WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump signed an order on Thursday to officially rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, effective immediately.
“Canada has been ripping us off for a long time on trade, very sadly,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office after signing the executive order. “Even the military, you know, we defend Canada for nothing. We don’t get anything.”
The U.S. Department of the Interior will update the Geographic Names Information System to reflect the new name.
Trump first suggested the idea of renaming the lake on Aug. 25 after Ontario Premier Doug Ford criticized him with insults and profane language over the new U.S. tariffs on Aug. 24. Trump subsequently issued statements of his own with insults directed at Ford.
When asked about the issue, Ford said on Aug. 25 that it’s best the two sides tone down the rhetoric, adding that things “got a little personal yesterday between the president and myself.” Canada’s Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said on the same day that, “We’ll always call it Lake Ontario, period.”
“While all of these shenanigans are happening, we’ll just be smart and we’ll be strategic, and we’ll fight back,” she said.
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