On February 7, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker humorously announced that he would rename Lake Michigan to Lake Illinois, satirizing President Donald Trump's declaration of the Gulf of Mexico as the 'Gulf of America.' Pritzker claimed that geographers had deemed it fit for a great lake to reflect a great state. He also suggested that Illinois would annex Green Bay as a tongue-in-cheek response to Trump's interest in Greenland. His comments followed recent controversies over immigration policies linked to his state and broader national security issues.
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.
I’m issuing a proclamation declaring that hereinafter, Lake Michigan shall be known as Lake Illinois. The proclamation has been forwarded to Google.
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