{"id":331366,"date":"2026-08-27T22:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331366\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T22:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:02:40","slug":"trump-orders-lake-ontario-renamed-lake-america-effective-immediately-in-jab-to-nasty-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331366\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump orders Lake Ontario renamed Lake America ‘effective immediately’ — in jab to ‘nasty’ Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump signed documents Thursday ordering that Lake Ontario be renamed \u201cLake America\u201d<\/a> \u2014 as he and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney escalate their tariffs-driven trade war.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately, to Lake America,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe filed all the necessary papers, documents, everything else. We notified all of the various people that we have to notify. So we\u2019ve done everything that you have to do, and this is official, effective immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America after signing it at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, August 27, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n

The White House released a map of the new Great Lakes names. The White House \/ X<\/p>\n

Trump said that \u201cthe Canadian officials have treated us very badly. They\u2019re nasty people. They charge our farmers 400% tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump previously renamed the Gulf of Mexico the \u201cGulf of America\u201d last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean. So maybe we\u2019ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and\/or the Pacific,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Carney rejected the rebrand, saying that \u201cthe name is more than 400 years old\u201d and \u201ccomes from the Wendat word Ontari\u2019io, which, appropriately, means \u2018the lake is beautiful, the lake is big.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

A map naming Lake Ontario as \u201cLake America\u201d is displayed as U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office on Thursday, August 27, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms,\u201d he tweeted<\/a>. \u201cCanadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario \u2013 then, now and always.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prime minister broke off trade talks with the US on Friday and claimed that \u201cAmerica is trying to break us so that they can own us,\u201d but that so long as he was in charge it would \u201cnever, ever happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump imposed a new 50% tariff<\/a> \u00a0Saturday on $20 billion of Canadian goods, including beer, cheese, wine, hockey sticks, cement and electronics.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America. REUTERS<\/p>\n

He also threatened to hike tariffs to 50% on all vehicles, automotive parts and steel coming from Canada.<\/p>\n

Carney vowed to fight back<\/a> with retaliatory tariffs beginning on Sept. 8.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s population of 41 million is about 12% the size of the US and its economy is much smaller, meaning it would disproportionately feel the effect of a trade war.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately, to Lake America,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Falon Wriede \/ NY Post Design<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump speaks alongside as he signs an executive order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

More than 70% of Canada\u2019s exports go to the US and about half of its imports come through its southern border.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The US is much less reliant on Canada, with about 14% of US exports going to Canada. Canadian goods amount to about 11.5% of overall American imports.<\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance visited Maine on Monday and hammered Carney.<\/p>\n

Sailboats are seen on Lake Ontario on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, in Olcott, NY. AP Photo\/Adrian Kraus<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada is a country that has underinvested in its military that quite literally would get invaded by a foreign country were it not for the umbrella of protection provided by the United States,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada allows itself to be used as a backdoor for Chinese goods. They treat Chinese goods more fairly than they do [those] that come from the people of Maine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trade fight could have a disproportionate impact on US border states.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe produce a lot in Maine \u2014 our blueberries, our potatoes, our lobster, our lumber \u2014 that is processed across the border,\u201d Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told<\/a> News Center Maine. \u201cIf it comes back with a huge tariff on it, perhaps as much as 50 percent, that increases the cost of eating, building homes and merch[andising] our best-known products.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump signed documents Thursday ordering that Lake Ontario be renamed \u201cLake America\u201d \u2014 as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10585,153,4290,9,11,10,87,58],"class_list":["post-331366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-great-lakes","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331366","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=331366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}