{"id":6230,"date":"2026-08-28T21:42:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6230"},"modified":"2026-08-28T21:42:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:42:41","slug":"trump-officially-signs-executive-order-directing-government-to-rename-lake-ontario-as-lake-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6230","title":{"rendered":"Trump officially signs executive order directing government to rename Lake Ontario as \u2018Lake America\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Republican president signed an\u00a0executive order\u00a0directing the Interior Department to update the lake\u2019s name in the U.S. geographic naming service. Trump cannot force Canada to follow along, however.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6228\">DOJ is turning to an ancient body of law to capture Iranian oil tankers. It\u2019s been so long since the U.S. used it, \u2018we\u2019d have to conduct a s\u00e9ance\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has been floating the idea of the name change in recent days as the U.S. announced it was imposing\u00a050% tariffs\u00a0on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods over the weekend after talks between the countries broke down. Trump has been needling America\u2019s northern neighbor since he returned to the White House last year, suggesting the ally with whom the U.S. once had warm relations should instead be absorbed as the\u00a051st state.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Canada responded to Trump\u2019s import taxes this week by imposing retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of American goods, including steel, dairy products, appliances and farm equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who signed the order as he was sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, had a large sign behind him propped on a stand with a map of the Great Lakes. Over Lake Ontario, in big red letters, the map read \u201cLake America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the president was another map with the words, \u201cMAKING THE GREAT LAKES EVEN GREATER.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump said as he was signing the order that he\u2019d \u201cnotified all of the various people that we have to notify. So, we\u2019ve done everything that you have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this is official, effective immediately,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But the executive order Trump signed shows that the changes are supposed to be made within 30 days.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Canadian officials dismissed Trump\u2019s move.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected the move, invoking the lake\u2019s Indigenous roots and noting that the name predates both Canadian Confederation and the U.S. Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario \u2014 then, now and always,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who has traded insults with Trump, said on X: \u201cIt\u2019s Lake Ontario to Canadians and the rest of the world. Now and forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said, \u201cWe\u2019re into some real foolishness now. It\u2019s Lake Ontario, buddy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6226\">The Best Mineral Sunscreens in 2026: Protection Without the Chalky Finish<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lake is one of multiple Great Lakes that the U.S. and Canada share borders along. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat whose state shares a border on the lake, wrote on X in response to the White House\u2019s announcement that, \u201cNew York won\u2019t be calling it that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There is no single international body that determines names of international bodies of water and Trump has wide latitude over how the U.S. government recognizes geographic places and landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>The name Lake Ontario comes from the Huron Indigenous people\u2019s word \u201coniatar\u00ed:io,\u201d which means \u201clake of shining waters.\u201d The province of Ontario, founded in 1867, took its name from the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that while his action was not meant to send any particular geopolitical message, \u201cCanada\u2019s been ripping us off for a long time\u201d on trade and military issues.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey wanted to be treated like a state and they\u2019re not a state,\u201d the president said. \u201cWe just can\u2019t do that anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love the people of Canada,\u201d Trump added. \u201cI don\u2019t think their representatives do, an appropriate job. Maybe they\u2019ll change. I really don\u2019t know. It doesn\u2019t make much difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move is reminiscent of his move last year to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the \u201cGulf of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump scribbled his name with a Sharpie pen on the executive order, then held it up for the cameras, offering, \u201cAnd we filed all the necessary papers, documents, everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also suggested his push to rename bodies of water may not be finished.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSo, if you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean,\u201d Trump said. \u201cSo maybe we\u2019ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and\/or the Pacific. Maybe we\u2019ll change them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6219\">\u2018I don\u2019t have to announce everything, do I?\u2019 Trump bristles at questions over blocked Hormuz, sanction-free China<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press writer Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian leaders rejected Trump\u2019s move to rename Lake Ontario as \u201cLake America\u201d in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump officially signs executive order directing government to rename Lake Ontario as \u2018Lake America\u2019 - 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