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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.

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.

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

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

More, more!

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

A little light relief in a crazy world

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.......

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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˜•

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

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.

JenniRen Thu 03-Sept-26 13:11:35

madeleine45
Sandcastle building competitions are not a new thing, they have been going on for over a century, worldwide. Weymouth is particularly famous for its sand sculpting and it really is fascinating to see.

Llamedos13 Thu 03-Sept-26 12:20:01

So true.

AGAA4 Thu 03-Sept-26 11:35:09

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.

Lake Ontario will stay as that for most of the world. Even in the US some people will not change the name.

Ashcombe Thu 03-Sept-26 08:34:35

Whatever next!! šŸ™„

Margs Thu 03-Sept-26 07:59:39

Fallingstar

Would love to rename Trump but my post would be promptly removed.

You definitely wouldn't be alone........

Bibedybop Thu 03-Sept-26 07:53:44

Best to ignore all this renaming BS , it’s all a distraction from the failure of Trumps war with Iran ( and everything else of course, tariffs, Epstein etc).
Another part of this madness is that the media go along with it and spend time discussing/debating it. I am sure there are many intelligent people in the media so they know as well as WE do that it is all distraction and the ramblings of an old fool who behaves like a child.

nanna8 Thu 03-Sept-26 03:30:39

He’ll be trying to annex the UK next . Probably call it Mother America ! Scotland will be Trumpland, of course, because he has Scottish blood. How’s about Canada fights back and calls the US the United States of Canada ?

Llamedos13 Thu 03-Sept-26 03:20:09

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.