Trump Signs Order Renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America as the trade war between his administration and Canada continues.

The order, Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, directs the Department of the Interior to update all systems to identify it as Lake America.

“This is a lake that has most of its volume in the United States,” Trump was told by a staff member. “The deepest parts of the lake sit in United States territory, so this will reflect that this is an American lake.”

I’d say Trump joked when he mentioned an ocean, but we never know with this guy:

As you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico. We changed it, and now it’s very routinely known as the Gulf of America. So, if you think about it, we have a Gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean. So, maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both.

Trump recently slapped Canada with new 50% tariffs. Canada answered back with its own “dollar-for-dollar” tariffs.

Trump addressed the trade issue:

As you know, Canada has been ripping us off for a long time on trade, very sadly. Even the military, you know, we defend Canada for nothing. We don’t get anything. They don’t pay us to defend Canada, but we defend Canada, and they understand that.

As an example, we bought icebreakers. They’d like to use them. We have 11 brand new icebreakers coming in. They’d like to use the icebreakers.

They don’t pay for anything, and they want to be treated like a state. But they’re not a state. But they want to be treated like they’re a state. And so we just can’t do that anymore.

We lose on average over the last 15 years $60 billion dollars a year carrying Canada. So we just can’t do it anymore. We love the people of Canada. I don’t think their representatives do an appropriate job. Maybe they’ll change. I really don’t know. It doesn’t make much difference.

But we can’t let…the whole Canadian thing has been going on for decades, and it has to come to a stop. So we’re going to be doing tariffs on their cars that are coming in at a substantial level because we want to make the cars here. We don’t want Canada. You know, they can make their own cars if they want, and they can continue to make their cars for Canada, but we don’t want to make, we don’t want them to make cars for the United States of America. It’s very simple. Likewise, many other products. So, the lake change, the Lake of America, was something I’ve been thinking about for a long time.

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