Under what authority does a US president have the right to rename a body of water shared with another country?

Factual Questions
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Who is “we”?

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A bit off topic but George R. Stewart’s Names On The Land is a great book full of stories behind place names in America.

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It would make more sense to rename it “Lake Obama-Superior”

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Small bit of pedantry with the thread title: the government, including the President, doesn’t have rights. In other words, the person who is the President has the exact same rights that the rest of us have. The office of chief executive has the authority to determine what the US government calls things.

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Hari_Seldon’s location is Montreal, so “we” probably means Canada.

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Lake Victoria was unilaterally renamed Lake Ida Amin Dada in the 1970s.

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I heard the idea was;

Change From: Lake Superior

To: Lake Obama Is Superior

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It was Lake Edward that had that, um, distinction - on the other side of Uganda.

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Indeed: it took years to find an acceptable compromise over FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia)>North Macedonia.

BTW, we don’t mind the French referring to La Manche and Les Îles Anglo-Normandes.

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Indeed: it took years to find an acceptable compromise over FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia)>North Macedonia.

BTW, we don’t mind the French referring to La Manche and Les Îles Anglo-Normandes.