Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America Joey Garrison USA TODAY WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing his administration to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America after threatening the action for days amid a rapidly escalating trade war with Canada. Trump's order, which he signed in the Oval Office on Aug. 27, instructs the Department of Interior and U.S. Board on Geographic Names to formalize the change within 30 days. As he signed the order, Trump compared the move to his action last year to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America . "If you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake, now all we need is an ocean," Trump said. "So maybe we'll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific." The demented asshole is insane, and the MAGA morons think it’s funny, cuz he’s ‘owning the Libs…..while he’s wrecking our credibility, our country and our ...