Former President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he is giving serious consideration to renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America" as trade tensions with Canada escalate. Trump stated on the social media platform Truth Social that the potential name change reflects a diminishing business relationship with the province of Ontario.
"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. He concluded his statement with "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
The statement comes as the trade war between the United States and Canada deepens. The specific details of the trade disputes were not elaborated upon in Trump's announcement.