Trolling Trump, Illinois governor declares Lake Michigan is now Lake Illinois
Trolling Trump, Illinois governor declares Lake Michigan is now Lake Illinois
By Michelle Butterfield Global News
Posted February 12, 2025 3:41 pm
4 min read
In a parody video shared to social media, Gov. JB Pritzker, a longtime critic of Trump, issued a proclamation that he would be renaming Lake Michigan after the "great state" of Illinois.
Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is the latest to poke fun at U.S. President Donald Trump over his recent moves to rename the Gulf of Mexico, putting out his own statement announcing the renaming of one of the Great Lakes.
In a parody video shared to social media, Pritzker, a longtime critic of Trump, issued a proclamation that he would be renaming Lake Michigan after the “great state” of Illinois.
In the video, Pritzker steps up to a podium as cameras click off-screen, resembling a press conference.
“The world’s finest geographers, experts who study the Earth’s natural environment, have concluded a decades-long council and determined that a Great Lake deserves to be named after a great state,” Pritzker says. “So today, I’m issuing a proclamation declaring that hereinafter, Lake Michigan shall be known as Lake Illinois.”
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