No. of Recommendations: 10
The docile "news" ran a piece the other day, talking about how some of the lakes have been known by different names, to different people, over the preceding centuries. Translation: no, this is not another fit of Trump's personal vanity and pettiness. This is routine in the course of history.
Then again, "there is no historical precedence for a country unilaterally renaming a major international, shared body of water purely as a retaliatory tactic during a modern trade dispute (the Only Recent Precedent is from the Same Administration - Gulf of Mexico)"
