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Trump's Lake Ontario rename sent into lake-consent therapy

Staff treat the Lake America order as harm the water has to process with Canada

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Wide hard late-morning light on a breakwater at a Great Lakes port as a worker cropped at the shoulders bolts a new shoreline marker reading "Lake America" to.

"...and the water has to consent before we change its name," a naming-justice facilitator said Friday. President Donald Trump had just ordered Lake Ontario renamed Lake America in a trade clash with Canada.

The water has to consent before we change its name.

Staff at a transboundary repair desk then booked co-regulation for both governments and the lake, after news of the order. They called the rename a boundary violation and asked the United States to name its need without colonizing the noun.

Negotiators sat for nineteen minutes of silence so the shoreline could discharge harm. The lake was excused early, on the grounds that it should not perform emotional labor for a map.