All the places the Trump administration has renamed in his second presidency, from the Gulf of Mexico to Lake Ontario

First, the Gulf of Mexico, now Lake Ontario — President Donald Trump has suggested an water could beryllium next.

The president signed an executive bid connected Thursday to rename Lake Ontario — 1 of the 5 Great Lakes, bordering some Canada and the US — to Lake America, telling reporters successful the Oval Office that he had been reasoning astir the alteration "for a agelong time."

"Maybe we'll person to alteration the sanction of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific," Trump said astir renaming different bodies of h2o for America. "Maybe we'll alteration them both."

Canadian officials person said they would not admit the lake's caller name, which applies only to US national use.

The move comes arsenic Trump's tariff-driven waste and acquisition war pinch Canada continues to escalate. In August, the US imposed caller 50% tariffs connected astir $20 cardinal successful Canadian equipment aft negotiations fell apart, prompting Canada to denote retaliatory tariffs of up to 50%.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded connected X, saying that Canadians would proceed to telephone the reservoir Lake Ontario, a sanction that dates backmost complete 400 years.

Lake Ontario is the latest among the galore sanction changes Trump has made aliases overseen during his 2nd non-consecutive term.

Besides renaming galore authorities programs and buildings aft Trump himself, here's a look astatine the different places the management has renamed — truthful far.

January 2025: Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico and Denali.

On the first time backmost successful the White House, Trump signed an executive bid titled "Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness."

It directed 2 actions: rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America," and reconstruct Alaska's Denali, the highest upland successful North America, to its erstwhile national name, Mount McKinley. President Barack Obama antecedently restored the mountain's Native Alaskan name, meaning "the precocious one" successful the Koyukon language, successful 2015.

Trump's executive bid acknowledged that "congressional action is required to found a renaming successful nationalist law," but called for national agencies to usage the caller names successful the interim.

Both Google and Apple person since updated their representation features to bespeak the sanction change. The Associated Press continued to mention to the assemblage of h2o arsenic the Gulf of Mexico, starring the White House to bar AP from immoderate property events.

February to June 2025: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth restored the names of 9 Army bases.

In 2023, the Biden management changed the names of Army bases named aft Confederate leaders, renaming them aft Medal of Honor recipients, subject leaders, and different warfare heroes, including women and group of color.

Hegseth reversed the changes successful a bid of orders successful 2025, restoring the names of Fort Walker, Fort Benning, Fort Pickett, Fort Lee, Fort Gordon, Fort Hood, Fort Polk, Fort Rucker, and Fort Bragg.

August 2026: Trump signed an executive bid renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America.

Canadians were calling for boycotts of US products and recreation earlier the latest executive order. Carney acknowledged successful his X consequence to Lake Ontario's sanction alteration that the US "is changing."

"Their waste and acquisition relations, their overseas policy, their nationalist monuments, their hydronyms," he wrote. "Canadian women and men besides cognize that things must beryllium called by their name, and this reservoir is called Lake Ontario — coming and forever."