Fact-check: “Trump can rename Lake Ontario 'Lake America'”
Verdict: Partly True (78% confidence)
Trump signed an executive order on August 27, 2026, directing the Interior Department and U.S. Board on Geographic Names to rename Lake Ontario 'Lake America' in all federal records and communications, invoking 43 U.S.C. §§ 364–364f — the same statutory authority used for the Gulf of Mexico rename. That authority is real for U.S. federal government usage, but the claim is only partly true because the order has no legal force over Canada (which shares the lake and has already refused to adopt th…
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