Trump Renames Lake Ontario

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Interior Department and Board on Geographic Names to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” in U.S. federal maps, documents, databases and the geographic naming service. The order came after U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed last week and amid new U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods and planned Canadian retaliatory tariffs. The change applies only to U.S. government usage; Trump cannot require Canada, international bodies, private mapmakers or other governments to adopt the name.