(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump said he's giving "serious consideration" to renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America" amid trade tensions with Canada that could test a 1989 agreement on naming features the two countries share.
Trump made the comment Tuesday in a post on Truth Social, writing that the U.S. "is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don't expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer."
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