President Donald Trump crossed out Lake Ontario on a map and wrote in “Lake America” for a TikTok video that could be one of his more juvenile stunts in the White House.
“So this is Lake Ontario, in Canada and in the United States,” Trump said as he held up a map. “But we’re gonna make a little change. We’re gonna call it something different than Lake Ontario. We’re gonna call it Lake America. And all it takes is a good pen and some intelligence.”
Trump crossed out Lake Ontario and scribbled in “Lake America.”
“So Lake Ontario, that’s gone,” he said. “Lake America. So now we have a lake, and now we have a gulf, because we have the Gulf of America. Now we have Lake America, without the ‘of.’ Thank you very much, everybody. Enjoy Lake America.”
On the first day of his second term, Trump signed an executive order in an attempt to rechristen the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
