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The Gulf of America stuff was overwhelmingly dumb, but the Lake America stuff is somehow even dumber.
Aside from the general idiocy of unilaterally renaming places shared other nations, the name "Ontario" derives from an Iroquois word for "great lake". It's literally as generic and neutral a name for a large lake as you can get. The Canadian province is named after the lake, not the other way around. And there are also places in the US named Ontario (in California and New York, among others).
@mattblaze I wonder what he will do when he finds out America is named after an Italian Navigator via a map drawn by a German cartographer. Neither of whom were of course true Americans.
@mattblaze The problem here is people really need to not take this seriously, just because a proclamation is made by emperor Trump it doesn't make it so. Ignore it and it will go away, give it credence and Big Baby will be validated by attention and do something even worse. I'm betting threatening to nuke Canada would be in there somewhere.
@byrnensorg One of the problems is that the US president has certain actual powers, and ignoring him doesn't work for things he actually has the power to do.
One of those powers is to direct federal agencies as to the official names of things. That doesn't force *the rest of us* to call things by his new names, but it does mean that federal agencies will call them that in official communications and on maps, etc.
His power isn't unlimited, but it's not nothing, either.
@mattblaze So what if federal agencies rename things, it's not written in stone, even if it is. A rose by any other name.... sticks and stones etc. Canadians will always call Lake Ontario, Lake Ontario, Feds be damned and even if he follows through on renaming the Atlantic, who the hell will recognise it?
@byrnensorg OK. But I expect the Coast Guard will call it Lake America when they issue marine warnings, and the USGS will call it Lake America on maps and navigation charts.
@mattblaze Seriously, the only way the Chump could make himself look even stupider than he already does is to be serious about renaming everything America.
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Which is super confusing for those of us living in Ontario.
@mattblaze besides that America is the name of the continent and USA the country, so lake of America is the name of any other lake in America too 🤔🤷🥳
@mattblaze We went from HOMES to SHAME.
@mattblaze Oh, no. Did something actually happen?
@20002ist Another executive order dropped today.
@mattblaze time to rename a river to River America! Or the Niagara Falls to America Falls!
A not very bright 5yo, with a crayon.
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