Users searching Google Maps in the US are now seeing "Lake America" in place of Lake Ontario after President Trump signed an executive order renaming the Great Lake “effectively immediately" earlier this week. The bizarre move comes as Trump and Canada continue to engage in an escalating trade war.

Google implemented the name change on Saturday, as the Hill reports. In a statement, the company cited its reliance on official government sources like the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) as the impetus for making the update.

Notably, Canadian Google users will still see Lake Ontario on their searches. International users, by contrast, will now see the Great Lake listed by both names.

The tech giant's decision to go with "Lake America" mirrors its choice to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" for US users in 2025. That move was in turn made after Trump signed an executive order to the same effect while feuding with the Mexican government. The Mexican government would go on to file suit against Google over the matter.

Lake Ontario's new mantle arrives as the Trump administration and Canada find themselves in a trade battle that's led both sides to levy punitive tariffs on numerous products. On Sunday, the Hill further reported that Ontario Premier Doug Ford compared the name change to "something out of Saturday Night Live" during an interview with Martha Raddatz of ABC News.

"No one’s going to call it Lake America,” Ford added during the broadcast. “It’s been Lake Ontario for hundreds of years. It’s going to continue to be Lake Ontario.”

That's also the wish of Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca. As SFist noted yesterday, President Seneca is demanding that Trump rescind his order, declaring it violates the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua.

"The President cannot assert ownership over our culture or erase it through irresponsible political action,” Seneca said in a statement published by the Hill.

In a post made Thursday to the social media platform X, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shared his own distaste for the decision by means of a history lesson.

"The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io," Carney wrote, "which, appropriately, means 'the lake is beautiful, the lake is big.' The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America."

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Top image: A map labeling Lake Ontario as "Lake America" is displayed as U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on August 27, 2026 in Washington, DC.