Ignore Iran, the Epstein files, and your wallet \u2013 not to mention Trump\u2019s plummeting approval ratings<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t mention the war! Or the economy, for that matter. Or the Epstein files. Or Natalie Harp. Or \u201caffordability\u201d, which, as Donald Trump recently said<\/a> at a rally, is a word that was \u201cnever used\u201d by the media before he took office. Best not to talk about anything that affects ordinary people or embarrasses the president, really. Instead, let\u2019s all rejoice in Trump\u2019s latest triumph: renaming Lake Ontario, which is shared by Canada and the US, as Lake America<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to America-fy the lake\u2019s name on US maps and documents, which is an excellent use of time and resources. I suppose we can at least be thankful that the president, who is trying to slap his own name on everything from airports<\/a> to the Kennedy Center<\/a>, didn\u2019t decree that the body of water be called Lake Trump.<\/p>\n Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ignore Iran, the Epstein files, and your wallet \u2013 not to mention Trump\u2019s plummeting approval ratings Don\u2019t mention the war! Or the economy, for that matter. Or the Epstein files. Or Natalie Harp. Or \u201caffordability\u201d, which, as Donald Trump recently said at a rally, is a word that was \u201cnever used\u201d by the media before … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}