Trump considers renaming Lake Ontario as trade dispute with Canada escalates
US President Donald Trump said he was considering renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” amid an escalating trade dispute with Canada.
Washington, United States. US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was considering changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” as a trade dispute between the United States and Canada escalates.
Trump made the comment in a post on Truth Social, saying the United States did not expect to conduct much business with Ontario.
Trump’s proposal
“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.
Lake Ontario is one of North America’s five Great Lakes and borders the Canadian province of Ontario and the US state of New York.
Canadian response
Canada’s minister responsible for US trade, Dominic LeBlanc, said Canada would not respond to social media posts by the US administration.
“We’ve decided as a federal government months ago not to respond to sort of the daily social media posts of either the president or his cabinet secretaries,” LeBlanc said in an interview with CNBC.
Previous renaming
Trump’s comments followed his decision last year to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
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