President Donald Trump’s push to slap America’s name on major bodies of water could soon expand to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, an idea that left The Jim Acosta Show dumbfounded.
Trump floated renaming one or both oceans Thursday while celebrating his decision to change Lake Ontario to “Lake America” amid escalating tensions with Canada.
“As you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico and we changed it, and now it’s very routinely the Gulf of America,” Trump said. “So, if you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake, now all we need is an ocean.”
“Maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific,” he added. “Maybe we’ll change them both.”
Writing Friday for The Jim Acosta Show’s morning newsletter, Tommy Christopher warned readers: “It gets dumber.”
Christopher described Trump as having gone “MAXIMUM toddler” and went on to call his White House an “idiot admin.”
Multiple media outlets highlighted Trump’s suggestion that the Atlantic or Pacific could be next, although no replacement names for the two oceans have been floated by the president.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker responded to Trump’s lake announcement with a renaming decision of his own.
“EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: Trump Tower is renamed to NATALIE TOWER!” Pritzker wrote, invoking Trump aide Natalie Harp.