President Donald Trump introduced Tuesday morning that he’s giving “severe consideration” to renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” — mirroring his transfer to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America early in his second time period.
Trump later posted on his social media platform an altered map of the lake and surrounding space.
The map posted by Trump depicts the good lake with the official “Lake Ontario” label crossed out. As a replacement is a “Lake America” label in a bigger, gold-colored font and a graphic of an American flag.
Similar to the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario is a shared worldwide waterway and a number of worldwide, federal, and regional companies oversee it.
Break up alongside the U.S.-Canada border, New York State and Ontario every govern their very own portion of the lakebed and shoreline. The U.S. and Canada collectively handle it by means of the Worldwide Joint Fee and Nice Lakes Water High quality Settlement.
And similar to the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, Trump can unilaterally change a geographic identify for official U.S. federal authorities use, like his motion through government order in that case — however he does not have the authority to dictate what different nations or worldwide our bodies name it.
President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meet within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, Oct. 7, 2025, in Washington.
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Trump on Tuesday additionally rejected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s claims that the U.S. was making threats on Canada’s use of the French language, versus English, as a part of the ongoing trade war. Trump mentioned on social media that he would “by no means intervene with Canadians talking French.”
“I’ve by no means even considered doing such a silly factor. This lie was made up by a weak and ineffective Prime Minister in an try to realize political help, which he has completely misplaced, from the individuals of Quebec. I really like French Canadians!” Trump posted on his social media platform.
Throughout a press convention on Saturday, Carney claimed that one of many causes the commerce talks with the U.S. collapsed is as a result of the Trump administration needed Canada to make modifications to their use of the French language.
“This was not our alternative. We had been prepared and near having a complete settlement that will be truthful to each nations. However they made modifications, together with threats on the French language and Quebec tradition and Canadian tradition. That isn’t acceptable. That might by no means be acceptable,” Carney mentioned.
Carney clarified at an occasion Monday that his feedback on the French language and tradition had been in regards to the U.S. opposition to Quebec legal guidelines that require streaming providers to hold a specific amount of French content material and require bilingual labelling on all merchandise offered within the province.
The bilingual labelling legislation, Invoice 96, is formally thought-about a commerce irritant by the Trump administration and was included as such within the final Nationwide Commerce Estimate report. The report acknowledges that the legislation is supposed to strengthen using the French language, however that, “america inspired the Quebec provincial authorities to consider enterprise sector considerations and contain companies within the drafting of additional interpretive steerage on this legislation.”
