NewzThe executive order follows the collapse of trade talks between the US and Canada last week, with each side blaming the other for derailing three days of intensive negotiations. President Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, directing federal agencies to update official maps and documents. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he escalates his trade war with Canada.
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario amid an escalating trade dispute with Canada .(Image credit: Andrew Harnik) The US president signed an executive order in the Oval Office while sitting beside an enlarged map of the lake with the words “Lake America” stamped over it in red ink. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” in the United States on Thursday.
Donald Trump has been floating the idea of the name change in recent days as the U.S. announced it was imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods over the weekend after talks between the countries broke down Donald Trump has signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" in the US, as his administration's trade dispute with neighbouring Canada intensifies.
'Canada has been ripping us off for a long time on trade,' U.S. President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is renaming Lake Ontario — a large body of water shared by the United States and Canada — “Lake America.” Trump signed an order in the White House in a move that comes amid a spiraling trade war between the world’s largest economy and its northern neighbor. “We’re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario effective immediately to Lake America,” the 80-year-old Republican told reporters in the Oval Office.
“The Canadian officials have treated us very badly. They’re nasty people.” The name change — which Canada is unlikely to accept — mirrors Trump’s changing of the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in January 2025. “The lake change, Lake of America, was something I’ve been thinking about for a long time, actually.
As you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico, we changed it, and now it’s very routinely the Gulf of America,” Trump said. “So, if you think about it, we have a Gulf and we have a lake. So, maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific.
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