Trump signs executive order renaming Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ [SOUND]

# US president Donald Trump has escalated his trade war with Canada by signing an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America”. The lake borders Ontario, Canada, and New York. Last year, he signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, a move that was rejected by the Mexican government. Trump says the name change reflects the fact that the deepest parts of the lake’s waters and most of its volume are in US territory: