Trump's Lake America Renaming Order Faces Criticism from Native Leader
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A day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America" amid a trade war with Canada, the leader of Seneca Nation of Indians asked him to reverse it.
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HuffPostDonald Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” is apparently working out great ― for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, that is.
The Guardian USAs well as being a distraction, this pathetic maneuver is supposed to be a middle finger to Canada. Trade negotiations between the US and Canada recently collapsed, with the Trump administration imposing a 50% tariff on some goods and the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, promising a “dollar for dollar” response. One suspects that Trump thinks Lake Ontario is named after the Canadian province it borders. Ergo he reckons a unilateral name change is a good way of showing the US’s northern neighbour who is boss.
The Daily WireIn response, Trump declared he was going to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake Screw You, Canada, whereupon the Canadians broke down and said that if we would just continue to name the lake after them, they would do anything we wanted, so we told them to stop talking with those stupid accents, because it’s just annoying. The deal should be finalized as soon as the White House can find someone who speaks French.
Washington ExaminerIn Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney‘s response to Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario on the U.S. side, he also noted the lake’s indigenous roots.
New York Times‘Lake America’? These Upstate New Yorkers Aren’t Letting Go of ‘Ontario.’ President Trump on Thursday signed an order rechristening Lake Ontario as Lake America, but businesses around Niagara Falls say they won’t be changing their tune.
VoxWelcome to The Logoff: Donald Trump says he’s renaming Lake Ontario. Let’s talk about it.
Washington TimesIt was the latest show of defiance after Trump signed an executive order directing U.S. federal agencies to call Lake Ontario “Lake America.” After months of tariffs, threats to make Canada the 51st U.S. state and personal attacks on its leaders, the move has been met in Canada largely with ridicule.
Associated PressThe display followed Trump’s executive order directing U.S. federal agencies to call Lake Ontario “Lake America.” After months of tariffs, threats to make Canada the 51st U.S. state and personal attacks on its leaders, the reaction in Canada has mixed defiance with mockery.
PBS NewsHourNews Wrap: Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America In our news wrap Thursday, President Trump signed an order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America as part of his dispute with Canada, FAA officials are reportedly moving to fire two air traffic controllers who allegedly left work early on the night of a deadly crash at LaGuardia Airport and an ICE officer facing charges related to a shooting in Minneapolis was released from a Texas jail.
The HillSeneca Nation requests reversal on ‘Lake America’ executive order Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca called Friday for President Trump to rescind his order to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” citing a 225-year-old treaty between Native Americans and the U.S. government.  Seneca said in a statement that this name change, which President Trump authorized in a Thursday executive order, violated the terms of…
Washington PostOn Lake Ontario — er, America — sailors have no plans to change course The Trump-ordered name change was the talk of the docks on both shores of Lake Ontario. But neither American nor Canadian sailors seemed to be taking it too seriously.
RealClearPoliticsAn executive order to rename Lake Ontario is a bandage on a wounded ego, not the power move Trump seems to think it is. Read Full Article ⟶
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Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and to Dingell's office early on Friday morning.
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“Let’s just call it Lake Natalie, so we know you’ll start protecting our Great Lakes,” Dingell quipped on X.
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Fox News"Let’s just call it Lake Natalie so we know you’ll start protecting our Great Lakes," she wrote on X.
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That doesn’t explain the trade war itself, though. Unfortunately, when my colleague, noted Canadian resident Zack Beauchamp, went looking earlier this week, he couldn’t find an explanation either. As he writes, there’s absolutely no constituency for this fight — other than Trump’s own imperial desires as he keeps joking-but-maybe-not-joking about making Canada the 51st state.
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HuffPostThe conflict might boil down to Trump’s desire to make Canada the 51st state, despite Canada’s consistent rejection of the idea.
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01 The Guardian US Give it a few more months of the disastrous war in Iran and a bruised Trump may well make good on that threat: the man will do anything to distract from his failings.
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02 Associated Press Wearing a Team Canada soccer jersey, Ford unveiled the sign near Grimsby, Ontario, and posed for photographs. The 24-by-12-foot (7.3-by-3.6 meter) sign stands on 6-foot (1.8-meter) legs, putting its top about 18 feet (5.5 meters) above the ground — roughly two stories high. The message is repeated in French, one
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03 Washington Times Wearing a Team Canada soccer jersey, Ford unveiled the sign near Grimsby, Ontario, and posed for photographs. The 24-by-12-foot (7.3-by-3.6 meter) sign stands on 6-foot (1.8-meter) legs, putting its top about 18 feet (5.5 meters) above the ground - roughly two stories high. The message is repeated in French.
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04 Fox News He added that to the people of Seneca Nation, Lake America is not a "political pawn" but rather land that Indigenous people have lived on for thousands of years.
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05 Washington Examiner Seneca pointed to Lake Ontario’s indigenous roots, referencing a 1794 agreement then-President George Washington made with the Seneca Nation called the Treaty of Canandaigua. The treaty established peace between the United States and the Haudenosaunee Native American nations, of which the Seneca is a part. The Haudenosaunee nations surround Lake Ontario, in the area of New York and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
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06 The Daily Wire The Canadians objected to this in that girlishly adorable little petulant way they have, and so our president was forced to teach them a lesson by putting a 50% tariff on their major exports to our country, like hockey sticks and boredom. The Canadians — who really are cute when they’re mad — retaliated by continuing the negotiations in French so no one here could understand what they were saying.
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07 HuffPost The navigational service MapQuest reminded everyone of its existence Thursday when the company led a rebellion of sorts against President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America.
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