- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order directing the interior secretary to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” as Canada trade war persists.
Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however.
The move is reminiscent of his move last year to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”
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I worry this might be more than just him throwing a tantrum.
When the water wars start, they’ll start going, Canada is stealing water from LAKE AMERICA, OUR LAKE, OUR WATER!
setting the stage for a future war
You worry too much. Trump isn’t capable of planning. Just sit back, crack a beer, and have a laugh at his impotent rage.
So if the US can just randomly rename stuff that doesn’t belong to them, Canada can too. I want to see them rename the entire United States to “Trump is a Pedophile”. That’ll look great on Google maps!
This is what I came here to say or updoot if already said. Pleeeeeease make it happen. I would absolutely love if the rest of the world just started renaming shit in and around the US.
The US has a long history of changing the names of things because “fuck you”, Mt McKinley is actually Denali for instance.
I’d also like to unilaterally rename Ontario, California (ie: Ontario, CA) for creating unnecessary confusion.
Maybe they’ll choose to rename it themselves? Like, maybe Manitoba, CA? That’s got a nice ring to it!
Make a note on which maps companies comply in the US and boycott them.
That’s my knee-jerk reaction too, but on further reflection I’m not sure.
Sure, Google making sure it’s Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico in Google Maps is a nice thought, but that would be a strong political stand. Simply passing through the “official” names isn’t political, and I can’t judge too harshly companies not making specific political stands.
Ultimately, we have to all know that the names of these bodies of water will revert to their real names as soon as 'ol Donny kicks the bucket, right?
We have no assurances of that, and Google and Apple have no legal obligation to do this.
We have no assurances of anything in this life, but if I’m a betting man I put money on these stupid names being reverted when/if an adult is in the White House again.
And unless you work for Google/Apple/Microsoft in the GIS departments, you really have no idea if they do or don’t have legal obligation to pass through GNIS data.
This is like trying to make “fetch” happen. No one is going to call it that.
I haven’t met a single person who is even willing to acknowledge the name change of the SkyDome. There’s no way anyone pays any sort of attention to him trying to rename a lake.
They renamed the SkyDome?
It’s technically the Rogers Center now.
Reposting because i said it yesterday:
It would make me proud to be a canadian if the person that takes him out is one of ours. Wipe out the whole lot of them.
Chances are the honour will befall an American McDonald’s grill cook.
Oh no! Anyways……
How about them Epstein files?
Canada should rename it to Epstein Files Lake
Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however.
Trump cannot force anyone outside of the USA to respect his childish renaming bullshit.
He can’t even force Americans to play his stupid game, though I’m sure a bunch if them will happily play along.
We should rename the entire US “South Canada” or “Lesser Canada”.
Oh I like Lesser Canada
In response, the City of Toronto can propose renaming the Green Lane Landfill to the Donald J. Trump Memorial Landfill, or Donald Dump for short.
Canada - 🥱. We and everyone else in the world still call it Lake Ontario. 🖕
🍁True North Strong and Free 🍁
Im ok calling the american half 'Lake Epstein" but the canadian half is Lake Ontario.
Reasonable.
BREAKING NEWS: Province of Quebec renames Mar-a-Lago to Merde-a-Lago
Pedo-a-Loto
Lake Epstein, it even has islands.
That would be a great jab at his ego. light him on fire lol
No Lake Michigan is Lake Epstein. Don’t need to rename Canada’s great lakes and Lake Michigan is all in their borders. Also that is the one the FBI complaint alleges Trump witnessed the newborn of a 13 yr old Epstein victim murdered and dumped. If people want to get under his deathly orange skin run with that one.
I like the AP news article that points out Trump doesn’t have the power or authority to do this and it is an entirely meaningless change except to cause US schools to update books four times.
He can call it what he will, but Canadians still call the Rogers Centre the SkyDome over 20 years later.
Realest fucking thing in this thread honestly
They could have just called it the Rogers Skydome, and nobody would have cared. I’m more mad about that than I am with the orange pedo having another tantrum with Lake Ontario.
It’s all just an attempted distraction from the Republicans’ ruinous economic and social policy. And hoping we forget about the Epstein files. Release the full Epstein files, with only victims images and PIA redacted.
But Rogers was just being senselessly stupid. They weren’t trying to cover up being pedophiles, afaik, so why did they do it?
