Lake Ontario beats Lake America in Google searches across US
- Google search data shows residents in all 50 U.S. states continue searching for Lake Ontario over President Donald Trump‘s proposed name, Lake America, following his executive order.
- The executive action to rename the body of water came after trade negotiations between Washington and Ottawa collapsed, prompting Trump to impose 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods.
- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected the renaming effort, stating that Canada will not adopt the new terminology and emphasizing the historical roots of the 400-year-old name.
- Trump ordered the Department of the Interior to update the Geographic Names Information System within 30 days to reflect the federal name change.
- The initiative mirrors a similar executive order issued in January attempting to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which also failed to alter public search habits.
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