THIS PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP

 The Federalist Papers   August 30, 2026

President Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 27 directing federal agencies to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” in U.S. government usage.

Canada does not have to recognize the change, and frankly, I am not a huge fan of it either. I think renaming landmarks to irritate the other side is mostly political theater when there are far bigger problems to solve.
But here is where the outrage from the Left starts to get a little hard to take seriously. For years, the political and cultural Left has enthusiastically participated in renaming, rebranding and reclassifying anything it decides no longer fits the approved narrative.

 
Columbus Day becomes Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Military bases get new names. Sports teams are pressured to abandon names used for generations. Corporate brands are scrubbed. Words that were perfectly ordinary yesterday are suddenly declared unacceptable today.

Then there is the language game. “Illegal alien” becomes “undocumented noncitizen.” “Mother” can become “gestational parent.” “Woman” becomes “birthing person” in certain institutional language.

 
People are told that the new terminology is not merely preferred, it is morally necessary, and anyone who objects is accused of being hateful or backward.

Now Trump does the same sort of symbolic renaming with a lake, and suddenly changing a familiar name is outrageous?

The cartoon is not really an argument that every example on the list is identical, because they are not. Some changes came from government, some from corporations, sports franchises or cultural pressure.

 
The point is the double standard. If renaming institutions and rewriting terminology is a legitimate way to reflect new values, then the people who cheered that process have a very weak argument when someone on the other side plays the same game.

I still think Lake Ontario should be Lake Ontario. But the people who spent years telling everyone that names, labels and definitions must evolve with politics probably should have expected someone else to eventually grab the eraser.

 I seem to remember also that when "Biden was president" He proposed changing the name of ANY place that had "SQUAW" in it's name,  I don't know if he ever did it but he said he was going to....And there were a lot of places called "Squaw something or other"