Trump's latest Canada trade war threat: renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America
"The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America," Trump said on Truth Social on Tuesday.
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- President Donald Trump says he's considering renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America.
- The threat comes amid rising trade tensions between the US and Canada in recent days.
- Lake Ontario straddles the US-Canada border, with Canada's biggest city, Toronto, on its northern shore.
What's in a name? Quite a lot when it comes to a trade war.
President Donald Trump launched a fresh escalation in the growing trade fight between the US and Canada on Tuesday by threatening to rename one of the Great Lakes.
"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 said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday morning.
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