00:00And finally, I guess the purpose of this, more than anything else, is we're going to be changing the name
00:05of Lake Ontario, effective immediately, to Lake America.
00:12That's going to take place right now as I sign the order. Do you have anything to say about it,
00:17Ben?
00:17Yes, sir. So this is a straightforward but important executive order.
00:21It directs Secretary Burgum and the Department of the Interior to update the Geographic Names Information Service to reflect that
00:29the lake once known as Lake Ontario will, from this day forward, be known as Lake America.
00:35This is a lake that has most of its volume in the United States. The deepest parts of the lake
00:39sit in the United States territory.
00:41So this will reflect that this is an American lake.
00:47Okay.
01:10Thank you very much.
01:13And we filed all the necessary papers, documents, everything else.
01:17We've notified all of the various people that we have to notify.
01:21So we've done everything that you have to do.
01:24And this is official, effective immediately.
01:28Do you have any questions?
01:29Anybody?
01:29Mr. President, sir.
01:31Mr. President, sir.
01:33That video you put up yesterday, you crossing out Lake Ontario and riding Lake America, it's been seen by about
01:3830 million people, maybe more, across all the social media platforms.
01:42What message are you sending to Canada with this move today?
01:45And why was this such an important thing for you to do?
01:47Well, it's an interesting question.
01:48No message.
01:50As you know, Canada's been ripping us off for a long time on trade, very sadly.
01:55Even the military.
01:56You know, we defend Canada for nothing.
01:58We don't get anything.
01:59They don't pay us to defend Canada, but we defend Canada.
02:02And they understand that.
02:03As an example, we bought icebreakers.
02:06They'd like to use them.
02:07We have 11 brand new icebreakers coming in.
02:10They'd like to use the icebreakers.
02:11They don't pay for anything.
02:13And they want to be treated like a state, but they're not a state.
02:17But they want to be treated like they're a state.
02:19And so we just can't do that anymore.
02:21We lose, on average, over the last 15 years, $60 billion a year carrying Canada.
02:27So we just can't do it anymore.
02:28We love the people of Canada.
02:30I don't think their representatives do an appropriate job.
02:34Maybe they'll change.
02:34I really don't know.
02:36It doesn't make much difference.
02:37But we can't let the whole Canadian thing, it's been going on for decades, and it has
02:45to come to a stop.
02:46So we're going to be doing tariffs on their cars that are coming in at a substantial level
02:51because we want to make the cars here.
02:53We don't want, you know, they can make their own cars if they want, and they can continue
02:59to make their cars for Canada.
03:00But we don't want to make, we don't want them to make cars for the United States of America.
03:06It's very simple.
03:07Likewise, many other products.
03:08So the lake change, the Lake of America, was something I've been thinking about for a
03:14long time, actually.
03:16As you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico, we changed it, and now it's very
03:23routinely the Gulf of America.
03:26So if you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake.
03:31Now all we need is an ocean.
03:33So maybe we'll have to change the name of the Atlantic and or the Pacific.
03:36Maybe we'll change them both.
03:39Why are you so focused on doing things like this towards America's allies instead of doing
03:46things that target adversaries?
03:47You know, the Canadian officials have treated us very badly.
03:51They're nasty people.
03:52They charge our farmers 400% tariffs.
03:55They've been doing it for a long time.
03:57And I had them figured out in my first term, and I did some pretty strong things and had
04:02it getting pretty good.
04:03And then the election was rigged, and now I'm coming back and doing it the way and finishing
04:08the job.
04:09But they treat us very badly.
04:11Canada treats us very badly.
04:12I would say that of all countries, as you know, we have President Xi coming in a couple
04:16of weeks.
04:17We have a lot of, we deal with a lot of people.
04:19People oftentimes, they'll ask me, who's the worst to deal with on trade?
04:25And I said, that's easy.
04:26Canada.
04:27They are the worst to trade.
04:29And they feel entitled.
04:30And just, we can't have that.
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