Canada’s Ford Likens Trump’s Actions to Saturday Night Live Skit

Ontario Premier Doug Ford ridiculed President Donald Trump’s order changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, while expressing optimism that Canada and the US would eventually overcome their differences on trade and tariffs.

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said that President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America is something out of  “Saturday Night Live.” Ford said, “There’s countries all over the world that want our

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Sunday said that President Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America” resembled “something out of ‘Saturday Night Live.'” Ford slammed Trump’s trade war with Canada that placed a 50 percent tariff on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods in an interview with “This Week” h

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Saturday erected a massive sign saying "Lake Ontario - Now and Always" in a rebuke to President Donald Trump.

Amid an ongoing trade war​ between Canada and the United States, President Trump last week sought to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" by executive order.

'Let's be serious. Long before President Trump, this lake was called Lake Ontario. And long after President Trump is gone it will still be called Lake Ontario,' Ford said on X

Trump’s order says the U.S. lays claim to most of the 'volume' of Lake Ontario and is largely responsible for its security, economic activity and environmental stewardship.

"Now and Always": Doug Ford unveils Lake Ontario sign amid U.S. tariff war  Toronto Star

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a new Lake Ontario sign Saturday afternoon, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump renamed the Great Lake as “Lake America.”

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is set to unveil a Lake Ontario sign in Winona, Ont., after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America."

Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca is calling on President Donald Trump to reverse his executive order changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. One day after Trump inked an executive order on Thursday changing the name of the lake under the official U.S. government, Seneca called the move “unacceptable”

The ongoing economic spat between Canada and the United States took a strange turn after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order “renaming” Lake Ontario as Lake America. The lake is the second body of water to be renamed by Trump. In January 2025, he similarly ordered that the Gulf of Mexico be renamed t