Trump renames Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ in new executive order

President Trump makes it official

Lake Ontario, at least as far as the U.S. government is concerned, is now Lake America

Trump signed the order in the Oval Office Thursday, saying the change takes place immediately

We filed all the necessary papers, documents, everything else. We notified all of the various people that we have to notify

So we've done everything that you have to do. And this is official, effective, immediately

The order directs the Interior Department to change the name in the federal government's geographic database

But just like Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, other countries don't have to recognize it, and neither do states or private companies

Trump says he's doing it because of how Canada's treating the U.S. on trade

The Canadian officials have treated us very badly. They're nasty people. They charge our farmers 400% tariffs. They've been doing it for a long time

This follows the collapse of trade talks between the two countries. With the US now imposing 50 tariffs on roughly billion in Canadian goods Canada has announced its own retaliatory tariffs beginning September 8th Manitoba Premier Wab Kanu took this dig at Trump move

You know when like a rock band is really over the hill and you see them like in a casino playing some song

from like 50 years ago? I think that's the part of Donald Trump's presidency

we're at now. Like he thought he had a real hit, a real golden ollie with the Gulf of Mexico

and he's trying to bring back that. He's trying to play the hits for his base

But I think everybody here thinks it's a little sad and it's not his best word

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pointed out the name Ontario is more than 400 years old

older than both governments at borders. Writing, Canadians also know that naming reality

means calling it Lake Ontario. Then, now, and always. And New York Governor Kathy Hochul's response was much shorter

Quote, New York won't be calling it that. Trump had already been trolling Canada with this map

crossing out Lake Ontario and writing Lake America in its place. And now, for federal government purposes, the edit stays