c/politics · by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 2d

Trump Threatens to Rename Lake Ontario as He Spirals Over Canada Feud

https://newrepublic.com/post/214694/trump-threatens-rename-lake-ontario-canada-trade-war

Literally watching a toddler tantrum in a full grown, dementia-addled, man-child.

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 2d (4 replies)

Trump also denied reports that Canada pulled out of trade negotiations over the weekend over crazy last-minute demands from Trump administration officials such as changing Quebec’s French-language protections.

I could 100% believe trump or one of his idiots tried to make that demand.

But if he didn't, and Ford just made that shit up, I 100% support that tactic.

Every other country should just do the same shit to trump at the same time.

I want to hear Aussies saying they can't deal with trump because he demanded the legally define any blade over 3 inches as a sword and not a knife.

I want England to say he wants them to ban beans on toast.

Germany to say he wants to force all beer to be non alcoholic.

Italians saying he wants to ban gluten.

Flood the zone with so much shit he's constantly on the defensive and doesn't have the energy to start actual wars or even trade wars.

Keep the baby distracted till midterms and maybe we can get rid of him thru congress. Or at least get him in check somewhat.

hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 2d (3 replies)

Trump also denied reports

I also love how we all basically take this as confirmation that this did in fact happen.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d

That's the entire point...

stoly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

He denies anything that he doesn’t think makes him look better

hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2d

Past behavior is often a reliable indicator of future behavior.

revelrous@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 2d (4 replies)

Oh good. I thought my blood pressure was getting a bit low.

Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d (1 reply)

This is the stuff worth ignoring. He can call it Lake Freedom Fries, Lake America, Lake Trump, or whatever. That doesn’t mean Canada or New York will change the signage of the area. It’ll be another dumb Google Maps change that will vanish after this guy finally leaves office.

YouTalkinToMe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

I just renamed the local landfill here 'Trump's turd'. He should be happy now.

balsoft@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

No need to worry, it won't even be reflected on any map worth using

(just noticed that it doesn't even get mentioned as an alternative name in the Wikipedia summary lol)

doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 1d

It's Gulf of America on Google maps for US users and all of the merch you can buy along the Gulf has changed. Let's see where it stands in 15 years, a lot of people along the Gulf are embracing it.

imvii@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 2d

picard-facepalm.jpg

ulkesh@piefed.social · 14 pts · 2d

It’s humorous that this moron thinks he has any authority to rename any geographical feature. Literally no one calls it Gulf of America except the sycophantic spineless supporters and businesses like Google and Apple.

A complete fucktard.

blastosist@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 2d

Totally normal behavior.

Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 2d

Hmm let’s rename Lake Michigan to Lake Epstein files.

username_1@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 2d (4 replies)

Why would anyone care how Americans call something? On American maps it would be Lake Trumpario. And?

PointlessLifePersonified@slrpnk.net · 15 pts · 2d

What Google Maps shows for the Gulf of Mexico still pisses me off, and I have no skin in the game since I have no ties to anything Hispanic in nature. It's just wrong.

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d

For you as a .de user, probably not much right now outside of you getting to make fun of the incompetence of Americans with a dementia addled man who has a book of Hitlers speeches on his nightstand in charge of a waning super power.

Longer term, there are going to be impacts to you as he destabilizes the global markets, screws with the energy market, this time with Canada, which might be good for you guys, and continues to deteriorate trade and military alliances with America's allies.

And at any rate, it's always good to make fun of fascists, their ego's can't stand being mocked.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Sea of Diarrhea.

YouTalkinToMe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

Cha-Cha-Cha

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2d

Holy shit, this administration is such a fucking embarrassment.

Ariselas@piefed.ca · 12 pts · 2d

I say Canada renames the greatest of the great lakes, the Superior lake, in honor of 45/47, to Lake Pedo

criscodisco@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d (3 replies)

Yeah? Like the Gulf of Mexico?

That one didn’t stick either.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Google maps changed it. It's still there.

Damn it.

criscodisco@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Yeah, but no one calls it that.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

Unfortunately, the bootlicks and the cult members do.

If we ever get a Democratic president and they don't reverse stuff like this immediately, the Democrats might just lose the population forever.

Sure, some might argue it is "just" symbolic to reverse it. But conservatives doing stuff like what donnie does is also symbolic, so reversing it should be NBD and something done immediately.

If anyone Enlightened Centrist (TM) or Murc's Law Media simp asks "why are you doing this?" or "what gives you the right to do this?" - tell them that "the American people elected this President ____ to do the will of the people, blah blah" - in other words, give them the exact same gaslighting bullshit the Republicans do, and never, ever apologize for it, ever.

HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 8 pts · 2d (7 replies)

I guess he needs to distract from the bad trade deal negotiations with Canada to distract from the illegal war going poorly with Iran.

RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d (3 replies)

Which is just a distraction from releasing the epstein files.

NABDad@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d (1 reply)

I used to believe the whole distraction theory, but now I think he's just that much of an idiot. Suggesting that there's a strategy just gives him far too much credit.

Every time in his life that he fucked up before now he's been able to cheat his way out of it. All he knows is fucking up and cheating. If he had ever faced a consequence, he might have at least the intelligence of a slug, but he was never forced to develop his mind in any way other than cheating.

korazail@eviltoast.org · 3 pts · 1d

The only caveat I have here is that he's a puppet. The likelihood that there are intelligences behind him is too great. Trump doesn't have a strategy, but others do.

Flatter him a few times and ask him to say something stupid and it'll get said. He is the distraction, but doesn't know it.

My holdout for hope is that this much of a stooge can only come around every few years. There can't be another idiot waiting in the wings, right? Right?

I don't think those in his circle will dance on the same strings that trump will, and will break the illusion if asked to, but I'm just an optimist.

theneverfox@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1d

At this point I think it's all a distraction from his health

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

So it would be really, really funny if the we were actually importing Canadian beef.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1d

I heard the US beef is actually cats and dogs.

THEY ARE EATING THE CATS.

GardenGeek@europe.pub · 3 pts · 1d

Which he began to distract from him raping children on Epstein island.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d

When is Plump ever going to do anything for the American people? I kept hearing about something about winning?

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2d (1 reply)

FreshParsnip threatens to rename the Whitehouse the Circus Tent 🎪

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 2 pts · 2d

And they could do it, too!

santa@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2d (3 replies)

Speaking as a Michigander… ( now in California) So stupid. It’s also a shared border with Canada. It is international waters. So we would have a different name for it than Canada. It is already in America, too. North America!

You also learn in school the initialism of HOMES, to remember all of the lakes for a quiz or life or whatever. Not that that matters as much as his pettiness as a “leader.”

He is an absolute embarrassment.

Is he also going to rename Ontario, California?!

Kirp123@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

The Gulf of Mexico was also international waters and that didn't stop him.

santa@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2d

Good point.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 1d

Not international waters, there is a border than runs across Erie, Ontario, Huron and Superior.

anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d

I am convinced he started all this when he returned to office because he was pissed at the former Canadian head for being so handsome his wife and daughter swooned over him.

NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d (2 replies)

Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d (1 reply)

I would post the clip of Christopher Walken in Seven Psychopaths, but that would imply Walken is Trump, and that is an insult I could not completely atone for.

NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

But that also implies I killed him ultimately... Sooooo