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Trump orders new name for lake – Canada reacts
Updated August 27, 2026 – 11:10 p.mReading time: 8 minutes
Trump talks about his CIA chief’s trip to Moscow – and orders the name of a lake to be changed. All developments in the news blog.
Canada responds to Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has responded to the renaming of Lake Ontario by US President Donald Trump Reacts. He pointed out to X that the name comes from the indigenous Wendat language. The word “Ontari’io” means something like “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”. The name is more than 400 years old, and well before the founding of Canada and the USA developed. “We know that the United States is changing. Its trade relationships, its foreign policy, its monuments, its names for bodies of water. Canadians also know that to call reality by its name is to say ‘Lake Ontario’ – then, now and forever,” Carney wrote.
Trump officially orders new name for lake
US President Donald Trump has intensified his provocations against Canada: He signed on Thursday in Washington a decree renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America”. The change is “effective immediately,” Trump said. The background is bitter Trade dispute between the USA and Canada. At the same time, Trump threatened further name changes – for example for the Atlantic.
Trump had previously released a map with the lake’s new name in a video message and said the U.S. didn’t expect to “do much more business with Ontario.” The border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the US federal state runs through Lake Ontario new York. The body of water is one of the five Great Lakes in North America. The trade dispute between the USA and Canada escalated over the weekend after negotiations failed. After the US government announced high tariffs against the neighboring country, Canada imposed counter tariffs.
In his second term, Trump repeatedly caused irritation with claims to foreign territory. The Gulf of Mexico He renamed the Gulf of America by decree on the first day of his second term in office. The US President now said that the USA now has a gulf and a lake. “Now we just need one ocean. So maybe we need to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific,” Trump added. “Maybe we’ll even change both.”
US aircraft carrier to be relocated to the Middle East
The US Navy is apparently preparing to send the aircraft carrier “USS Theodore Roosevelt” to the Middle East. The ship with around 5,000 crew members is scheduled to set off in the coming weeks for a deployment that will last at least seven months, the US broadcaster reports CNN citing senior Navy officials. The “Theodore Roosevelt” will later replace the “USS George Washington,” which is currently deployed in the region.
