{"id":286805,"date":"2026-09-15T22:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286805\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:44:12","slug":"gulf-of-cleveland-city-council-takes-jab-at-trump-with-proposal-to-rename-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286805\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gulf of Cleveland\u2019: City Council Takes Jab at Trump With Proposal to Rename Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland City Council voted this week to rename parts of Lake Erie to the \u201cGulf of Cleveland,\u201d mocking President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order<\/a> last month renaming Lake Ontario as \u201cLake America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kris Harsh, a nonpartisan City Council member who spearheaded the resolution, described the move as a humorous attempt to poke fun at Trump, whom he said is a man who \u201cclearly isn\u2019t afraid to say what no one is thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel emboldened to take the extraordinary step of renaming Lake Erie as the Gulf of Cleveland, today,\u201d Harsh said<\/a> while holding a map of the lake with the new name written with a marker. \u201cWe didn\u2019t even need to pass a resolution. \u2026 This is all it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The council floor erupted into laughter throughout the meeting. Harsh later conceded Lake Erie was not even a gulf during his proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do expect Google and Apple to recognize our sovereignty and show it as the \u2018Gulf of Cleveland\u2019 on all maps,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Trump has sought to change the names of institutions, landmarks and places across the country during his second term, so much so that Democratic lawmakers in Congress<\/a> prepared counterlegislation to stop the president from renaming Lake Ontario. Trump\u2019s order came as U.S.- Canada trade negotiations fell apart,<\/a> escalating the conflict for states that border the northern country.<\/p>\n

The Cleveland lawmakers nodded at the titles of Trump\u2019s executive orders by labeling their symbolic attempt \u201cRenaming a portion of Lake Erie as the new \u2018Gulf of Cleveland\u2019 now and forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland City Council voted this week to rename parts of Lake Erie to the \u201cGulf of Cleveland,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-286805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}