{"id":827827,"date":"2026-08-27T18:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827827\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:28:13","slug":"trump-signs-order-renaming-lake-ontario-as-lake-america-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827827\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario<\/a> to be known as \u201cLake America\u201d in the United States as he exacerbates his trade war with Canada.<\/p>\n

The Republican president signed an executive order that updated the lake\u2019s name for the U.S. geographic naming service. Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however.<\/p>\n

Trump has been floating the idea of the name change in recent days as the U.S. announced it was imposing 50% tariffs<\/a> on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods over the weekend after talks between the countries broke down. Trump has been needling America\u2019s northern neighbor since he returned to the White House last year, suggesting the ally with whom the U.S. once had warm relations should instead be absorbed as the 51st state<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Canada responded to Trump\u2019s import taxes this week by imposing retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of American goods, including steel, dairy products, appliances and farm equipment<\/p>\n

Trump, who signed the order as he was sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, had a large sign behind him propped on a stand with a map of the Great Lakes. Over Lake Ontario, in big red letters, the map read \u201cLake America.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the other wide of the president was another map with the words, \u201cMAKING THE GREAT LAKES EVEN GREATER.\u201d<\/p>\n

He told reporters that Canada is \u201cthe worst\u201d to deal with on trade<\/a>. \u201cThey feel entitled and we can\u2019t have that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The lake is one of multiple Great Lakes that the U.S. and Canada share borders along.<\/p>\n

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The move, which Trump said was \u201ceffective immediately,\u201d is reminiscent of his move last year to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the \u201cGulf of America.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump on Thursday suggested his push to rename bodies of water may not be finished. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo, if you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean,\u201d Trump said. \u201cSo maybe we\u2019ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and or the Pacific. Maybe we\u2019ll change them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as \u201cLake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[14892,3292,23,103,8834,12,30486,793,3139,22586,9580,3,111,267317,21,19,22,20,25,24,800,965],"class_list":["post-827827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-ak-state-wire","tag-alaska","tag-america","tag-canada","tag-canada-government","tag-donald-trump","tag-executive-orders","tag-general-news","tag-international-trade","tag-lake-ontario","tag-mark-carney","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-trump-hub","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}