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Emile

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Sat Feb 8, 2025, 06:37 AM Feb 2025

Trolling Trump, Pritzker jokingly renames Lake Michigan, annexes Green Bay [View all]

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Tongue firmly in cheek, Gov. JB Pritzker trolled President Donald Trump on Friday, declaring Lake Michigan would be renamed "Lake Illinois," and jokingly annexing Green Bay from Wisconsin.

"I am here today to make an important announcement. The world's finest geographers, experts who study the Earth's natural environment, have concluded a decades-long council, and determined that a Great Lake deserves to be named after a great state," Pritzker said in a minute-long video posted to his campaign social media accounts. "So today, I'm issuing a proclamation declaring that hereinafter, Lake Michigan shall be known as Lake Illinois."

Read more at: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-joke-lake-michigan-lake-illinois-annex-green-bay/

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