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Trump wants to call the Straits of Hormuz ā€˜Trump Straits’ šŸ™„

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Fallingstar Wed 02-Sept-26 18:06:40

Yes, the POTUS who wants to call Lake Ontario ā€˜Lake America’ now wants to call the Straits of Hormuz ā€˜Trump Straits’.
He obviously hasn’t yet reached peak stupid.

SueDonim Thu 03-Sept-26 13:21:02

My son in the US says people there are getting inured to Trump’s shenanigans. Whereas at one time there’d have been howls of outrage, now people are just shrugging their shoulders with a ā€˜Well that’s Trump for you,’ attitude. And Trump finds that infuriating - he craves the attention those moves once created and to be ignored is anathema to him.

Ds says everything will revert to their old names once Trump has gone but we speculated that his next move might be to demand that all babies born from now on are to be called Donald or Donaldina.

Cressida Thu 03-Sept-26 13:22:24

I was looking on You Tube for Trumpton videos and found these videos from 2017!

If Donald Trump was Mayor of Trumpton
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F288q-fL6H4

Apparently he has visited Camberwick Green
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqtIl3dIQMs

Plevey08 Thu 03-Sept-26 15:23:24

Someone should remind him that the shipping lanes are very narrow and his head wouldn't fit through it šŸ˜•

WelshPoppy Sat 05-Sept-26 13:47:11

In that case I'm going to officially call him the Bumbling Orange A*seh*le. Think it sums him up.

ShepherdC Sat 05-Sept-26 15:06:47

Not sure if it’s enough for him but Planet Earth is due to be replaced by Trump World

LonnBestemor Sat 05-Sept-26 17:30:35

Llamedos13

He can call our lake whatever he wants but we here in Ontario will always call it by its historic name of Lake Ontario.And as another poster said once he is gone it will go back to being known as that.Same as the Gulf of Mexico which he stupidly named the gulf of America.

The disrespect and contempt that Trump holds for us is a pale shield for the inadequacy that drives him. We know our history, we know the value and it is Lake Ontario and he can say the sky is green and pigs fly. Besides, to quote Shakespeare,
ā€œ That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;ā€œ
The sweetness is that it is a part of beautiful Ontario, a part of beautiful Canada.
The man is out of touch with reality and his enablers continue to feed the delusion. Can you imagine how horrible it would be to try to divorce him? The pettiness and vindictive actions to destroy instead of compromise. Well, that’s what Canada is going through right now.

Mauduit24 Sat 05-Sept-26 18:18:52

Fallingstar

Yes, the POTUS who wants to call Lake Ontario ā€˜Lake America’ now wants to call the Straits of Hormuz ā€˜Trump Straits’.
He obviously hasn’t yet reached peak stupid.

The rate he’s going it will be renamed dire straits

Wyllow3 Sat 05-Sept-26 18:31:07

Google Maps, I asked for Mexico, has as follows

Gulf of Mexico
(Gulf of America)

Thats OK with me, they can remove it in seconds.

I think Vance and others will stage a coup after the mid elections, or face impeachment if there is enough support and the balance of power in Senate and House or R turns. blue enough.

Vance - a grim prospect however. A tyrant with a brain.

Oldnproud Sat 05-Sept-26 18:40:03

Mauduit24

Fallingstar

Yes, the POTUS who wants to call Lake Ontario ā€˜Lake America’ now wants to call the Straits of Hormuz ā€˜Trump Straits’.
He obviously hasn’t yet reached peak stupid.

The rate he’s going it will be renamed dire straits

Well, I'm sure that if he changes the name to Trump Strait, it won't take long for people to add the word 'jacket' too.

pably15 Sat 05-Sept-26 18:50:31

And the next full moon will be on 26th September, so it will be called The Trump Moon,,,,he'll probably be howling at it.

ordinarygirl Sat 05-Sept-26 21:09:24

I'm afraid he can't get over living in South Canada so he needs to rename everything.

M0nica Sat 05-Sept-26 22:50:43

Let Trump call anything he likes anything he likes. Nobody else will take any notice of him. They will still call Lake Ontario, Lake Ontario. Those using the names he gives places in his presence will be sniggering behind their hands.

At midnight on the day he leaves the Oval office, or departs this life, everything will revert to all the usual names and the brief change will be forgotten within a year, or if remembered be remembered with a snigger.

Wyllow3 Sat 05-Sept-26 22:59:45

ordinarygirl

I'm afraid he can't get over living in South Canada so he needs to rename everything.

Nice one ā˜ŗļø.
Go Canada.

Just think of the possibilities - all citizens should speak English and QuƩbƩcois.......

LauraNorderr Sat 05-Sept-26 23:47:49

A little light relief in a crazy world

Wyllow3 Sat 05-Sept-26 23:58:17

More, more!

imaround Sun 06-Sept-26 00:59:48

If you want a good read about the Senate.

www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/08/30/republican-party-midterms-trump-01055934

imaround Sun 06-Sept-26 01:05:48

M0nica

Let Trump call anything he likes anything he likes. Nobody else will take any notice of him. They will still call Lake Ontario, Lake Ontario. Those using the names he gives places in his presence will be sniggering behind their hands.

At midnight on the day he leaves the Oval office, or departs this life, everything will revert to all the usual names and the brief change will be forgotten within a year, or if remembered be remembered with a snigger.

I will remember for the rest of my life, because I have to pay for his destruction and the reconstruction. Right now it would cost $116k per citizen or $360k per taxpayer to pay off our national debt and he acts like he has a blank check.

I hope when if they charge the entire family with treason, they seize all assets. He's got a few billion laying around that can pay his fair share of the debt.

Fairislecable Sun 06-Sept-26 05:52:43

Reported

Maremia Sun 06-Sept-26 07:03:23

Unless the Trumps find a way to get their fortunes out of the country, when the coup comes, they could lose everything.
Sounds fair.

M0nica Sun 06-Sept-26 08:41:09

imaround I my last post I was writing about Trump's re-naming fruit=loopery, and nothing else.

On a wider basis the damage Trump and his family and associates are doing to the US beyond description. It is going to take generations for the US to regain its place in the world and for its people to pay the price of electing him into power.

Fartooold Sun 06-Sept-26 10:51:57

My two daughters (Downs) call the toilet ā€œthe trump bowlā€ Nothing to do with me 🤬! They do current affairs at day services!

Basgetti Sun 06-Sept-26 11:47:22

Grandma70s

Next he will want to call the USA Trumpton.

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Basgetti Sun 06-Sept-26 11:49:10

Fairislecable

Reported

Why?

StoneofDestiny Sun 06-Sept-26 12:23:01

This fools vanity knows no bounds - the money wasted on renaming maps, gold leafing the White House, building a ballroom, resurfacing the reflective pool again and again while declaring war on a country because Israel wanted him to...........is but the tip of the iceberg of his corruption and mania.

imaround Sun 06-Sept-26 13:10:36

Monica

Even that isn't free. Just an estimate, of course.