00:02Lake Ontario, one of the North American Great Lakes.
00:07It borders both the Canadian province of Ontario to the north and the US state of New York to the
00:13south.
00:14On Tuesday, President Donald Trump suggested he wanted to rename it Lake America, escalating the ongoing feud between the two
00:22countries.
00:23In a post on his own social media platform Truth Social, he said,
00:28we don't expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer.
00:32These Americans living near the lake reacted to the proposal.
00:36I think he should take care of things that matter the most to the country and quit being a baby.
00:44He's getting people to look at the name Lake Ontario, but I think he wants people to,
00:50he wants to open up the bigger discussion of what's going on with the negotiations.
00:56You know, is Canada not taking advantage of us? What's going on?
01:01Over the border, Canadians made their thoughts clear on Mr. Trump's comments.
01:06It's been like that for so long. So, like, why do we need to change it?
01:10It seems to work for Canada and I think probably works for the US too.
01:14It's meaningless. It's just more hyperbole and more of an irritant for the Canadian people.
01:24He's not doing anybody any favours, especially himself.
01:29It's the latest escalation in the ongoing trade war between the two countries,
01:34with billions of dollars worth of tariffs imposed by both sides.
01:38This is not the first time Donald Trump has tried to redraw the map.
01:43In May last year, Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
01:49And that's why Trump signed an executive order to make an idea of what we're working in.
01:49In May last year, Donald Trump killed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico being an eventually
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