Trump has asked Apple to change Lake Ontario name: Burgum

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said that President Trump has asked tech company Apple to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” after an executive order from the president that pushed the name change.

“I know that the president reached out to Apple directly, so I’m sure that we may be seeing that change coming up soon to Lake America,” Burgum said Monday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” to the channel’s Cheryl Casone.

Apple Maps still showed Lake Ontario with its original name as of Tuesday morning.

Last week, Trump signed an executive order formally changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” amid recent trade tensions with Canada.

“We’re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario effective immediately to Lake America,” Trump said last Thursday.

In the last few weeks, Washington and Ottawa have been locked in a trade dispute, with both sides slapping tariffs on each others’ goods.

On Saturday, Google Maps changed the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” for users in the U.S., kept the original name for Canadian Google users, and kept both names for international users.

Google cited the Great Lake’s name switch-up to the U.S. Geographic Names Information System’s (GNIS) formal renaming.

“Since we update Google Maps to reflect name changes in official government sources, which is GNIS for the U.S., people using Maps in the U.S. will see ‘Lake America,’ those in Canada will continue to see ‘Lake Ontario,’ and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names,” the company said in a statement.