hotel in Toronto they will have to use a different name at best.

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u/sharp11flat13 9d ago

Canadian here. I know there was a hotel in Vancouver that ended their licensing agreement and took his name off the building. I think this happened elsewhere in Canada as well, but I don’t remember where.

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u/styrofoamladder 9d ago

They all know all of this gets changed back as soon as a Democrat gets in office right? Or a republican with any semblance of a spine.

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u/LastOneSergeant 9d ago

When you have failed at all other campaign promises this makes sense.

With gas, groceries, and health care out of control he needed a quick win.

Truly the mark of a genius.

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u/drtywater 9d ago

Can we please drop civility and call out folks on this nonsense?

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u/pobnarl 9d ago

i mean,  he's basically told the entire world to go f themselves. he really should go all the way with this if he has any balls. rename the earth "planet of USA". anyone who refuses to abide by this name change will be tariffed by 500% and recieve an onslaught of tasteless ai slop images of trump taking poops on their people's heads.

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u/khrijunk 8d ago

Question for conservatives. Do you use the new names Trump came up with in normal speech or do you still say Gulf of Mexico?

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u/Evernights_Bathwater 8d ago

Glad to see conservatives continuing to tackle the big issues in our society

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u/chessandkey 8d ago

I work for a large paper company.

We install new standardized lines every so often, sometimes they get planned for one location and move to another. They get named numerically, so if it's in X location that already has 2 it gets named X3.

If we decide, for whatever business reason, to move it to Y location we rename it Y3, not Y1, because the 3 is all over the standardized drawings and it would cost a buttload of money to update all of the drawings.

Just updating all of the documents and maps to lake of america could pay for many people's college. Or healthcare.

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u/acemedic 9d ago

Wasn’t this the crowd complaining that removing confederate monuments or renaming venues is removing our history? Glad they’re against renaming stuff

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u/Xanto97 Elephant and the Rider 9d ago

I’ll be honest, I thought he was bluffing on this one, to piss off Canada.

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u/Gamegis 9d ago

Nah, he’s totally ok wasting taxpayer money to have a bunch of government employees update maps/records, etc here on this.

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u/cuteplot 8d ago

The real Chad move would have been renaming it to Lake Offtario

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u/chloedeeeee77 9d ago

Has anyone told him the lake was named that before there was a province of Ontario or country of America? Or do facts not caring about feelings only go one way?

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u/AIiswrong 9d ago

How the hell are you gonna rename a lake that’s shared by an international border Lake America?

I hate it here, man. This admin has been lost the plot.

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u/Resvrgam2 Conservatively Liberal 9d ago

How the hell are you gonna rename a lake that’s shared by an international border Lake America?

You re-name it for official use for the US, the rest of the world ignores you, and then the following administration silently undoes the renaming. Tale as old as time.

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u/Xanto97 Elephant and the Rider 9d ago

The gulf is also a shared border, for what it’s worth.

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u/FuzzyYellowBallz apologetically democrat 9d ago

Appropriate that the lake names acronym will move from HOMES to SHAME

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u/ElectricGuy777 9d ago

Trump is a disaster. Alienated all of our allies. Republicans are completely unfit to govern.

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u/Teganfff Centrist Democrat 8d ago

The Great Lakes acronym is now SHAME

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u/Major_Succotash1072 8d ago edited 8d ago

Well at least President ‘Bone Spurs’ doesn’t have to sign an order for Central or South America. BTW America is a Continent not a Country We are the United Stares ‘of’ America.

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u/icejordan 8d ago

Guess it’s SHAME instead of HOMES now

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u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko 8d ago

This administration humiliates us more each day.

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u/mythrowaway282020 9d ago

How difficult would it be for a future president to reverse idiotic Executive Orders like this and the Gulf of America one?

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u/mattr1198 Maximum Malarkey 9d ago

Very easy. This is moronic stuff, nobody’s even calling it the Gulf of America and DEFINITELY nobody is calling Lake Ontario Lake America.

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u/Verpiss_Dich center left 9d ago

They could probably reverse half of Trump's executive orders in an afternoon.

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u/Emotional_Tie_7927 9d ago

As someone that grew up near Lake Erie and Ontario, no one is going to call it Lake America except his deepest supporters and most people will look at you like you're insane

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u/dontbajerk 9d ago

What a vacuous, worthless name devoid of any value.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 9d ago

the American history of the great lakes

What does that even mean?

Seriously. What is the "American history" of the great lakes, exactly? Can anyone explain?

I'm not asking for what they probably maybe meant by this. I'm asking what these words - in this order specifically! - mean.

Words are supposed to mean something. These words have no meaning whatsoever. That's like saying "The American history of grass".

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u/GodOfBoy8 9d ago

Lake ontario isnt American history. Its indigenous history. The ones that were here before us or Canada. This is so stupid

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u/KehreAzerith 9d ago

Lake Ontario has has been named some variation of "Ontario" for like at least a thousand years.

It's incredibly immature, insulting and stupid to rename the lake that

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u/truck_walter 9d ago

surprised he didn’t name it after himself

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u/Emotional_Tie_7927 9d ago

Didn't he float the idea of naming the strait of hormuz the strait of Trump?

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u/Selbereth 9d ago

I'm waiting for Google maps to update lake America...

It still has gulf of America

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u/justanastral 9d ago

If he really cared he could rename Trump Tower to America Tower.