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President Donald Trump has threatened to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America" as tensions between the US and Canada continue to spiral amid an escalating tariff war.
The 80-year-old president floated the name change on Truth Social on Tuesday (August 25) morning.
"The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer," he wrote.
"Thank you for your attention to this matter!" he added.
The statement comes at the end of a tumultuous week for relations between the neighboring countries.
Last weekend, the US imposed a 50 percent tariff on approximately $20 billion worth of Canadian imports after last-minute negotiations between Ottawa and Washington broke down.
The levies cover a wide range of Canadian products, including wine, hockey sticks, and honey.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney compared the move to armed conflict while speaking to reporters.
"You’re at war when you get attacked. We got attacked," Carney said, per The Independent.
Carney added that Canada would respond with "dollar for dollar" retaliatory tariffs on US goods beginning September 8.
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