President Donald Trump said on Thursday (August 27, 2026) that he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he exacerbates his trade war with Canada.
The Republican President signed an executive order that updated the lake’s name for the U.S. geographic naming service. Mr. Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however. Mr. On the other wide of the President was another map with the words, “MAKING THE GREAT LAKES EVEN GREATER. The office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The lake is one of multiple Great Lakes that the U.S. and Canada share borders along. Now, all we need is an ocean,” Mr. “So maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them.”
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.
He told reporters that Canada is “the worst” to deal with on trade. “They feel entitled and we can’t have that,” he said. The move, which Trump said was “effective immediately,” is reminiscent of his move last year to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.’” “So, if you think about it, we have a gulf, and we have a lake. Trump said.
