President Donald Trump holds up a signed govt order within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, Thursday, August 27, 2026, in Washington.
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U.S. President Donald Trump stated on Thursday (August 27, 2026) that he’s renaming Lake Ontario to be often known as “Lake America” in the US as he exacerbates his commerce struggle with Canada.
The Republican President signed an govt order that up to date the lake’s identify for the U.S. geographic naming service. Mr. Trump can not drive Canada to comply with his most popular naming conference, nevertheless.
Mr. Trump has been floating the concept of the identify change in latest days because the U.S. announced it was imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion value of Canadian items over the weekend after talks between the nations broke down.
Mr. Trump has been needling America’s northern neighbour since he returned to the White Home final yr, suggesting the ally with whom the U.S. as soon as had heat relations ought to as an alternative be absorbed because the 51st state.
Canada responded to Mr. Trump’s import taxes this week by imposing retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion value of American items, together with metal, dairy merchandise, home equipment and farm gear
Mr. Trump, who signed the order as he was sitting on the Resolute Desk within the Oval Workplace, had a big signal behind him propped on a stand with a map of the Nice Lakes. Over Lake Ontario, in large pink letters, the map learn “Lake America.”
On the opposite extensive of the President was one other map with the phrases, “MAKING THE GREAT LAKES EVEN GREATER.”
He informed reporters that Canada is “the worst” to take care of on commerce. “They really feel entitled and we will’t have that,” he stated.
The workplace of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. The lake is one in every of a number of Nice Lakes that the U.S. and Canada share borders alongside.
The transfer, which Trump stated was “efficient instantly,” is harking back to his transfer final yr to rename the Gulf of Mexico because the “Gulf of America.’”
Mr. Trump on Thursday (August 27, 2026) urged his push to rename our bodies of water is probably not completed.
“So, if you consider it, we now have a gulf, and we now have a lake. Now, all we’d like is an ocean,” Mr. Trump stated. “So possibly we’ll have to alter the identify of the Atlantic and or the Pacific. Possibly we’ll change them.”
Carney says Lake Ontario’s identify to stay ‘now and all the time’
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday (August 27, 2026) pushed again towards Mr. Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario, citing the identify’s Indigenous origins, because the row between the neighbors roiled on.
“We all know that America is altering. Their buying and selling relationships, their overseas insurance policies, their nationwide monuments, their hydronyms,” Mr. Carney stated in a put up on X.
“Canadians additionally know that naming actuality means calling it Lake Ontario — then, now and all the time.”
(With inputs from AP and AFP)
Printed – August 28, 2026 12:07 am IST
