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Laurie Baron (photo supplied by author)<\/p>\nBy Laurie Baron in San Diego<\/p>\n
Laurie Baron (photo supplied by author)<\/p>\n
Donald Trump is at it again.\u00a0 He just can\u2019t resist slapping his or some faux patriotic name on bodies of water and buildings.\u00a0 First, it was the Gulf of Mexico whose name he changed to the Gulf of America even though Mexico\u2019s coastline with the Gulf is twice as big as that of the United States\u2019.\u00a0 He\u2019s contemplating erecting a wall around Mexico\u2019s Gulf beaches so that no Gulf of America water illegally washes onto Mexico\u2019s shoreline.<\/p>\n
Then he decided that he\u2019s such a connoisseur of the fine arts that the Kennedy Center should be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center.\u00a0 After Federal courts rejected this change, he appointed his lackies to the Center\u2019s Board of Trustees to circumvent their rulings.\u00a0 He\u2019ll soon designate Kid Rock as the Center\u2019s singer-in-residence.<\/p>\n
Now he\u2019s so angry at Canada for rejecting the last-minute conditions the United States demanded in the trade negotiations between the two countries that he\u2019s renamed Lake Ontario Lake America.\u00a0 This is just the beginning of Trump\u2019s new names for the Great Lakes which he refers to as the Greatest Lakes. Lake Superior is slated to become Lake Superior White Race.\u00a0 He\u2019ll end the feminist implications of Lake Huron by dubbing it Lake His Sons.\u00a0 He\u2019ll politicize Lake Michigan\u2019s name by rebranding it Lake Criminality since it\u2019s corrupted by having Chicago and Milwaukee on its shores.\u00a0 To intimidate Democrats, he\u2019ll refer to Lake Erie as Lake Fear Me.<\/p>\n
But why stop at lakes?\u00a0 Given Mar-a-Lago\u2019s proximity to the Atlantic, it will soon be the MAGAtlantic.\u00a0\u00a0 Trump finds it intolerable that the word pacific means peaceable.\u00a0 It\u2019s obvious that the Pacific Ocean must be stripped of that nomenclature and called the Warlike Ocean.<\/p>\n
Finally, his plan to place the Strait of Hormuz under American jurisdiction will entail renaming it in honor of Pentagon Pete.\u00a0 From now on, it will be known as the Strait of Male Hormones.<\/p>\n
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Laurie Baron, retired from San Diego State University, is a professor emeritus of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Laurie Baron in San Diego Laurie Baron (photo supplied by author) Donald Trump is at it again.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-447651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}