It’s now “official,” at least according to a video with President Donald Trump holding a map: There’s now a “Lake America.”
That’s, of course, in replacement of “Lake Ontario,” and the change is a result of the economic friction between the U.S. and Canada.
A report at Not the Bee said, “We’re making the lakes great again! President Trump this week announced his intentions to rename another body of water after the greatest country on earth. AND he released a TikTok. He used his signature Sharpie to cross out Ontario and write America and, as far as I can tell, that’s all the president needs to do to put this into effect.”
Trump, of course, earlier renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, and got pushback mostly from legacy media organizations who insisted they were the ones determining such names.
Trump said, “So this is Lake Ontario in Canada and the United States. We’re gonna make a little change. We’re gonna call it something different than Lake Ontario. We’re gonna call it Lake America. And all it takes is a good pen and some intelligence.”
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 27, 2026
Social media wasn’t silent:
“His next book should be ‘Art of the Troll’ because despite his faults, he really is the goat.”
“lol love it Canada big mad and they fell right into the box.”
“I laughed so hard I cried. Great way to start the morning. ”
TRUMP: “I support the Great Lakes. Always have. They are beautiful. They are big. Very deep. Record deepness, right?” pic.twitter.com/GCSXHp5RdG
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 28, 2019
WorldNetDaily documented when Trump brought up the idea.
It happened when he turned a dispute over tariffs and trade into an attack on Canada’s ego.
He’s already succeed with this strategy once before, announcing early in his second term in the White House that the old “Gulf of Mexico” now is the “Gulf of America.” His executive order actually only controlled the references by the executive branch but now even online resources say, “The Gulf of America is a partially landlocked body of water on the southeastern edge of North America, connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Straits of Florida and to the Caribbean Sea through the Yucatán Channel … It spans approximately 1,100 miles east-west and 800 miles north-south, covering around 600,000 square miles (1,550,000 square km) of sea.”
He had announced:
The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
( TS: Aug 25 2026, 6:58 AM ET )… pic.twitter.com/X5TxYS8TaV
— Commentary Donald J. Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) August 25, 2026
President Trump says the U.S. is considering changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” writing on his platform Truth Social, “we don’t expect to be doing business with Ontario any longer.” pic.twitter.com/ATCzhsGhe0
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 25, 2026
Trump, frustrated with Canada’s “ridiculously high” tariffs on American products, confirmed a 50% tariff on many Canadian products, starting New Year’s Day.
He said, “Canada has been ripping off the United States of America for years.
He said negotiations were ended when Canada imposed some last-minute demands. Canada then responded with its own tariffs.
Trade discussions had been taking place, but ended. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer indicated Canada was responsible for the collapse of trade-deal negotiations last week, telling CNBC that Ottawa changed its demands at the last minute.
Trump has been in a war of words with Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, since, and rejected Carney’s claims that the U.S. wanted concessions affecting the use of the French language in Canada.
“I would never interfere with Canadians speaking French!” Trump wrote. “In fact, I have never even thought of doing such a stupid thing. This lie was made up by a weak and ineffective Prime Minister in an attempt to gain political support, which he has totally lost, from the people of Quebec. I love French Canadians!”
A report at Fox News said Greer confirmed that Carney’s claims were a “funny, fake story.”
Vice President JD Vance confirmed an agreement had been close before Canadian officials issued “what he described as unreasonable demands to the table at the last minute,” the report said.
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