Trump renames Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ amid intensifying US-Canada trade dispute

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, a move that came amid a trade war with Canada. 

"The Lake of America was something I've been thinking about for a long time, actually. As you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico — we changed it — and now it's very routinely the Gulf of America," Trump said in the Oval Office.

The president said he has directed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the department to update...