Trump Posts AI Video of Armed 'Donald Ducks'
Trump Posts AI Video of Armed 'Donald Ducks'
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President Donald Trump on Saturday posted an apparently AI-generated video showing an army of armed, blond-coiffed Canada geese — which he called "Donald Ducks" — patrolling the shore of "Lake America," two days after he signed an executive order directing federal agencies to stop calling it Lake Ontario.
The 34-second clip, set to the theme from "Hawaii Five-O," shows the geese with human arms and the president's signature hair carrying rifles and firing into the air as fireworks burst over a skyline that resembles Toronto, according to The Independent.
The post lands in the middle of a tariff war between Washington and Ottawa that both sides have escalated this month.
Timeline
The U.S. imposed 50 percent tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian exports after last-minute talks between the two governments broke down, The Independent reported. The Trump administration has accused Canada of discriminating against American businesses.
Trump said the U.S. was giving "serious consideration" to rebranding Lake Ontario, and posted a TikTok video of himself marking up a map of the lake with a Sharpie. "We're gonna make a little change; we're gonna call it something different than Lake Ontario," the 80-year-old president said in that clip.
Trump singled out Ontario Premier Doug Ford in a Truth Social post, calling him a blustering "flunky" who needs to "fall in line."
Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to refer to Lake Ontario as "Lake America" in all official documents and records, echoing his rebranding of the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" last year.
The "Donald Ducks" video went up on Truth Social. Mediaite reported Trump also posted a video of himself kicking over a "Lake Ontario" sign, planting a "Lake America" sign and dancing to "YMCA."
Reactions
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney answered the executive order on X on Thursday: "The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari'io, which, appropriately, means 'the lake is beautiful, the lake is big.' The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America."
"We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms," Carney added. "Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario — then, now and always."
Carney, who denies Trump's accusation that Canada discriminates against U.S. businesses, has likened the American tariffs to an act of war and retaliated with levies of up to 50 percent on a range of U.S. goods.
Ford, at a news conference, called Trump a "dictator," a "bully" and the "king of bankruptcies," and told him to "kiss my a**."
Raw Story reported that the video baffled critics on both sides of the border and described it as "AI-slop."
What's Next
The renaming order binds only the federal government. As The Independent noted, the president can direct how federal agencies refer to geographic features but cannot compel foreign governments, U.S. states or private companies to follow.
The open questions are whether the 50 percent tariffs on both sides push the two governments back to the table or further apart, and how long Trump keeps the Lake America campaign running.
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Relations between the two countries have deteriorated since Trump returned to office, including over his repeated suggestion that Canada should become the "51st state."
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