Cleveland City Council Declares Part of Lake Erie to Be "Gulf of Cleveland"
Council member Kris Harsh said the move satirizes President Donald Trump’s renaming push and directs city departments to use the new name on maps and documents.
- On Monday, the Cleveland City Council voted 13-1 to rename a section of Lake Erie the "Gulf of Cleveland," a satirical protest against President Donald Trump's recent geography-renaming orders.
- Trump's executive directives renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" and Lake Ontario as "Lake America," prompting the city's symbolic response to the administration's broader rebranding efforts.
- Spearheaded by Councilman Kris Harsh, the measure covers two miles of shoreline and demands that Apple and Google update their digital maps to reflect the new "Gulf of Cleveland" designation.
- Harsh described the move as a way to "pull back the curtain" on administrative absurdity, noting that Cleveland refuses to be "left behind" in the current deluge of government renamings.
- Other municipalities, including Weymouth, Massachusetts, and Long Beach, California, have launched similar satirical pushes, using humor to challenge the president's authority to unilaterally alter geographic names.
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City Council Renames Part of Lake Erie 'Gulf of Cleveland'
In a tongue-in-cheek move, Cleveland's city council has claimed a slice of the Great Lakes renaming action. A resolution to rename part of Lake Erie the "Gulf of Cleveland" passed in a 13-1 vote on Monday, NBC News reports. The sympolic resolution, which carriers no legal force, apps to a...
Ohio City Council Decides to Rename Lake Erie to ‘Gulf of Cleveland’
The Hill The Cleveland, Ohio, City Council on Monday voted to rename a portion of Lake Erie as the “Gulf of Cleveland,” taking a jab at President Trump’s executive order declaring that Lake Ontario be called the “Gulf of America.” The emergency resolution led by Councilmember Kris Harsh passed in a 13-1 vote and was intended to take effect immediately. The resolution is not legally binding. Harsh’s speech to attendees ahead of the vote referre…
Cleveland officials mock Trump with ‘extraordinary’ move: ‘Recognize our sovereignty’
The Cleveland City Council adopted a resolution Monday evening seemingly designed to mock President Donald Trump and his propensity for renaming things after either himself or the United States.“I feel emboldened to take the extraordinary step of renaming Lake Erie as the Gulf of Cleveland today,” said Cleveland City Council member Kris Harsh, the sponsor of a resolution, during his remarks at the body’s meeting Monday, NBC News reported.Passing…
Cleveland City Council declares part of Lake Erie to be "Gulf of Cleveland"
The city of Cleveland will now refer to its Lake Erie shoreline as the Gulf of Cleveland, according to a resolution that takes jabs at the Trump administration's efforts to rename other landmarks.
City Council Renamed Part of Lake Erie the Gulf of Cleveland. Kris Harsh Thinks People Missed the Point
Lake Ontario is now Lake America. The Gulf of Mexico is now the Gulf of America. And now a part of Lake Erie is the Gulf of Cleveland. Trump’s name change spree has ticked off many, including some on Cleveland City Council, who have responded to the president’s geography-changing orders by holding down the fort […]
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