VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-09-01
“The Lake of America was something I've been thinking about for a long time, actually. As you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico — we changed it — and now it's very routinely the Gulf of America,”
Donald Trump · said 2026-08-27 · reported 2026-09-01
Trump said this in the Oval Office when signing an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America.
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