Amid an ongoing trade war with Canada, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” despite the fact that a majority of its surface area resides within Canadian territory. Trump’s executive order did not discuss the breakdown of trade negotiations. Instead, the order, titled “Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming…

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    No, Trump signs executive order CLAIMING to rename Lake Ontario, but not actually doing it, because no one with more than two brain cells will ever call it what Trump wants people to call it.

    It IS Lake Ontario.

    It WAS Lake Ontario.

    And it will ALWAYS be Lake Ontario.