Sparky was excited to tell me that President Trump just changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.

Sorry to dampen Sparky’s enthusiasm, but that was a dumb idea.

I told Sparky it was startling when President Trump changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.  Nobody knew the president could do that, and there was a parallelism to it.  Mexico and America are both countries.  Renaming it Gulf of the Americas would have been magnanimous and more properly correct, but fine.

The Lake Ontario business doesn’t make any sense.  There is an Ontario, Ohio.  Should that be renamed to America, Ohio?

I’m all for tweaking the Canadians.  They can be a disappointment.  Just changing the names of places to ‘America’ isn’t clever or inspiring.  It’s a little tedious.

Sparky was disappointed with my reaction.

I may have confused Sparky.  He isn’t very good with names and labels.  He still isn’t clear where he’s supposed to go when I tell him to “Go to bed.”

It seems like President Trump may be just bored, because the Formula 1 race in D.C. just ended, and before that, there was the MMA fight.  The border is secure, a bunch of national parks and monuments are getting fixed up, the Strait of Hormuz is now a waiting game and people defrauding Medicare and other government programs are being prosecuted.  He doesn’t have much to do.