President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” his latest escalation as he engages in a tense trade war with Canada.

“‘Lake of America’ was something I’ve been thinking about for a long time,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “We have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean. So, maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both.”

Surrounded by large maps of the Great Lakes, Trump said the name change was “effective immediately,” and that his staff had “filed all the necessary papers, documents, everything else.” A White House aide claimed the lake “has most of its volume in the United States” and that the “deepest parts” are in US territory.

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[–] 215 points 2 months ago (24 children)

The dumbest fucking timeline

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  • [–] 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

    Often described as ignorant, he changed over 300 Wadiyan words to "Aladeen," including the words "positive" and "negative," causing mass confusion.

    Doctor: Do you want the Aladeen news or the Aladeen news?

    Patient: The Aladeen news?

    Doctor: You are HIV-Aladeen

    https://youtu.be/NYJ2w82WifU?

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  • [–] 63 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Hey, remove that is= from the URL, it's leaking your Google ID.

    Also, change this setting so it stops leaking your ID whenever you share a link.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    i've been manually removing them, but for some reason I don't seem to get the option like in the screenshot :/ urggg

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    It's best to still manually remove them so you don't leak tracking info. Google still sticks the tracking ID at the end, they just don't show your name to the world if you have it disabled.

    Also good to turn off the share ID setting just in case you forget.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    That is effing amazing.

    Who is this guy?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Be happy it's not Trump Lake. He's put his name on everything he can in this country. Just like a good dictator.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I love how he got minorly blocked from literally chiseling his name into the Kennedy Center, so now he's talking about demoing the whole thing. True abuser mentality - if I can't have it, nobody can have it.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I only just realized he renamed an airport after himself. Like, what the fuck did you do to deserve that?

    He truly is envious of the authoritarians leaders in other countries.

    I know people joke, but I truly hope he lives lot enough to see his legacy dismantled.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    He lives close to it. That's all. My wife wants to take a cruise. I told her I will drive 1000 miles before I fly into Trump Airport.

    Fuck Trump. Fuck Florida. Fuck Florida voters. I'll be honest sometimes I root for global warming to drown that useless fucking swamp under the waves.

    /pardon my fucking French

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Just tell yourself that at the same time this was happening, the smartest people working for the Canadian government were planning how to best sanction all the red and swing states to deliver the most hurt.

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  • [–] 128 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    You all laugh, but think for a moment about the poor cattle rancher currently sitting on the toilet with his lettuce diarrhea, worried about the pending foreclosure of all he has and when the ivermectin is finally going to kick in for little Billy Jr's case of measles.

    But then upon his porcelain throne he sees his dear leader with the courage and genius to redraw the name of the lake he didn't remember existed from its communist foreign name to a name he knows and can remember, because it's the name of where he lives and also two of his daughters.

    And finally, for the first time since Obama's shadow government made him wear a mask in 2020 for the hoax pandemic that doctors claimed killed his elderly parents but everyone knew was just a flu and also engineered by Fauci for maximum damage — he knows.

    He knows it's going to be okay.

    That when Billy Jr beats this made-up measles thing and little America One and America Too and the whole family loses the ranch, that they can go to the Lake that is now their heritage by the only name they need to learn it.

    And then he'll float, staring up into the heavens, finally at peace secure in the knowledge that at long last the greatest President since Jesus is cradling his heart and interests in his diminutive bruised hands, exhausted from all the renaming of water.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Was explaining the propaganda of that Great to be an American song to my son. He never heard it so pulled up the music video. I had never seen it just heard the song. But the video was just that. The man singing how great America is even has he is losing everything and becoming homeless. Pretty fuck up.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Every time that song comes up I like to point out that they guy who wrote it, Lee Greenwood, is a complete hack that has never done anything else noteworthy and has been living off the royalties ever since. He even re-wrote the lyrics, badly, to make a Canadian version to try and squeeze more cash out of that cow of a song.

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  • [–] 76 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Just fucking die already god damnit.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    he can call it whatever he wants. The other 8 billion of us will still call it Lake Ontario.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

    It isn't even binding for Americans. He still doesn't have the power to do that. It's binding for his admin and some public institutions only. And he can bully some into obedience.

    I'm sure google maps will be among the first to kiss his ass again. (or suck dick, whichever you prefer. verbally, I mean) Without any prodding.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

    Then how come when I zoom out on Google maps I can see the gulf of America?

    Does it still show as gulf of Mexico when you're outside the US?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Then how come when I zoom out on Google maps I can see the gulf of America?

    Like I said, sucking Trump's dick.

    Does it still show as gulf of Mexico when you’re outside the US?

    I don't use google maps, but Openstreetmap: yes, and only that.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    I really hope so but I just checked Apple and Google Maps and they both say “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” and I’m not even in the states… these stupid tech giants have no backbone

    OpenStreetMap remains unchanged 😎

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Not completely unchanged. Someone briefly changed the name before other editors restored it and moved Lake America to the official_name:en-US tag. That's been OSM's way of not quite placating people insisting on the name change.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Who's the dev on this one? Ive never heard this recommendation before in the degoogle subs. Is it the "OsmAnd"?

    Also, google maps in Canada still shows Lake Ontario and if it changes I'll be floored.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    It’s not an app, it’s the largest crowdsourced mapping database. If you never heard of it, that’s sad…

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  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    “‘Lake of America’ was something I’ve been thinking about for a long time,"

    Yeah sure you were, pedo

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  • [–] 40 points 2 months ago

    Worlds stupidest man and notorious con man changes name of lake, while still managing to escape charges of child trafficking.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Dear leader says food and fuel is cheap! We love him!

    Dear leader says it's gulf of amercia! We love him!

    Dear leaders trade war isn't hurting farmers! We love him!

    Dear leader says it is Lake of America now! We love him!

    Dear leader says he isn't a pedophile! We love him!

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    This is bait. Where are the Epstein Files? Why are we still in a failed elective war with Iran? Why are we having to use buy now, pay later for groceries? Renaming a lake is a distraction.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago

    The Epstein Files will not be released. Too many Democrats, for one.

    Also, the problem is not Dump, but citizens like the ones here, except for some like you, who allow themselves to be manipulated and baited in all his smoke screens.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago

    "Making the Great Lakes Even Greater"

    Man, "Lake America Great Again" is right there. Fucking amateurs

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago*

    Trump has wide latitude over how the US government refers to geographic landmarks...

    This is how it worked for the "Gulf of America," too. The president can't force map publishers to use his names. He can only force the career public servants in the federal government to use his names.

    Google Maps (to name one of many) changed "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" of their own accord. And that will be the case this time, too, if Google follows through.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It has no force of law. Too bad Google Maps is so sycophantic that they'll go along with it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Meh, they have their own weird measurement system that no one understands. Let them use their own names for places and things and furtger alienate from the reat of tge world because they follow a senile racist pedo

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    "Senile old pedophile tries to rename stuff but nobody cares"

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You can call it whatever you want you senile old shitstain, it's still Lake Ontario.

    Sincerely yours, Canada.

    (PS: I hope the White house fire system is up to code)

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    What does this asshole think executive orders are?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    MAGA should be declared a Domestic Terrorist Organization, and a serious, ongoing, active National Security Threat, and prohibited from existing.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Great, instead of HOMES we can remember the great lakes by SHAME

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago

    Over 77 million Americans voted for this. They looked at Donald god damned Trump and said, "yeah, that's my guy." TWICE! Albeit it was non-consecutively, but I don't know if that makes it better or worse.

    We live in a shit hole country, y'all. Shit-hole.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Jesus Christ. This guy has like 2 thoughts. Tariffs and renaming things.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    He's a classic narcissist. Born halfway between third and home, and thinks he hit a homerun because he's surrounded by yes-men who tell him what he wants to hear. And as someone else in this thread said, it's the typucal abuser mindset of "if I can't have it, nobody can".

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Fuck that orange sack of shit so hard.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Yeah that sounds like something a pedo rapist would do

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    He's such a child.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    What a deplorably designed country that one person can do all this wasteful stuff. Way more wasted by this party than the fraud they like to point out in some places, and no peep on where it's actually worse. It's one part of the low-level thinking that high-control groups enforce, to keep people from asking questions and finding the evidence. For example that all the other rich countries pay much less for healthcare with better outcomes, get better worker benefits and satisfaction and all that makes healthier people than the usa system. It shows that they don't want that for everyone, just them and theirs, the selfish tradition is strong!

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Note that the Canadian province is named after the lake; not vice versa.

    So, this isn’t even the snub he thinks it is.

    Yes, Trump is a complete moron, but this is particularly idiotic even by his extraordinarily idiotic standards.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Surely this will bring prices down

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    The United States has already failed. At this point it's just waiting for a foreign adversary to push it over.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Lake epstien

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Ah man I needed a laugh today 🍁

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