‘Lake America’: Tantrum-prone Donald Trump is renaming things again

Tantrum prone US president Donald Trump is threatening to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America. It’s a repeat of his weird 2025 decision to rename The Gulf of Mexico the ‘Gulf of America’. Trump is currently in the process of starting a trade war with Canada, a major ally and trading partner. These are classic Trump tactics.

He has pushed to rename the Gulf as soon as he took power in January 2025. At the time, CNN reported:

He has also used his power to make changes that were never mentioned on the campaign trail, like renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.” Most Americans, 71%, oppose the name change, according to a recent Marquette University poll.

Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes, straddles the transcontinental border between Canada and the US. Trump even posted a revised map on social media:

Trump posts a graphic showing Lake Ontario renamed as "Lake America" pic.twitter.com/1YaOdH2b6F

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 25, 2026

ABC reported:

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday morning that he is giving “serious consideration” to renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” — mirroring his move to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America early in his second term.

The president also claimed Canadian PM Mark Carney had falsely claimed Trump would interfere with French Canadians right to speak their language:

I have never even thought of doing such a stupid thing. This lie was made up by a weak and ineffective Prime Minister in an attempt to gain political support, which he has totally lost, from the people of Quebec. I love French Canadians!

French is spoken across Canada, particularly in Quebec, and is an official language in the country. Carney had warned as trade talks collapsed last week that the Trump administration had wanted to make changes to Canada’s use of French.

Carney said:

This was not our choice. We were ready and close to having a comprehensive agreement that would be fair to both countries. But they made changes, including threats on the French language and Quebec culture and Canadian culture. That is not acceptable. That would never be acceptable.

Earlier in 2026, as Trump launched attacks in Latin America and threatened to annex Greenland, there were reports Canada was making plans for a US invasion:

Two Canadian government officials have told reporters that a secret ‘model’ is being developed to fight a guerrilla war — against the US!

The unnamed Canadian officials were quoted in the Globe and Mail — Canada’s leading liberal paper — as saying that its government had:

modelled a hypothetical U.S. military invasion of Canada and the country’s potential response, which includes tactics similar to those employed against Russia and later U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan.

Trump’s belligerence in the region and globally seems to be accelerating. He has attacked multiple countries and openly threatened allies. In Iran alone, these bully boy tactics have failed. Other countries need to start stepping up and speaking the only language the president understands.

Featured image via the Canary

By Joe Glenton

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