This
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has been circulating online as 'proof' that Trump was simply restoring the original name. Not only has Snopes found it to be a digitally altered version of an actual French map from 1688, the culprit who did the alteration seems not to have known that a French-speaking cartographer would have spelled it 'Lac Amerique'.
Boru
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has been circulating online as 'proof' that Trump was simply restoring the original name. Not only has Snopes found it to be a digitally altered version of an actual French map from 1688, the culprit who did the alteration seems not to have known that a French-speaking cartographer would have spelled it 'Lac Amerique'.
Boru
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