Donald Trump

The Hill - 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.

…. 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. 

NBC News -  The Canadian government said it was raising rates on steel products and adding a swath of new duties on $20 billion worth of U.S. products.  The new duties of between 15% and 50% will take effect on Sept. 8, the government said, and “will focus on sectors such as steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics, that are most impacted by U.S. tariffs.”