Trump Avenue in Ottawa Set to Change Its ‘Embarrassing’ Name

Mike Segar / REUTERS Trump Avenue has hit a dead end.

The 80-year-old president stirred up big feelings over the summer after he said he was renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America as part of a wider economic and diplomatic spat with Canada.

Reprisals from folks north of the border have since followed, the latest of which is taking place in Canada’s own capital, Ottawa.

Its city council unanimously voted on Wednesday to rename Trump Avenue, as Canadians remain in lockstep behind Prime Minister Mark Carney.

“I don’t like the idea of anything that’s named for Donald Trump, who has demonstrated hostility towards Canada,” Ottawa’s mayor Mark Sutcliffe told the press following the vote.

Ottawa named the street after Trump in the late 1990s to highlight his success as a real estate developer.

Ordering deliveries can be tough for folks on the street, which has 65 houses.

“It’s embarrassing, like they just chuckle and laugh,” 65-year-old retiree John Germano told The New York Times .

“It gets worse and worse every day.” Canadians have grown to feel increasingly slighted by the president, who has spoken openly about his desire to make their country the 51st U.S. state.

America’s closest ally was no exception either to his sprawling tariff scheme, and in August negotiators from Ottawa and Washington, D.C., failed to reach a new trade agreement.

That meant Trump’s tariffs took effect in the days that followed.

They soon met reprisals from north of the border.

A trade war ensued.

Ottawa councilor Riley Brockington is fronting the effort to change the name and replace it with something else.