Illinois Gov. Pritzker pokes fun at Trump's Gulf of America by renaming Lake Michigan, annexing Green Bay
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GREEN BAY — A minute-and-five-second video posted to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's official X account Friday afternoon was all it took to poke fun at President Donald Trump's order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and desire to purchase Greenland.
The Illinois governor joked about annexing Green Bay as well.
The governor, eyes set on the camera, stern-faced, tone solemn, declared that after Trump talked about purchasing Greenland, "Illinois will now be annexing Green Bay to protect itself against enemies, foreign and domestic." A Green Bay Packers logo then appears in the bottom of the video.
The tongue-in-cheek announcement makes the Illinois governor one of the latest public figures and organizations to jump on the Internet bandwagon of renaming various geographies.
Oh, and Green Bay, Illinois will no longer sit along Lake Michigan anymore. Per the governor's message earlier in the video, Lake Michigan will henceforth be named Lake Illinois. "A Great Lake deserves to be named after a great state," he said.
Pritzker used X to respond to Elon Musk, who tweeted, 'Nothing is more dangerous than getting between JB Pritzker and the buffet table!' Elon Musk wrote from his personal account on the X platform that he owns. X is formerly known as Twitter.
Pritzker responded with an image of himself purchasing a hot dog from the Wieners Circle. 'I salute @The WienerCircle, not Nazis.', he wrote.
Jesse Lin is a reporter covering the community of Green Bay and its surroundings, as well as politics in northeastern Wisconsin. Contact him at 920-834-4250 or jlin@gannett.com.
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