{"id":659991,"date":"2026-08-27T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/659991\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:30:12","slug":"trump-signs-order-renaming-lake-ontario-to-lake-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/659991\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario to &#8216;Lake America&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump announced Thursday that he is renaming Lake Ontario \u2013 a large body of water shared by the United States and Canada \u2013 \u201cLake America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump signed an order in the White House in a move that comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/canada-us-retaliatory-tariffs-7141727-Aug2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">amid a spiralling trade war<\/a> between the neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Canada announced retaliatory tariffs on about $20bn (\u20ac17.15 billion) worth of American goods\u00a0after the Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs over the weekend on Canadian goods following the collapse of trade negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Trump intensified the confrontation at the time by saying the US was giving \u201cserious consideration\u201d to renaming Lake Ontario \u201cLake America\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The lake, which is one of the five Great Lakes of North America,\u00a0shares a name with the Canadian province of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The Canada\u2013US border spans the centre of the lake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787869812_554_.jpeg\"  alt=\"washington-dc-usa-27th-aug-2026-a-poster-shows-the-name-change-from-lake-ontario-to-lake-america-as-us-president-donald-trump-signs-an-executive-order-on-the-renaming-amid-a-recent-trade-war-i\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            A poster shows the name change from Lake Ontario to Lake America, as US President Donald Trump signs an executive order on the renaming in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC.                     Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n<p>    Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n<p>Trump told reporters in the Oval Office today that the change will be \u201ceffective immediately\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Canadian officials have treated us very badly. They\u2019re nasty people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A poster displaying the name change from Lake Ontario to Lake America was in the Oval Office as Trump signed the executive order.<\/p>\n<p>The name change \u2013 which Canada is unlikely to accept \u2013 mirrors Trump\u2019s changing of the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in January 2025.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">BREAKING: President Trump officially changes the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean.&#8221; \ud83d\udc40 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OZOmfibisP\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OZOmfibisP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2093034548518855099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump said today he has been thinking of the change \u201cfor a long time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico, we changed it, and now it\u2019s very routinely the Gulf of America,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if you think about it, we have a Gulf and we have a lake. Now all we need is an ocean. So, maybe we\u2019ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and\/or the Pacific. Maybe we\u2019ll change them both,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney uploaded a post on X this evening addressing the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari\u2019io, which, appropriately, means \u2018the lake is beautiful, the lake is big,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the name is over 400 years old, predating the Confederation of Canada and the US Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario \u2013 then, now and always.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With additional reporting from AFP.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump announced Thursday that he is renaming Lake Ontario \u2013 a large body of water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,995,356,13,14,6,237433,11,12,15,16,278820,5,1255,7,8,3429,384,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-659991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-lake-ontario","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-make-america-lake-again","tag-news","tag-tariffs","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-trade-war","tag-united-states","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117169844467302104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}