Trump has ‘reached out’ to Apple about renaming Lake Ontario on its maps

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Prime Minister Mark Carney responded to Trump’s actions shortly after the executive order was signed, explaining on social media that “the name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means ‘the lake is beautiful, the lake is big’.”

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He added that the name is more than 400 years old and predates both Canadian Confederation and the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

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“We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms,” he wrote. “Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario — then, now and always.”

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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre echoed Carney’s sentiment in his own post on X, adding that the lake is not Trump’s “to rename on a whim.”

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U.S. politicians have also condemned Trump’s executive order, including former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who wrote, “It’s Lake Ontario,” in a post on X, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who said, “The American people don’t want to rename Lake Ontario Lake America.”

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Meanwhile, Trump spent the weekend posting about Canada on Truth Social, including claiming that the U.S. loses $60 billion a year to Canada, that Canada is “ripping off” the U.S. and suggesting that all Canadian companies doing business with America should move to the U.S.

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He also shared a screenshot of the new “Lake America” name on Google Maps and an AI video of himself replacing a “Welcome to Lake Ontario” sign with one that reads “Welcome to Lake America” underneath a U.S. flag.

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