Can Trump actually change Lake Ontario to 'Lake America'? Here’s what to know
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario, a body of water shared between the United States and Canada, to "Lake America."
The action coincides with an ongoing tariff war between the United States and Canada. The move raises questions regarding the legal and practical feasibility of unilaterally altering the name of an international shared geographic feature.
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Al Jazeera (QA)Frames the renaming explicitly within the context of an ongoing tariff war with Canada.