The US president signed an executive order in the Oval Office while sitting beside an enlarged map of the lake with the words “Lake America” stamped over it in red ink.

Such a change would be reminiscent of Trump’s unilateral action last year to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Trump threatened the renaming earlier this week amid a deepening trade war with Canada.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America as relations with Canada deteriorate.