{"id":77971,"date":"2026-08-27T13:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/trump-signs-executive-order-to-rename-lake-ontario-as-lake-america\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:57:03","slug":"trump-signs-executive-order-to-rename-lake-ontario-as-lake-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/trump-signs-executive-order-to-rename-lake-ontario-as-lake-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Symbolic move to rename lake bordering New York and Canada comes amid escalating trade war with northern neighbor<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/27\/cia-moscow-nato-ratcliffe-rutte-colby-trump-paxton-voting-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario, making it Lake America.<\/p>\n<p>The largely symbolic move comes amid an escalating trade war with Canada.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/27\/trump-renames-lake-ontario-america\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symbolic move to rename lake bordering New York and Canada comes amid escalating trade war with northern neighbor US politics live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario, making it Lake America. The largely symbolic move comes amid an escalating trade war with &#8230; <a title=\"Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/trump-signs-executive-order-to-rename-lake-ontario-as-lake-america\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}