US President Donald Trump announced that he is renaming Lake Ontario -- a large body of water shared by the United States and Canada -- "Lake America." Trump signed an order in the White House in a move that comes amid a spiraling trade war between the world's largest economy and its northern neighbor.
Google redesignated Lake Ontario as "Lake America" on maps seen by US users after President Donald Trump announced he was renaming the body of water, with a Canadian official slamming the cross-border tensions as "absolutely backwards."
People in Canada will still see Lake Ontario, the Indigenous-rooted name used for the lake since the 17th century, on their devices and computers, the US-based tech giant said.
The shock nomenclatural spat erupted as the latest element of Trump's "America First" narrative, with longtime allies the United States and Canada ramping up a trade war that has seen Washington and Ottawa slap tit-for-tat tariffs on each other.
Apple's Maps app that comes installed on all iPhones makes no mention of "Lake America" on its maps.
