{"id":5937,"date":"2026-09-09T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/?p=5937"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:27:00","slug":"hillary-clintons-two-word-jab-at-trump-over-lake-ontario-renaming-instantly-backfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/?p=5937","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton\u2019s Two-Word Jab at Trump Over Lake Ontario Renaming Instantly Backfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jumped into the controversy surrounding President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to rename Lake Ontario \u201cLake America,\u201d responding with a remarkably brief message on X: \u201cIt\u2019s Lake Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump signed Executive Order 14422 on August 27, directing the Interior Department and U.S. Board on Geographic Names to change the lake\u2019s designation to \u201cLake America\u201d in federal records and government communications. The order applies to U.S. federal usage; it cannot require Canada or international organizations to adopt the new name.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ellipsis\" id=\"ellipsis-1935898942\">...<\/span><span class=\"rmwp-button-wrap\" id=\"rmwp-button-wrap-1935898942\" style=\"display: none;\"><button name=\"read more\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"rmwpButtonAction( '1935898942', 'READ MORE', 'READ LESS' )\">READ MORE<\/button><\/span><div class=\"rmwp-toggle \" id=\"rmwp-toggle-1935898942\" style=\"display: none\">               Clinton\u2019s three-word response quickly surpassed 3 million views. Because her X account does not permit direct replies, critics instead responded through reposts and separate posts. The Republican National Committee, Sen. Marsha Blackburn and several conservative commentators were among those who used the moment to reference Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential loss to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The renaming comes amid a much larger deterioration in relations between Washington and Ottawa. The United States and Canada have been exchanging tariffs following failed trade negotiations, turning what might otherwise have been a symbolic naming dispute into another flashpoint between the longtime allies.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian officials have rejected the new designation, while some American politicians have also criticized it. Nevertheless, U.S. federal agencies have been instructed to adopt \u201cLake America,\u201d and major mapping services have begun displaying the new designation for some American users.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton\u2019s short post therefore became much bigger than its three words. Rather than settling the naming argument, it provided another viral battleground in the continuing political and economic dispute surrounding Trump, Canada and one of North America\u2019s Great Lakes.                     <\/div><div class='rmwp-toggle-end'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jumped into the controversy surrounding President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to rename Lake Ontario \u201cLake America,\u201d responding with a remarkably brief message on X: \u201cIt\u2019s Lake Ontario.\u201d Trump signed Executive Order 14422 on August 27, directing the Interior Department and U.S. Board on Geographic Names to change the lake\u2019s designation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}