The chief executive of a Michigan bank has lost her job after facing backlash for a social media photo of her family in sweatshirts that read “Lake America,” referencing Donald Trump’s relabeling of Lake Ontario.
Jane Smith from Family First Credit Union recently went viral after sharing the photo of her and three relatives wearing navy blue crewnecks with the words “Lake America” scrawled in white. The picture was snapped as her family left on September 11 for a 10-day trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia, but Smith says the sweatshirts were edited onto their bodies using AI.
“We weren’t trying to make a political statement,” Smith told Michigan outlet WJRT. “However, we were kind of poking fun at the fact that one of the Great Lakes’ names were getting changed.”
Family First Credit Union announced Wednesday that Smith was no longer with the company and that Jason Acosta, the chief operations officer, would serve as interim CEO.
I can’t tell you how much I wanted to shake people and say “Oh you hate that France, the one that went bankrupt, had a revolution, and killed tens of thousands of people by giving you all the money you would ever need just so that you could succeed in separating from the UK? That’s who you are angry about?”
Just gunna let you borrow our navy to make sure you become independent, don’t worry about it
At least in my experience the role the French played in the founding of the US is extremely understated to the point it’s essentially a footnote and hand waved away as unimportant, the founding it taught in a way that makes it seem inevitable so the French being involved is made to seem irrelevant