“Ontario Premier Doug Ford ridiculed President Donald Trump’s order changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, while expressing optimism that Canada and the U.S. would eventually overcome their differences on trade and tariffs,” Bloomberg reports.

Said Ford: “It was like something out of Saturday Night Live, when he signed a document saying ‘Change to Lake America.’ No one’s going to call it Lake of America. It’s been Lake Ontario for hundreds of years. It’s going to continue to be Lake Ontario.”

“CIA Director John Ratcliffe proposed a trilateral meeting between President Trump, Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky during his covert trip to Moscow earlier this week in an effort to end the war,” Axios reports.

“Donald Trump and Canada continued a verbal duel on Saturday over the U.S. government’s administrative renaming of Lake Ontario, with the country erecting a giant sign saying ‘Lake Ontario. Now and Always’ – and the American president posting a video of him tearing down an avatar of that sign, erecting a replacement saying Lake America, and dancing to YMCA,” The Guardian reports.

“Rhetoric over the naming of Lake Ontario is the public face of an escalating trade dispute between the U.S. and its northern neighbor involving a 50% U.S. tariff on Canadian steel and retaliatory tariffs from Ottawa.”

Mediaite: Trump kicks down Lake Ontario sign and does YMCA dance in wild AI video ratcheting up feud with Canada.

“Google announced on Saturday that it had begun rolling out changes to how its maps display Lake Ontario’s name, after President Trump signed an executive order changing it to ‘Lake America’ amid a trade fight between the U.S. and Canada,” CBS News reports.