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Jewish News 24 · Aug 29, 2026

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Map company MapQuest says it won’t change the name of Lake Ontario after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to rename the large body of water to “Lake America” amid ongoing trade tensions. “We’re not changing it,” MapQuest wrote in a post on social media, displaying a map of the lake bearing the familiar “Lake Ontario” moniker. In a followup post, the American mapping company jokingly invited people who want to can change the lake’s name to use an online generator, giving the example “Lake Are We Doing This Again?”

Map company MapQuest says it won’t change the name of Lake Ontario after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to rename the large body of water to “Lake America” amid ongoing trade tensions. “We’re not changing it,” MapQuest wrote in a post on social media, displaying a map of the lake bearing the familiar “Lake Ontario” moniker. In a followup post, the American mapping company jokingly invited people who want to can change the lake’s name to use an online generator, giving the example “Lake Are We Doing This Again?”

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