US President Donald Trump has officially renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” as trade-related tensions between Canada and the United States continue to escalate.
“We’re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately, to Lake America,” Trump declared in the Oval Office on Thursday before signing an executive order that requires federal agencies to use the new name on government maps, contracts, documents and communications.
The change was swiftly put into effect on August 27, 2026, with Trump sharing a letter from the US Geological Survey confirming that the federal Geographic Names Information System had already been updated.
The renaming caps a bitter week in which the trade dispute between Washington and Ottawa rapidly descended into personal insults and threats. The confrontation erupted after negotiations collapsed and Washington imposed 50% tariffs (*read : consumer tax hike scam) on roughly $20 billion worth of Canadian imports.
Washington cannot force Canada or international organizations to recognize the change, but it can dictate terminology across the US federal government.
On his first day back in office in January 2025, Trump similarly ordered the Gulf of Mexico renamed the “Gulf of America” for federal purposes – and suggested Thursday that another geographic rebranding could be next.
“We have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean,” he said. “So maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both.”
Or its all theater…. Question everything believe nothing! 2020 should have taught people this lesson but millions continue to stay blindfolded believing what we see are politicians at war with each other.
Canada has a bad southern neighbor and would do well to foster good relations with Russia as they both encircle the Arctic Ocean and are thus geographic northern neighbors.
Are you retarded!? Canada is a libtard corporate plantation that outsourced nearly all of its manufacturing- where its worker investment has lagged behind, and its worker output is extremely low. Canada has suckled on the teat of the US since NAFTA, and long before that- and now Canada is in a recession, while its source of economic growth of the housing market- has dried up! Are you Indian or Middle Eastern or Black- because otherwise, you sound like a traitor to the White race, believing Canada to be anything than an anti-White traitor country. You’re a bunch of billiard soy… Read more »
To add to this articles mental aberrations of Donald across the ATLANTIC ( before Donald renames it ) -4000 miles away -no not “The Pond ” -UK –the EU has suggested to Canada that it “joins ” the EU . Forget the fact the EU translates as European Union ( not easy when its 4000 miles away ) they want to tear Canada away from “bad ” Donald . Of course with NATO now interfering in the far east names don’t mean much now. As Donald changes his mind from minute to minute indicating lack of mental stability ( don’t… Read more »