Google Makes Major Change To Their Maps After President Trump’s Latest Executive Order

Google Maps Officially Changes Lake Ontario to “Lake America” Following President Trump’s Executive Order

U.S. users will now see “Lake America” on Google Maps, while users in Canada will continue to see “Lake Ontario.” People outside the two countries will see both names, with… pic.twitter.com/Zy9Me7TrR5

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Google announced on Saturday that it had begun rolling out changes to how its maps display Lake Ontario's name, after President Trump signed an executive order changing it to "Lake America" amid a trade fight between the U.S. and Canada. pic.twitter.com/2JoxuzfSEj

— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 30, 2026

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Google has updated its Maps application, labeling Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the United States, following an executive order signed by President Trump last week amid an escalating trade war with Canada.

The decision of the tech giant reflects what it did when Mr. Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America last year.

The change has started to be rolled out, Google said in a blog post, adding that it was following its practice of using the name given by the U.S. Geographic Names Information System.

“People using Maps in the U.S. will see ‘Lake America,’ those in Canada will continue to see ‘Lake Ontario,’ and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names,” Google said in its statement.

Mr. Trump’s decision to rename the lake on Thursday was met with derision and shrugs in Canada and across the United States, and sparked a series of online memes and late-night jokes.

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How the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the US will appear on Google Maps pic.twitter.com/nFw80TwaqH

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Sunday said that President Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America” resembled “something out of ‘Saturday Night Live.’”

Ford slammed Trump’s trade war with Canada that placed a 50 percent tariff on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods in an interview with ABC News’s “This Week” host Martha Raddatz.

“I just don’t see the purpose. It’s absolutely backwards,” he said. “It was like something out of ‘Saturday Night Live’ when he signed a document saying ‘change to Lake America.’ No one’s going to call it Lake America. It’s been Lake Ontario for hundreds of years. It’s going to continue to be Lake Ontario.”

Ford called the tariffs and renaming “so, so disappointing, because I love the U.S. I love the American people. Canadians love the American people.”

“We differentiate between a great American people and the president,” he added

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford mocked President Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” calling it “like something out of Saturday Night Live.” pic.twitter.com/DSFzCQV2dN

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