{"id":754175,"date":"2026-08-30T03:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754175\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T03:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:24:10","slug":"canada-installs-large-lake-ontario-sign-in-latest-jab-at-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754175\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada installs large Lake Ontario sign in latest jab at US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump said the decree was effective immediately as he signed the order to rename it Lake America. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While he has broad discretion over how the US recognises landmarks, other countries are not required to follow. Canadian officials have dismissed Trump&#8217;s move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Saturday, Trump also posted several AI-generated videos on social media, with one showing him kicking over a Lake Ontario sign and replacing it with one that says: &#8220;Welcome to Lake America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another video depicted a flock of Canada geese sporting the US president&#8217;s hair and holding rifles as they patrolled the shoreline of a newly named Lake America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ford said Trump&#8217;s renaming of the lake was because he &#8220;didn&#8217;t like Ontario and Canada standing up for ourselves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Standing in front of the newly unveiled Lake Ontario sign, Ford added: &#8220;Just in case President Trump or anyone else forgets, we&#8217;ve set up this sign to remind them, it&#8217;s Lake Ontario, now and forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It echoes Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney&#8217;s previous response to the row, insisting &#8220;things must be called by their name, and this lake is called Lake Ontario &#8211; today and forever&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump said the decree was effective immediately as he signed the order to rename it Lake America. While&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-754175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}