MapQuest Says “We're Not Changing It” After Trump's Lake Ontario Renaming Order

Описание: MapQuest has become part of the growing debate surrounding Donald Trump's reported executive order to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.”

The online mapping company posted an image of Lake Ontario on X with a simple response: “We're not changing it.” The post quickly gained widespread attention and reportedly received more than 70,000 likes.

Eric Trump also joined the conversation with a humorous reply, while MapQuest continued the online discussion by introducing a tool that allows users to generate custom map screenshots with names of their choosing.

The reported exchange is not the first time MapQuest has responded to a Trump-related geographic renaming. The company previously reacted to the January 2025 decision involving the Gulf of Mexico and the name “Gulf of America.”

An executive order can direct federal agencies on how to use official terminology, but private companies are not automatically required to adopt the same names. Major mapping platforms such as Google and Apple can make their own decisions regarding geographic labels.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has also indicated that Canada will continue to refer to the lake as Lake Ontario.

The naming dispute comes during a period of broader trade and diplomatic tensions between the United States and Canada, turning a debate over a geographic name into another major topic of discussion online.