Jesse Marsch Slams Trump's Lake Ontario Rename as 'This Kind of C---'

Jesse Marsch, Canada men’s national team coach, said this week: “Here we are now, the big talk in America is Lake Ontario, Lake America, this kind of c---,” per www.si.com.

The remark targets President Trump’s executive order from August renaming Lake Ontario, according to www.si.com. Marsch made the comment ahead of Canada preparing to face the USMNT in Minnesota, per the same outlet.

The exact date and venue of the USMNT-Canada match are not specified in the source.

Marsch, an American coaching Canada, said he is “honored and really proud” to hold the role, per www.si.com. His shot at the rename lands days before the cross-border clash, sharpening the stakes for a rivalry already set to heat up.

AMERICAN PROPAGANDA CLAIM

A day before the lake comment, Marsch went further, per www.si.com. He claimed: “We, as Americans, have been inundated with propaganda since we were young. We’re the No. 1 country in the world, we deserve everything, we dominate everything, No. 1 in every aspect of life.”

That upbringing, he said, leaves Americans to “feel like we deserve to be treated differently because we’re Americans” when things go a certain way, and “we don’t feel like we’re in control of it.” Marsch used the example of the Folarin Balogun red card to illustrate the point, though the specific details of that incident are not provided in the source.

He then broadened the critique. “That is one of the things that infuriates the rest of the world about Americans,” Marsch told www.si.com. “And Americans don’t know that if they don’t ever leave the country.”

The remarks land with Marsch in a rare position: an American coaching Canada against the U.S. team. He has insisted there is “definitely no grudge” toward the USMNT, per the same outlet.