Key Facts

• President Trump signed the executive order on a Thursday.
• The order directs the federal government to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America.
• The move comes amid a growing trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada.
• President Trump criticized Canada for benefiting from U.S. military defense without paying.
• Canada and the U.S. are both NATO members with mutual defense agreements.
• An official said most of the lake’s water and its deepest point are within U.S. territory.
• On the first day of his second term, Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
• Trump hinted he might rename the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans next.