Trump Threatens to Rename Lake Ontario as Spat With Canada Escalates

https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/trump-threatens-to-rename-lake-ontario-as-spat-with-canada-escalates-64a8b1b0

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19 Comments

blitzen@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 18d

In response, and in honor of him, they should rename Lake Inferior

frisbird@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 18d (1 reply)

Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Eerie are indigenous names, not American nor Canadian. Ontario is a county in NYS as much as it a province in Canada. They all borrow the name from the people that were here before the genocidaires arrived

someguy3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 18d

TIL.

shittydwarf@piefed.ca · 19 pts · 18d (1 reply)

Let's let him do it if he can point to lake Ontario on a map

assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 18d

Knowing him he'll rename Lake Michigan by accident and then use black sharpie on live TV to change the lake's shores until he's "right"

Stern@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 18d

did he do that on twitter while posting from a plane over the gulf of mexico

aarch0x40@piefed.social · 11 pts · 18d (2 replies)

This man can't have an original idea, can he? It was either going to be "Lake America" or "Lake Trump". Same reason his foreign relations policies are but a single word.

SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 18d (1 reply)

I'm waiting for the "Straight of America".

GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 18d

Could you imagine if we dropped sea mines in the lakes? The midwest would just completely shut down.

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 18d

He really needs a distraction, eh? What's coming down the pike...wait, don't tell me.

imvii@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 18d

What a weird little twerp.

Kanda@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 18d (1 reply)

Let me guess... Lake of America?

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 18d

Lake Contrario

Lake Inferior.

floofloof@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 18d (1 reply)

Well I'm sure that will make Canada come around and consent to your terms for trade. This man is a master of psychology and the art of the deal.

Trump's lucky Canada is too classy to rename the Atlantic Ocean the USA Can Go Fuck Itself Ocean.

dhork@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18d

Lake Take Off, Hoser!

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18d

The sound of 73% of a continent that can't even.

CheetahHybrid@pawb.social · 2 pts · 18d

You mean like the Gulf of Mexico?

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 18d (1 reply)

I might have to rename middle North America to Shittlerland in response.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d

I wish I could remember the name of the part of America that the main character travels through in Rapture of the Nerds, but I often reflect on that future version of America when I think of where these conservative asshats are taking us...