“The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.
Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes in North America, which together compose the largest freshwater system in the world. It borders the Canadian province of Ontario, which was named after the lake, as well as the U.S. state of New York.
It is possible that Trump could order the U.S. federal government to refer to Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” but he cannot require other nations to adhere to the change. When he signed an Executive Order last year to call the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” the directive only applied to the U.S. federal government, and other nations continue to refer to the body of water as the Gulf of Mexico. Many other entities—such as The Associated Press, which sets style guidelines that many news outlets follow—have also stuck to the original name for the gulf.
The origin of the lake’s name, which derives from Indigenous words referring to the lake, predates the founding of both countries.
Tough talks
Both countries have blamed the other for trade negotiations collapsing. In a statement on Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney accused the U.S. of wanting “last-minute changes” to the trade deal that he said were “unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.”
Trump, meanwhile, has accused Canada of “‘Ripping Off’ the U.S.A. for decades,” calling the northern neighbor “difficult and unreasonable.”
When asked about Trump’s threat to rename Lake Ontario, the province’s Premier Doug Ford said on CNN on Tuesday that he thought it was “a lot of rhetoric” and emphasized the strong trading ties between Ontario and many U.S. states.
Canadian Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who oversees trade with the U.S., was also asked about Trump’s Truth Social posts on CNBC, and replied: “We’ve decided as a federal government months ago not to respond to sort of the daily social media posts of either the President or his Cabinet secretaries and so on. We’re focused on doing what we can in Canada to build our economy and to having a constructive relationship with the government of the United States, our most important trading partner.”
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