Trump’s ‘renaming’ of Lake Ontario is emblematic of centuries of colonial erasure

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

‘Outraged, appalled, shocked’: First Nations leader reacts to Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario  Toronto Star

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Maritimers are weighing in on the U.S. President's recent threats to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America.

Democrat Hillary Clinton apparently does not like that President Donald Trump, the man to whom she lost the 2016 presidential election, has renamed Lake Ontario.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said Lake Ontario will continue to be called by that name, despite Trump's Executive Order.

Trump suggests renaming Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' amid trade tensions with Canada. While he can influence US federal names.

Trump says 'maybe I wasn't' kidding about renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America  USA Today

The move comes amid heightened tensions in the region, including over the Strait of Hormuz, which connects the controversially referenced gulf to the Arabian Sea.

It was back in early 2025 that US president Donald Trump announced a policy which did absolutely nothing to help Americans with food prices: renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America because “we do most of the work there and it’s ours”.

Trump floats renaming Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’  CNN

WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) -- With his trade war with Canada intensifying, U.S. President Donald Trump floated the idea of renaming Lake Ontario to become

US President Donald Trump said he's considering the name change amid increasingly difficult trade relations between the US and Canada.