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Trump signed an August 27 order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, escalating a weird little sovereignty cosplay with Canada and adding one more self-inflicted absurdity to an already overloaded presidency.
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Trump signed an August 27 order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, escalating a weird little sovereignty cosplay with Canada and adding one more self-inflicted absurdity to an already overloaded presidency.
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