“What we see at this moment, and with [Trump’s] previous renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, is a unilateral naming by decree or angry whim with seemingly no public discussion or real government consideration of impacts and consequences. The cost at stake with this renaming Lake Ontario is the loss of yet another democratic process in the United States,”

Derek Alderman · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-28

Alderman criticized Trump's unilateral renaming by decree as a loss of democratic process.