Trump said he is considering changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” amid the ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada. Trump made the comment in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday 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,” Trump wrote. “Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
The U.S. president’s post comes less than 24 hours after he threatened to tack on more tariffs in the New Year, prompting Premier Doug Ford to tell him to kiss his ass. In a post on Monday, Trump vowed to increase tariffs to 50% on all Canadian cars, trucks, automotive parts, and steel on New Year’s Day.
Confronted with the news during a radio interview on Monday morning, Ontario Premier Doug Ford responded, “He can kiss my ass as far as I’m concerned.” Trump proceeded to launch a personal attack against Ford, referring to him as “the less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother of the late, great, Rob Ford.”
Speaking at a news conference in Hamilton later in the day, Ford continued to lash out at Trump, calling him a “loser,” “a bully,” and the “king of bankruptcies.” “We’re going to fight with everything we have and, you know something, I have more courage, more brains in my baby toe than he has in his whole body,” Ford said of Trump.
Some are advising Ford to redraw our maps.
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