Timothy Birdnow

Lake America is the lamest name Trump could have chosen.

I get the Gulf of America, as America is not just the U.S. But Lake America breaks with the tradition of naming the Great Lakes after native American tribes.

He should have named it Lake Iroquois since they lived SOUTH of the lake in question.

Of course Lake Superior broke with that tradition, but it was too much trouble to say Gitche Gumee (as Longfellow called it.)

Other useful names would be Lake Niagara or Lake Rochester.

BTW I just e-mailed the White House about all this and within about two seconds got pinged with several text messages from the White House (you had to provide a lot of information to weed out the crazies, including your cell number). No direct response and I doubt I'll get one but it will be interesting to see if Trump seeks to rename the Canadian River any other name.

I included the Aviary address so maybe the White House will start reading this blog. I have said before Rush Limbaugh used to read it (if only occasionally) and I suspect a number of others did. We used to be linked up at Commentary Magazine, for instance, so people from there read the Aviary (no doubt thanks to Jack Kemp, who provided a great conservative Jewish perspective). So who knows? Maybe some underline at the White House will take a gander and perhaps we'll get a little attention for once. It gets lonely blogging into a roaring silence sometimes.

Posted by: Mike at August 29, 2026 10:19 PM (8k65J)

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at August 30, 2026 09:47 AM (oflqW)

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