A minute-and-five-second video posted to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s official X account Friday afternoon was enough to mock President Donald Trump’s order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and desire to buy Greenland.
The Illinois governor also joked about annexing Green Bay.
The governor, eyes fixed on the camera, stern expression, solemn tone, declared that after Trump mentioned purchasing Greenland, “Illinois will now be annexing Green Bay to protect itself against enemies, foreign and domestic.” The Green Bay Packers logo then appears at the bottom of the video.
An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois. pic.twitter.com/irh7UtwEOe
— JB Pritzker (@JBPritzker) February 7, 2025
The tongue-in-cheek announcement places the Illinois governor among the latest public figures and organizations to join the Internet bandwagon of renaming various geographies.
Oh, and Green Bay, Illinois, will no longer sit on Lake Michigan. According to the governor’s earlier message in the video, Lake Michigan will be renamed Lake Illinois. “A Great Lake deserves to be named after a great state,” according to him.
Elon Musk tweeted, “Nothing is more dangerous than getting between JB Pritzker and the buffet table!” Pritzker responded with X. Elon Musk posted from his personal account on the X platform, which he owns. X was formerly known as Twitter.
Pritzker responded with an image of himself purchasing a hot dog from the Wieners Circle. “I salute @The WienerCircle, not Nazis.”, he wrote.
