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Trump's authority is over the American slaves, not anyone else.

What do you think he will do next as a distraction from being implicated as
a pedophile in the Epstein files, Iran failure, shitty economy, massive
debt and soaring, out of control inflation? What a depraved, suhuman
insect.

Maybe he'll punish Iran by raising taxes on foreign imports for Americans
to pay. Oh, he already does that. Sorry.


Trump Orders Americans to Call Lake Ontario Lake America
That’ll show Canada.

Trump on Thursday followed through on a threat to rename Lake Ontario to
“Lake America,” issuing an executive order to “Make the Great Lakes Even Greater” amid a collapsed trade deal with Canada, further escalating
tensions between the two former allies.

The lake in question has been known as Lake Ontario since the 1600s. Trump contends that it should be renamed because America spends more money on it than Canada does.

“The United States is the greatest protector of the Great Lakes, including
the body of water currently known as Lake Ontario,” Thursday’s executive
order reads. “The United States Coast Guard supplies 9 of the 11 ice
breaking vessels on the Great Lakes, securing commercial shipping lanes
free of charge. The United States has invested nearly $4 billion in protecting the Great Lakes freshwater ecosystem in the last decade, while Canada has invested far less in similar initiatives over the same period.”

My colleague Alex Nguyen covered Canada’s response to the escalating trade war—a large support package for Canadian workers and firms—on Tuesday:

While the plan aims more at support for businesses than direct funds
for individual Canadians, it is a meaningful step that far exceeds any the Trump administration has taken or tried to take, with the White House
largely ignoring the foreseeable harm of its tariffs on American workers
and consumers… Nearly every state has experienced blue-collar job losses as
a result of the tariff agenda, even as the policies deliver few apparent results in improving US manufacturing or lowering the trade deficit.

The “Lake America” decision is a return to a Trumpian theme: governance as branding exercise. That includes renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” the Defense Department as “Department of War,” the Kennedy Center
as “Trump-Kennedy Center,” and (unofficially) ICE as NICE.

Trump cannot force Canada or any other country to follow his preferred
naming conventions. It remains to be seen whether independent news,
weather, and mapping firms will fall into line.
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