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S15 EP154: Hour 1 - Trump Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America, Plus Howard Lutnick’s Canada Deal Sabotage

Episode length: 36m

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Erick kicks off Open Line Friday on President Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America" and asks the obvious question: who exactly is switching their midterm vote over a lake? He then reports the real story behind the Canada trade war: Jamieson Greer negotiated a deal both sides liked before Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sabotaged it over French-language packaging, and warns it could cost Susan Collins in Maine and Mike Rogers in Michigan. Plus Trump's Arthur Schlesinger presidential rankings blunder, the data center backlash, and 200,000 Chinese accounts shut down on Twitter.

  • Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario, why no president should have that power, and the Iroquoian history of the name
  • Jamieson Greer's Canada deal, Howard Lutnick's last-minute sabotage, and the House and Senate races the trade war could sink
  • Inside the White House: worry about a lame duck president, a Congress with no reconciliation message, and life after the midterms
  • Trump's Truth Social presidential rankings, actually a 1940s Arthur Schlesinger Sr. list, with Woodrow Wilson "great" and Ulysses S. Grant a "failure"
  • Data centers, unions like Steamfitters Local 602 breaking with Democrats over jobs, Greg Abbott's new ad, and China's 200,000 fake Twitter accounts
  • Personal: Erick's daughter Evelyn turns 21, born the night Hurricane Katrina hit, and his AJC column on bringing back mental institutions
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Erick Erickson