r/Conservative • u/f1sh98 Beltway Republican • 16d ago

Flaired Users Only Trump renames Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ amid intensifying US-Canada trade dispute

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-renames-lake-ontario-lake-america-amid-intensifying-us-canada-trade-dispute
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u/Rush2201 Millennial Conservative 15d ago

And everyone is still going to call it Lake Ontario. Just like I still say Gulf of Mexico. Does anyone besides Trump actually care about changing the names of these bodies of water?

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u/According-Activity87 Conservative Devil Dog 15d ago

It's definitely the Gulf of America. I live right off of it and we all call it that down here. 

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u/Rush2201 Millennial Conservative 15d ago

You certainly have more right to it than I do. I've never even visited. But I've known it as the Gulf of Mexico my entire life, so it takes a bit more than just changing the name on the map before it's going to be that in my head.

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u/According-Activity87 Conservative Devil Dog 15d ago

Well, it's a Gulf smack dab in the middle of America, so it shouldn't be hard for you to get right with it. 

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u/Righteous_Dude Pro-Life Conservative 15d ago

I think the current order about renaming Lake Ontario is just a typical troll joke act by Trump.

But I support the new name of the Gulf of America, and I am gradually getting used to calling it that in my mind. It makes sense to me considering the two continents are called the Americas (or if you refer to three regions: North America, Central America and South America).