Trump Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America | Richmond News

Richmond News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 28, 2026 · 1m

President Trump just renamed Lake Ontario to “Lake America” in a bold move that underscores rising U.S.-Canada trade tensions, following his earlier rebranding of the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” While the U.S. Geographic Naming Service now officially uses the new name, Canada isn’t bound to follow suit. The lake, historically known to Indigenous peoples as “oniatarí:io” — meaning “lake of shining waters” — and named after the province of Ontario, now becomes a symbolic flashpoint in diplomatic friction. With tariffs on Canadian goods escalating and the President calling Canada’s…