Trump considering renaming Lake Ontario as relations with province sour
By: Aaron D'Andrea - Canada's Global News
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Trump considering renaming Lake Ontario as relations with province sour
President Donald Trump says the United States is giving "serious consideration" to renaming one of the Great Lakes as relations with Canada's most populated province sour.
Trump posted on Truth Social Tuesday morning that he's thinking of changing the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America."
"The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don't expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer," he wrote.
The change would be similar to the Republican president's executive order last year to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
The Great Lakes — Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior — are a chain of five freshwater lakes that hold roughly one-fifth of the world's surface fresh water. Lake Ontario, which the province is named after, shares a border with the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania.
Michigan is the only Great Lake that doesn't border Canada.
The United States and Canada are locked in a trade dispute after Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended trade talks last Friday, accusing the U.S. of trying to introduce last-minute demands that would limit Canada's ability to make trade deals with other countries and protect its culture and sovereignty.
The U.S. introduced a new round of 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports on Saturday, targeting goods worth $28 billion. Canada is expected to announce retaliatory measures Tuesday that will go into effect Sept. 8.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, whose province is home to the country's auto industry, said Monday that he backs Carney. He also took aim at Trump after the president posted about him on social media.
"I don't respond to a dictator like President Trump, a bully like President Trump. I'm not going to take any advice off a guy that's the king of bankruptcies," Ford said during a news conference, which also heard him say Trump could "kiss my ass."
"Let's be clear, I don't like the guy — simple."
Carney said Monday that Canada will go back to the negotiating table on a trade deal once the United States changes its attitude and stops treating Canada as a subsidiary.
— with files from Isaac Callan and The Associated Press
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I KNEW IT!!! I predicted it. I posted that he was going to try to rename it long ago, since he had "renamed" the Gulf of Mexico. I said back then he would try to rename it Lake New York since it has a long coastline.
The cynical take would be that this is just another diversionary tactic. But in reality, it’s just another example of how little the concept of leadership that this buffoon can muster.
Oops I just posted the same story ... deleting it now.
No problem, I've done that more than once.
Where's Teddy Kennedy when You need em
With all the issues we're facing (many of which caused by Trump himself), his biggest priority is on renaming things? How anyone can defend or support him is beyond me and beyond insane.
Trump is a fucking douchecanoe and whatever legacy he thinks he's creating will be mocked until it's lost in history.
But his sycophants are either so stupid or servile their response to his incessant need to rename everything is "Sounds reasonable"...
I guess anything might look reasonable when one is looking out at the world from Trumps dirty balloon knot.
Many will pay the price in November.
His descendants will regret that he's putting his name everywhere.
I don't think those names will last very long. If it's so simple Trump can do it, the next person can undo it.
I hope so. If I were an American I would want to shed any memory of such a disgrace.
I think that lake Titicaca must be renamed!
Lake Trumpicaca would sort of fit, but that's already been used for his pool at Mar-a-Lago. It's also what we'll be left with in America after Trump leaves office.
Doug Ford is just about the last Conservative in N.Am. to sport a set of brass congers.
I wish Ford would keep his mouth shut and leave the childishness to Trump People sympathinze with young children so Ford doesn't need to provoke it or expose himself.
Gotta wonder what goes on in that despicable brain of his. It is truly as though he enjoys making trouble for others (domestic or international).
Worse though, is the thought process of those who continue to support him.
ABORT, Not Support, people
They will pay for their stupidity.
Sounds reasonable. But it is not the united states that feels that way, only one guy in a few minions of his.
And that one guy is the most pressing problem we face today. Everyone should be doing their part to criticize Trump and his corrupt, incompetent administration and push to have their power mitigated by removing the GOPTRUMP as the majority party in Congress. Unfortunately, the Ds are the only choice, but that is far better than a Congress that rubber-stamps a corrupt, incompetent, irresponsible, immoral, vindictive, lying psychopath who continues to inflict damage on the USA.
IMO the last thing we need to do is legitimize the DSA as the future of the Democrat party. The Republicans are the lesser of two evils. Hopefully they get over Trump once he is gone. The dems are quickly moving toward insanity and need to be stopped now, not wait for three years,
That is insanity. It shows a failure to recognize the damage Trump has done and will continue to do to this nation, and an irrational exaggeration of the negatives of the Ds.
A D Congress will mitigate the damage by Trump. No more rubber stamping.
Right now the best thing for this nation is hobble Trump as much as is possible.
I truly pity decent Americans who have little choice but to be led by those who have so little integrity and personal principles.
IMO this applies not only to both parties individually, but to Congress as a whole...
I'm fully aware of that, as I'm sure are most Canadians. But the problem is the ones the Americn people chose to represent and speak for them.
And the worse problem is that —even now— too many Americans still support/defend this lunatic.
Even some righr here. I would have thought that if one were smart enough to contribute to a social news site they would have been smart enough to realize that Trump is a disaster.
At this point, Canada would rather become a China Canton than an American State. Well done Donald!
In that regard Canada should emulate China in diversifying its markets and sources it order to not be easily controlled by only one nation.
This is called trolling. It’s his specialty and we really need to stop being outraged by it and to just classify it as more juvenile behavior from the biggest moron on earth.
Agree, but I don't think some folks are able to do that. Getting outraged every time Trump trolls is an addiction to some.
It’s despicable behavior regardless. History will not be kind to this subhuman.
Depends on who is writing it.
So true.
Why does Trump remind me of the snake that ate its own tail?
No. That’s gaslighting. If he didn’t ever do the stupid crap he threatens, we could respond that way. But he actually follows through on his juvenile threats, so we have earned the right to be genuinely outraged.
“Lake America” is just another troll coming out of the floodgates with hopes of shifting attention away from his actual criminality. Even the dumbass in chief knows that the only voters who would give this nonsense a positive response are the cultist 30ish percent that are already in the bag for him. Everyone else is actually concerned about the things that matter in their life that have gone to shit because of him. The fact is that he is incapable of attracting a vote from anyone who hasn’t already voted for him, and he knows it - so his big focus will be denying people of the right to vote and/or attempting to nullify elections that don’t go his way.
Obviously the war with Iran not going well??
All a storm in a tea cup....err I mean Lake...
Nothing like another miserable diversion by the Trumpet...
If he DOES try to change the name of Lake Ontario, then I, as a Canadian who lived most of his life in Ontario, most of it next to Lake Ontario, will be an example of the extent of the anger that it would cause. President Sheinbaum was a disgraceful fearful pussy when Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico - Canadians will be different.
Welcome to Bribe-a-Lago!
I am unable to open that image. Please explain what it is.
I am sorry GG, but I will give you two more hours to explain to me what that image is, or I will have to delete it. From the RED BOX RULES above....
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It's a photo of Trumpets house in Florida..
It is just a picture of Mar-a-Lago
As shona and TiG said, it's a picture of Trump's property in Florida, formerly called Mar-a-Lago, that we are re-naming Bribe-a-Lago.
Okay, thanks, no problem.
Yours didn't open either, but it's okay - I saw shona's image.
Okay GG, no problem.
I usually can't open images copied and pasted directly vrom the web such as from google. They need to be copied from the web and pasted on your computer picture library, and and then copied from there and pasted here.
I have to moderate whatever is posted on one of my articles
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Arvo...if anyone can put a video up from Facebook re the trade war greatly appreciated..
It's under:
demonflyingfox
Absolutely brilliant who ever did it..has had one million views and no doubt will get heaps more..
I just heard a Canadian guy being interviewed on the street in Toronto who, when asked about Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, said "We're going to rename Lake Michigan to Lake Epstein".
PERFECT!!!
Trump just signed a so-called Executive Order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. Now he's talking about renaming the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial this week about Trump's anti-Canada tariff titled "Trump to Ford Motor: Drop Dead". His new tariff should help push Democratic victories in the Maine and Michigan Senate races.
There clearly is no line that Trump can cross that will cause the spineless, pathetic GOPTRUMP to take some fucking action. Trump continues to behave like some kind of emperor, and those who have the power to stop him are too cowardly to do so.
And let's hope that that cowardice will cost them in Novermber.
Let's hope so.