Trump Posts “Lake America” Map After Ordering Lake Ontario Renamed
Trump shares a graphic recasting Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” days after signing an executive order to rename the Great Lake amid an escalating trade war with Canada.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump posted a stylized map relabeling Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” reinforcing an executive order he signed to rename the shared Great Lake amid an escalating trade war with Canada.
The graphic recasts the easternmost Great Lake as a “freshwater sea,” placing the label “Lake America” over water bordered by New York and the Canadian province of Ontario. The image marks the cities of Toronto, Kingston, Rochester and Oswego, along with the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers.
Here is the full post on truthsocial: “LAKE AMERICA THE GREAT LAKES .FRESHWATER SEA • ONTARIO CANADA TORONTO NIAGARA RIVER KINGSTON AJAX ST. LAWRENCE RIVER LAKE AMERICA ROCHESTER NEW YORK USA OSWEGO LAKE AMERICA IS THE EASTERNMOST GREAT LAKE AND FORMS PART OF THE BORDER BETWEEN CANADA AND NEW YORK, USA.” on August 29, 2026 at 11:16 AM ET.
This is Trump’s 7th message released today, out of 8 total, and the last post was 25 minutes ago, and it is not part of a thread. On average, Trump produces 18 posts per day since his inauguration on January 20, 2025. The move fits a broader pattern in Trump’s recent messaging, with 39 of his 634 posts over the last 30 days classified as Uncategorized posts.
The post follows an executive order titled “Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America,” signed August 27, 2026, according to whitehouse.gov. The order directs the Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with the Board on Geographic Names, to take all appropriate actions within 30 days to rename the body of water currently known as Lake Ontario, according to whitehouse.gov.
The order asserts that the United States claims most of the Lake’s volume because the deepest parts of its waters lie within United States territory, according to whitehouse.gov. It states the United States Coast Guard supplies 9 of the 11 ice breaking vessels on the Great Lakes. The order says the United States has invested nearly $4 billion in protecting the Great Lakes freshwater ecosystem in the last decade, according to whitehouse.gov.
President Donald J. Trump posted a stylized map relabeling Lake Ontario as "Lake America" at WASHINGTON D.C.
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The move came after trade talks between the United States and Canada collapsed, with the United States imposing new 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, according to bbc. Canada will implement “dollar for dollar” counter-tariffs the following month, according to bbc.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected the renaming and said the name traces back more than 400 years, predating both the Canadian Confederation and the United States Declaration of Independence, according to nbcnews. “We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario — then, now and always,” Carney wrote, according to nbcnews.
Trump has broad discretion over how the United States recognizes landmarks, but other countries do not have to follow, according to bbc. The executive order applies only to official documents and maps of the federal government, hinging on a United States statute that mandates uniformity in geographic naming, according to kcra. Former federal prosecutor Alyse Adamson told CNN the change will have “zero impact” on anyone outside United States jurisdiction, according to kcra.
The renaming echoes Trump’s earlier order changing the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” on his first day back in office, according to nbcnews. The Interior Department, Google® and Apple complied with that directive, while the rest of the world largely did not, according to nbcnews. Trump suggested further renamings could follow, floating changes to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, according to kcra.
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