Michelle L. Price and Will Weissert reporting for AP News:

President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he escalates his trade war with Canada.

The Republican president signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to update the lake’s name in the U.S. geographic naming service. Trump cannot force Canada to follow along, however.

Donald Trump is a small, petty man, capable only of truculent displays of impotence. No one of any consequence will ever call it “Lake America”; anyone who does reveals themself to be a toadying brown-noser. Which makes me wonder: which will capitulate first, Google, Apple, or Fox “News”?

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Huron Indigenous people’s word “oniatarí:io,” which means “lake of shining waters.” The province of Ontario, founded in 1867, took its name from the lake.

The mnemonic for the Great Lakes is HOMES: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior. Trump’s attempted adulteration would make it SHAME.

How apropos.