Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has responded to President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario on Thursday.
Trump signed the order in the Oval Office on Thursday amid the United States’ ongoing trade disputes with Canada, with the president announcing the lake would be renamed ‘Lake America.’
In response, Evers took to social media to sign an ‘executive order’ of his own, announcing that Lake Michigan would be renamed ‘Lake Wisconsin’ in the future.
Evers’ order wasn’t the only one a Midwestern governor “issued” in response to Trump, as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced he would “rename” Trump Tower as “Natalie Tower.”
The name references Natalie Harp, Trump’s 35-year-old “executive assistant” who gained notoriety in a new book called “Regime Change,” and then was vaulted into the national consciousness further when Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff blasted Trump, saying the president didn’t want to do the job and instead wanted to “build his ballroom and travel with Natalie.”
Ossoff was criticized by many Republicans for the remark, but the statement certainly caused the political media to take notice, with numerous reports coming out about just how closely Harp has followed the president during his second term in office.
Amid that controversy, the president signed an executive order Thursday directing the Interior Department to update the name of Lake Ontario in the U.S. geographic naming service. Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected the move, invoking the lake’s Indigenous roots and noting that the name predates both Canadian Confederation and the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
“Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario — then, now and always,” he wrote.
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston dismissed Trump’s move in a social media post, writing: “We’re into some real foolishness now. It’s Lake Ontario, buddy.”
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Huron Indigenous people’s word “oniatarí:io,” which means “lake of shining waters.” The province of Ontario, founded in 1867, took its name from the lake.
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