Trump eyes changing Lake Ontario name amid trade war with Canada

President Trump said Tuesday his administration is considering changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, amid the trade war between the U.S. and Canada.

“The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social .

It would not be the first time the president has sought to rename a body of water bordering the U.S. and another country. Last year, Trump signed an executive ordering renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America .

Trade tensions between Washington and Ottawa devolved into an all-out trade war over the weekend after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney removed negotiators from trade talks with the U.S.

Carney’s move came before a new set of tariffs from the Trump administration on Canada were set to go into effect.

The prime minister then announced that Ottawa would enact retaliatory tariffs in response to the U.S.’s new 50 percent tariffs starting Sept. 8. The Canadian leader said during a press conference that his nation would “match Washington’s new tariffs dollar for dollar in order to protect Canadian workers, farmers, families and businesses.”

Ontario Premier Doug Ford also lashed out at Trump over the levies, threatening on Monday to cut the province’s power exports to the U.S.

“We power 1.5 million homes and businesses,” Ford told reporters Monday. “Everything’s on the table. I’ll do whatever it takes.”

“You won’t get a grain of sand out of Ontario,” he added.