Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, escalating Canada feud
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Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, escalating Canada feud
President Donald Trump called Canadian officials “nasty people” and said the country “has been ripping us off for a long time on trade, very sadly.”
August 27, 2026 at 5:52 p.m. EDT Yesterday at 5:52 p.m. EDT
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President Donald Trump holds the executive order Thursday renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America. (Evan Vucci/Reuters)
President Donald Trump ordered Lake Ontario to be renamed Lake America, the latest broadside in his escalating feud with Canada.
In the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump signed an order requiring that the U.S. Interior Department update geographic information systems to change the name of the lake, located between New York and Canada. Canadian government officials playing hardball on trade, he said, are “nasty people.”
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