Badlands Media Special Coverage: 8/27/26 - Trump Renames Lake Ontario "Lake America"
Trump kicks off with an 81st stock market record and a shoutout to a South Carolina Senate win before getting to the real headline: signing an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, following the same playbook as the Gulf of Mexico rename, with a hint that an ocean might be next. The Q&A that follows is a genuine grab bag, a blunt breakdown of trade grievances with Canada, tariffs on Canadian cars, a Putin and NATO question, a mail in ballot ruling in North Carolina, missing Americans in Nepal after a disaster, and a detailed Iran and Strait of Hormuz update covering blockades…
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