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A Canadian fan's sign at the FIBA Women's World Cup directly challenged President Donald Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America.
Sackets Harbor, located along the eastern shores of Lake Ontario, is home to a number of Canadian residents. A village of 1,400 people, it was a major military outpost and naval command center during the War of 1812, when the U.S. clashed with British and Canadian forces.
Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America has drawn sharp condemnation from Indigenous leaders, who say it erases over 400 years of Wendat Nation cultural heritage and identity.
Oswego's mayor said the name is "rooted in history, geography, and the shared identity of the communities that surround it.”
Trump unveiled the name change for Lake Ontario on Thursday, amid a trade and tariff war with Canada. Canadian officials have objected to and mocked the name change, noting that the lake doesn’t solely lie inside the United States.
The king of the manosphere gave a thumbs-down to President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America amid the United States’ trade dispute with Canada. Joe Rogan took a jab at Trump,
The app, a creation of the dot-com boom, is sticking with “historical, familiar names” for lakes and gulfs, unlike Google and Apple.