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Trump orders Lake Ontario to be renamed 'Lake America'

IOL · 27 August 2026 at 19:53

Trump orders Lake Ontario to be renamed 'Lake America'

The name change - which Canada is unlikely to accept - mirrors Trump's changing of the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in January 2025.

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