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Apple executives' decision to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" on its Maps app is setting off a firestorm inside the tech giant, with employees furious that leadership caved to President Donald Trump out of fear of his wrath, according to a new report.Employees are furious that the company is rolling over because of higher-ups' fear of the wrath of President Donald Trump who demanded the name change in an executive order, media watchdog Status reported Wednesday.At the same time the public is rejecting the “deeply stupid” name change, which Google has also agreed to follow, Apple was late to the game and employees are not happy.The controversy intensified after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum appeared on Fox Business on Monday, telling host Maria Bartiromo, "I know that the president reached out to Apple directly, so I'm sure that we may be seeing that change coming up soon to Lake America."According to Oliver Darcy at Status, "While Apple had likely always planned to update its map to reflect the executive order—it had, after all, also swapped Gulf of Mexico for 'Gulf of America'—Status has learned that executives at the company were irked by Burgum’s comments. By disclosing that Trump had personally phoned Cupertino, the White House had framed any decision Apple made as one in which it 'was capitulating to the president’s demands.'"Inside the company, Status reported it would be difficult to find a single employee who genuinely supports the change."There is not a soul who is for it," one person familiar with the matter told Darcy, adding that "everyone considers it f-----g nuts." Still, Apple's leadership and most of its rank-and-file are described as "resigned" to these kinds of concessions under Trump's second term, understanding "that Trump will f--- with the company if the company doesn't do what he wants," the person said. The dispute over Lake Ontario's name has become one of the more visible flashpoints in Trump's escalating trade dispute with Canada, whose officials have mocked the renaming effort as absurd. Like Google's version, Apple's change applies "only to Maps for users located in the United States." Canadian users and much of the rest of the world still see the lake listed under its original name.

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A member of President Donald Trump's first administration delivered Wednesday a stark warning to his former boss over what he describes as the White House's "convoluted" plan to deal with a sinister partner.Elliott Abrams, Trump's former special representative to Venezuela, in a Washington Post editorial shredded the president's deal to claim 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil as an "unconstitutional" gambit — and warned he was relying on a dangerous partner to push it through."Because major U.S. oil companies have been unwilling to pony up large amounts of cash to invest in Venezuela, Trump has allied the government with the most shadowy and repellent Venezuelan businessman he could find," wrote Abrams. "When I served in the first Trump administration as special representative for Venezuela, we knew exactly what [Alejandro] Betancourt stood for and kept him far away from the U.S. government."Before delving into his many problems with Betancourt, Abrams details many problems he has with Trump's oil plan; namely that the agreement is unconstitutional under Venezuelan law that states the deposits belong to the people, who haven't agreed to it, and U.S. law likely doesn't allow the Pentagon to enter into the oil trade. But Betancourt is "worse" than these major legal problems, Abrams writes. Betancourt, who denies wrongdoing, is under a Swiss arrest warrant for alleged money laundering involving Venezuela’s state oil company and made a fortune under the "corrupt" Hugo Chávez, writes Abrams.That reportedly hasn't stopped senior U.S. officials from lobbying to resolve the Switzerland case or inviting Betancourt to Washington for meetings with the administration. The resultant deal, argues Abrams, is one that will do nothing to ease the pain American drivers feel at the gas pump."Hundreds of billions of dollars in investments will be announced — some by grifters looking for special advantages, some by oil companies looking for favor with Trump and some by the president himself," wrote Abrams. "The tragedy is that the United States is now the partner to an unelected despot...this oil deal will prove to be the great sellout — of Venezuela’s natural resources and its people’s right to self-government."