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.
What an idiot. Imagine wearing crap to purposefully piss people off when traveling.
Specifically traveling to a foreign country which our government has been hostile to. Just all around fucking stupid.
Specifically traveling to the county that name change was intended to antagonize.
I have exactly zero political apparel in my wardrobe.
Because why?
If band shirts don’t count I totally agree.
She didn’t. She used ai to make it looks like she did.
Wow what a colourful combo of assholery and cowardice. Brava! 👏🏻👏🏻
No. She didn’t. That’s what we call a lie, just like everything else MAGA says. And why the hell would she be getting death threats in Canada if she wasn’t wearing those?
No where in the article does it say she received death threats in Canada.