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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to rename Lake Ontario \u201cLake America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move comes amid the president\u2019s repeated threats and taunts that he would do so amid his escalating trade war with Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is official, effective immediately,\u201d Trump said after signing the order in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president said he\u2019d \u201cfiled all the necessary papers, documents, everything else\u201d for the name change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe notified all of the various people that we have to notify. So we\u2019ve done everything that you have to do, and this is official, effective immediately,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The order says that with \u201cthe deepest parts of the Lake\u2019s waters lying within United States territory, the United States claims most of the Lake\u2019s volume,\u201d and that the \u201cLake has long been an integral asset to American exploration, settlement, commerce, and defense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked what message he was trying to send Canada by renaming the Great Lake, Trump said, \u201cNo message. As you know, Canada has been ripping us off for a long time on trade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t pay for anything, and they want to be treated like a state, but they\u2019re not a state,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney noted on X a short time after Trump\u2019s action that the name predates Canada \u2014 and the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari\u2019io, which, appropriately, means \u2018the lake is beautiful, the lake is big\u2019. The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe 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 \u2014 then, now and always,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake Ontario has been called Lake Ontario since at least the 1600s, and it is the inspiration of the name for Canada\u2019s most populous province, Ontario, which is home to Ottawa and Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump made a similar move last year to rename the Gulf of Mexico the \u201cGulf of America.\u201d The Interior Department, Google and Apple complied with that directive, while the rest of the world largely has not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump suggested Thursday other larger renamings could follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, the lake change, Lake of America, was something I\u2019ve been thinking about for a long time. Actually, as you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico. We changed it, and now it\u2019s very routinely the Gulf of America. So, if you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake,\u201d he said. \u201cNow, all we need is an ocean. So, maybe we\u2019ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and\/or the Pacific. Maybe we\u2019ll change them both.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian maritime attorney Marc Isaacs told NBC News this week that a U.S. move on a name change of Lake Ontario wouldn\u2019t affect other countries, including Canada, saying that no officials in either country own the naming rights to the lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Americans can call it whatever they want to call it,\u201d Isaacs said. \u201cIt is Lake Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian Minister of Industry M\u00e9lanie Joly shrugged off Trump\u2019s initial threats to change the name earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll always call it Lake Ontario. Period,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re proud of our Great Lakes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to rename Lake Ontario \u201cLake America.\u201d The move comes amid the president\u2019s repeated threats and taunts that he would do so amid his escalating trade war with Canada. \u201cThis is official, effective immediately,\u201d Trump said after signing the order in the Oval Office. 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