#TRUMP RENAMES LAKE ONTARIO TO LAKE AMERICA On Tuesday, Trump announced that he wants to rename the lake, which lies on the US–Canada border , due to the failure of trade negotiations. In the video, the US President is seated at a desk in the White House Oval Office. Pointing at a paper map, he says he will make a "small change." "We're not going to call it Lake Ontario — we'll call it something else. We'll call it Lake America