President Donald Trump appears to be borrowing ideas from online critics as his escalating feud with Canada takes a bizarre turn.
A Threads user mocked Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” in a comical AI-generated video.
The video features Canada geese sporting Trump’s signature blond hair.
The clip opens with a “Lake America” sign before the Trump-inspired geese, dubbed the “Donald Ducks,” swim into view.
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Hours later, Trump posted his own darker and more aggressive version of the joke on Truth Social.
Trump’s AI-generated video shows Canada geese sporting his blond combover and human arms while carrying assault rifles.
The armed birds march in formation to the “Hawaii Five-O” theme song and pass waving American flags. They eventually reach the water, labeled “Lake America,” and fire their weapons into the air as fireworks explode overhead.
Trump’s decision to adopt the online gag and turn the geese into gun-toting soldiers raised questions about how the president spends his time while a damaging trade war unfolds between two longtime allies.
The surreal clip appeared just days after Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” in his latest swipe at Canada.
A few hours after posting the armed geese, Trump shared another insulting AI-generated clip.
That video shows Trump knocking over a “Welcome to Lake Ontario” sign and replacing it with one reading “Welcome to Lake America.” He then begins dancing to the Village People’s “YMCA.”
Social media users slammed the president’s fixation on the childish videos, calling him “mentally deficient” and describing his behavior toward Canada as “tragic.”
“It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic. A mentally deficient octogenarian with narcissistic tendencies and a black, cold heart has nothing better to do than make toddler TikToks about renaming everything in sight. MINE. MINE. MINE. Asswipe,” one angry Threads user wrote.
Others offered shorter assessments.
“So nuts!” one person declared.“That is not fair to the Geese!!” another joked alongside a laughing emoji. “What a joke,” a third user wrote.
Trump issued an executive order on Thursday, proclaiming that Lake Ontario would be renamed Lake America.
The order came as Trump continued raging against Canada after the United States’ northern neighbor abandoned trade negotiations on Aug. 21.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called the American proposal “a bad deal” for his country and accused Washington of launching “an attack” on Canada.
Carney vowed that his government would not back down and promised “dollar-for-dollar” retaliatory tariffs against American imports.
Canadian officials had negotiated in good faith, Carney said, but the United States “asked too much and offered too little,” CBS News reported.
“The new U.S. tariffs are designed to hurt us and divide us. They’re a miscalculation,” Carney said.
Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on roughly $20 billion in Canadian goods the following day. The affected products include building materials, liquor, certain clothing and hockey sticks.
Canada responded by announcing new taxes on American goods beginning Sept. 8.
After the negotiations collapsed, Trump accused the longtime American ally of “ripping off the United States” for years.
In a Truth Social post, Trump accused Canada of imposing “ridiculously high tariffs on our Farmers and farm products.”
He also claimed the tariffs had “created a 60 billion-dollar deficit” between the two countries.
Trump then threatened even broader tariffs on Canada’s automotive industry beginning in January. The move could disrupt an industry deeply intertwined with American automakers.
As the economic consequences mount on both sides of the border, Trump’s response has included renaming a shared landmark and transforming an online joke into a fantasy about heavily armed birds.
