# Let the "Lake Trump" jokes begin **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 25, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-lake-trump-jokes-begin/921514 "2020-09-25T16:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-lake-trump-jokes-begin/921514/1 "2020-09-25T16:07:02Z")
> **[Lake Trump? Disputed reservoir could be named after US president - France 24](https://www.france24.com/en/20200925-lake-trump-disputed-reservoir-could-be-named-after-us-president)** > > Lake Trump? Disputed reservoir could be named after US president Don’t take a boat out on Lake Trump-- it will sink for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-lake-trump-jokes-begin/921514/2 "2020-09-25T18:02:18Z")
I do think that it is somewhat appropriate that just like its namesake a lake that is causing controversy divisiveness and discord. Although I think that renaming Lake Karachay after him would be a better tribute. > **[Lake Karachay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Karachay)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Lake Karachay (Russian: Карача́й), sometimes spelled Karachai or Karachaj, was a small lake in the southern Ural mountains in central Russia. Starting in 1951, the Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility, located near the town of Ozyorsk (then called Chelyabinsk-40). Today the lake is completely infilled, acting as "a near-surface permanent and dry nu... ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-lake-trump-jokes-begin/921514/3 "2020-09-25T18:06:29Z")
You just know “Lake Trump” would somehow manage to catch on fire, like the Cuyahoga River used to do. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-lake-trump-jokes-begin/921514/4 "2020-09-25T18:07:50Z")
Orange gotta stay orange. ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-lake-trump-jokes-begin/921514/5 "2020-09-25T19:49:09Z")
### [Trump Lake - Wisconsin DNR](https://dnr.wi.gov/lakes/lakepages/LakeDetail.aspx?wbic=479300) _Trump Lake_ is a 162 acre _lake_ located in Forest County. It has a maximum depth of 20 feet. Visitors have access to the _lake_ from a public boat landing. Fish include Panfish, Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike and Walleye. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-lake-trump-jokes-begin/921514/6 "2020-09-25T23:03:21Z")
Huh, didn’t think to check and see if there already was a trump lake somewhere. LARGEMOUTH bass, that’s appropriate amirite? No crappie in that lake though? How about orange roughy? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-lake-trump-jokes-begin/921514/7 "2020-09-26T02:56:49Z")
> [@](#): > > . . . The lake is the crucial source of drinking water for more than a third of Kosovo’s 1.8 million population . . . The water will be ~~fluoridated~~ hydroxychloroquinated. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-lake-trump-jokes-begin/921514/8 "2020-09-26T23:38:47Z")
If they bury him somewhere with poor drainage, he’ll have a “Lake Trump” soon enough, but not one anybody would want to drink from.