Trump renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America amid escalating Canada trade war — but who gets to decide what goes on maps?
On Aug.
27, 2026, President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming Lake Ontario ‘Lake America,’ claiming his administration had already ‘notified all of the various people you have to notify’
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