- cross-posted to:
- boycottus@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- boycottus@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.”
You must log in or register to comment.
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.
BREAKING NEWS: Province of Quebec renames Mar-a-Lago to Merde-a-Lago
Oh no, a rapist is calling to rename a lake in a country where 1/2 the population can barely read.
I am quite happy that Canada is diverting away from this dumpster fire of a country.
He seems to think Canadians will care what they choose to call that body of water.
Doubt he does much thinking
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.
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.
He can call it what he will, but Canadians still call the Rogers Centre the SkyDome over 20 years later.
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?
Realest fucking thing in this thread honestly
Canada should rename it to Epstein Files Lake
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.
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.
Lake Epstein, it even has islands.
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.
Please everyone, just ignore this shit. Better yet laugh at them and call them morons then ignore it.
We should rename the entire US “South Canada” or “Lesser Canada”.
Oh I like Lesser Canada
Oh no! Anyways……
How about them Epstein files?
