Renaming Reality: Trump's Bid to Rewrite the Map In a move that defies both geography and diplomacy, Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing federal agencies to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America.
This attempt by the US President to alter reality is less about asserting American exceptionalism than it is about demonstrating his own brand of narcissistic geopolitics.
Trump's actions are reminiscent of his earlier exercise in name changing, when he renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" on the first day of his second term.