{"id":3039,"date":"2026-08-26T19:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:51:04","slug":"what-trumps-gulf-of-america-tells-us-about-lake-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3039","title":{"rendered":"What Trump\u2019s \u2018Gulf of America\u2019 Tells Us About \u2018Lake America\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump has <span><u>threatened<\/u><\/span> to <span><u>rename<\/u><\/span> Lake Ontario as \u201cLake America\u201d as the United States and Canada hurtle headlong into a <span><u>trade war<\/u><\/span>.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3037\">ICC President Says Her Credit Cards Were Shut Off Thanks to Trump\u2019s Sanctions<\/a><\/p><p>So, can Trump really do that?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, in short.<\/p><p>But as last year\u2019s Gulf of Mexico\/Gulf of America brouhaha indicates, when a U.S. president attempts to unilaterally rename a large body of water that touches multiple nations, internal and external drama ensues.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<span>Trending<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US Department of the Treasury\" class=\"wp-image-2969\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/48ba3e51a27a513915112940936f59ad-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/48ba3e51a27a513915112940936f59ad-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/48ba3e51a27a513915112940936f59ad-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/48ba3e51a27a513915112940936f59ad.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Billionaire\u2019s WSJ Op-Ed Criticizing Bessent Was Written With AI\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"burgum\" class=\"wp-image-2960\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4ed893ac0204a0c2030c3153bc5d7a05-768x513.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4ed893ac0204a0c2030c3153bc5d7a05-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4ed893ac0204a0c2030c3153bc5d7a05-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4ed893ac0204a0c2030c3153bc5d7a05.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      \u2018They Want Us All To Leave\u2019: Interior Reassigns Dozens of Senior Staff\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"U.S. Congress\" class=\"wp-image-3018\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c611311f4f4121db07612763bfd80f61-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c611311f4f4121db07612763bfd80f61-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c611311f4f4121db07612763bfd80f61-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c611311f4f4121db07612763bfd80f61.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      How Corporate PAC Money Gets to Democrats Who Swore It Off\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bobby Charles\" class=\"wp-image-3036\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8c14213697b52466bf4716dc48ef4e1a-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8c14213697b52466bf4716dc48ef4e1a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8c14213697b52466bf4716dc48ef4e1a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8c14213697b52466bf4716dc48ef4e1a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      GOP Governor Candidate Plans to Ask for ICE Agents at Polling Places\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>That was particularly evident from a tranche of government records NOTUS obtained last year <span><u>detailing<\/u><\/span> <span><u>federal<\/u><\/span> <span><u>government<\/u><\/span> <span><u>wrangling<\/u><\/span> and arguments over the gulf.<\/p><p>Here\u2019s what to know about Trump, Lake Ontario and nomenclatural considerations:<\/p><h2>How Would Trump Change Lake Ontario\u2019s Name?<\/h2><p>The U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a multi-agency federal body, is tasked with \u201cmaintaining uniform geographic name usage throughout the federal government.\u201d The U.S. Geological Survey, which is part of the <span><u>Interior Department<\/u><\/span>, serves as a lead agency for coordinating renaming requests. Traditionally, name-change requests are subject to a process of review and deliberation that could take months or years.<\/p><p>Trump upended geographic and geological naming conventions when he declared he\u2019d rename the Gulf of Mexico the \u201cGulf of America\u201d upon his second inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Matters moved quickly: Trump signed an <span><u>executive order<\/u><\/span> on Jan. 20, 2025, that mandated the \u201cGulf of America\u201d change. On Feb. 9, 2025, Trump <span><u>declared<\/u><\/span> \u201cGulf of America Day\u201d in the United States \u2014 and also suggested Canada should become the United States\u2019 51st state.<\/p><p>The \u201cGulf of America\u201d edict caused some internal tumult and logistical hiccups within federal agencies. But officials instituted a <span><u>de facto media blackout<\/u><\/span> over the process, little resistance emerged, and Trump ultimately got his way, particularly when the federal government\u2019s Geographic Names Information System made the official switch.<\/p><p>To change Lake Ontario\u2019s name, Trump would likely employ a similar executive order and bureaucratic process.<\/p><p>Congress could also pass a law codifying such a name change.<\/p><h2><b>Would Americans be Forced to Call It \u2018Lake America\u2019?<\/b><\/h2><p>Not necessarily, even if Trump tried to enforce naming doctrine. An applicable <span><u>legal ruling<\/u><\/span> came in April 2025, when a federal court ordered the White House to lift access restrictions on The Associated Press, which continued \u2014 and <span><u>continues<\/u><\/span> \u2014 to use \u201cGulf of Mexico\u201d in its news articles. (NOTUS also uses \u201cGulf of Mexico\u201d in general references.)<\/p><p>Local jurisdictions have also defied Trump. In Florida, for example, Longboat Key leaders <span><u>voted<\/u><\/span> to keep the town\u2019s \u201cGulf of Mexico Drive\u201d and not change signage to \u201cGulf of America Drive.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3033\">GOP Governor Candidate Plans to Ask for ICE Agents at Polling Places<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In New York, the lone U.S. state that touches Lake Ontario, there are thousands of governmental, commercial and private references to the lake \u2014 the world\u2019s 13th-largest by surface area. The word \u201cOntario\u201d is believed to come from \u201c<span><u>kanadario<\/u><\/span>,\u201d a word from the Iroquois, whose nations and territories historically spanned much of modern-day New York state and southern Ontario in Canada.<\/p><p>While some people and jurisdictions in New York might feel compelled or cajoled to make a \u201cLake America\u201d switch, many others may simply choose to ignore Trump\u2019s wishes and maintain their Lake Ontario status quo.<\/p><p>The \u201cGulf of America\u201d experience <span><u>also suggests<\/u><\/span> that companies producing widely used maps could come to different conclusions on a \u201cLake America.\u201d Google Maps, for one, lists \u201c<span><u>Gulf of America<\/u><\/span>\u201d for users in the United States but \u201cGulf of Mexico\u201d in Mexico and both names <span><u>side-by-side<\/u><\/span> elsewhere. National Geographic <span><u>map products<\/u><\/span> on sale to U.S. customers <span><u>still display<\/u><\/span> \u201cGulf of Mexico.\u201d<\/p><h2><b>How Would Foreign Nations Treat \u2018Lake America\u2019?<\/b><\/h2><p>With contempt or dismissiveness, if the past is prologue.<\/p><p>There\u2019s almost zero chance Canada, with hundreds of miles of Lake Ontario shoreline and a province of the same name, would recognize \u201cLake America\u201d in any formal fashion.<\/p><p>Other nations would also remain effectively free to call Lake Ontario whatever they wanted.<\/p><p>There\u2019s an entity <span><u>known<\/u><\/span> as the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names that \u201csupports the national and international standardization of geographical names.\u201d But the group has no power to standardize geographic names.<\/p><h2><b>What About Non-Lake Ontarios?<\/b><\/h2><p>Take <span><u>Ontario County<\/u><\/span> in New York. Because there\u2019s no federal-level mechanism for changing a county\u2019s name \u2014 such a change would be a state- and local-level affair \u2014 the largely rural area in the bucolic Finger Lakes region is almost certainly safe.<\/p><p>There\u2019s the city of Ontario, California, near Los Angeles, along with municipal Ontarios in <span><u>New York<\/u><\/span>, <span><u>Oregon<\/u><\/span>, <span><u>Ohio<\/u><\/span> and <span><u>Wisconsin<\/u><\/span>. Same deal as counties: American presidents have no jurisdiction over municipality names. It\u2019s also exceedingly rare and decidedly inconvenient for local officials to change a city or town name. Signs, schools, buildings, boulevards, parks and most any other place bearing the old moniker would eventually need to change along with it. Still, it\u2019s technically possible: In 1954, for example, Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk in Pennsylvania <span><u>combined<\/u><\/span> to become the borough of Jim Thorpe, named for the early-20th century athlete and Olympian.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3031\">Father of Sailor on Nightmare USS Lincoln Deployment Released From ICE Custody<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paths to success and pitfalls abound as the president threatens to rename another international body of water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump-white-house"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What Trump\u2019s \u2018Gulf of America\u2019 Tells Us About \u2018Lake America\u2019 - 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