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Trump Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America | Texas News
President Trump just renamed Lake Ontario to “Lake America” — effective immediately — in a bold move tied to ongoing U.S.-Canada trade tensions. He’s targeting Canadian agricultural imports and pushing for more auto manufacturing in the U.S., hinting at new tariffs. This isn’t his first geographic rename — he previously declared the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” — revealing a pattern of using place names to signal foreign policy clashes. But here’s the catch: the official U.S. Board on Geographic Names, established in 1890, handles such changes — and even they can’t force global…
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