Google Calls It ‘Lake America,’ Apple Pretends Lake Ontario Is Real

KEY POINTS

•President Trump issued an executive order on August 27 to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America.'
•Google Maps updated this change for U.S. users citing official government sources, while Apple Maps retained the original name.
•MapQuest refused to change the name, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford mocked the order as a 'Saturday Night Live' joke.

In a plot twist Funhouse Mirror detours would envy, President Trump’s August 27 executive order slapped a new name on Lake Ontario, rechristening it 'Lake America.' Google Maps cheerfully updated mobile and desktop maps to honor U.S. Geographic Names Information System's official change, flipping the lake’s identity stateside while leaving foreigners stuck with 'Lake Ontario (Lake America).' Apple Maps, sipping invisible coffee and ignoring the order, stubbornly sticks to the traditional name. Meanwhile, MapQuest, rocking its decade-older street cred, refuses to play, tweeting, 'Name it whatever you want at your leisure.' Quippy Ontario Premier Doug Ford called it a 'Saturday Night Live' skit nobody laughed at, while Democrats cook up legislation to ditch Trump’s cartographic vanity project. This follows Trump’s prior aquatic rebrand when Gulf of Mexico was rebranded Gulf of America, leading Mexico to threaten lawsuits and collective eye-rolls.