{"id":329220,"date":"2026-08-25T13:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329220\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:32:17","slug":"trump-floats-renaming-lake-ontario-as-lake-america-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329220\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump floats renaming Lake Ontario as \u2018Lake America\u2019 \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">President Donald Trump<\/a> said Tuesday that he is considering changing the name of Lake Ontario to \u201cLake America\u201d as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/national-international\/trump-carney-canada-tariffs-threat-50-percent-auto-truck-metals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">trade war<\/a> between the United States and Canada intensifies.<\/p>\n<p>Such a change would be reminiscent of the Republican president\u2019s unilateral action last year by executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and Canada are locked in a trade dispute, with Canada expected Tuesday to announce retaliatory measures after the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/politics\/canadian-prime-minister-suspends-us-trade-talks-50-tariffs-in-motion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">enacted 50% tariffs<\/a> on $20 billion of Canadian goods over the weekend after talks between the countries broke down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don\u2019t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer,\u201d Trump said Tuesday on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario is Canada\u2019s most populous province and is home to the country\u2019s auto industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is considering changing the name of Lake Ontario to \u201cLake America\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,2083],"class_list":["post-329220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-tariffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}