# Can Trump really rename Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’?

https://mins.news/en/item/35807

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-28 14:36 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/28/can-trump-really-rename-lake-ontario-lake-america?traffic_source=rss

> Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to rename the lake shared by the United States and Canada as “Lake America”, tying the move to trade tensions. The order gives the interior secretary 30 days to work with the Board on Geographic Names, while Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected the change and defended the lake’s more than 400-year-old name.

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