Democrat jabs Trump over Lake Ontario threat: 'Let’s just call it Lake Natalie'

Published: 2026-08-26

Democrat jabs Trump over Lake Ontario threat: 'Let’s just call it Lake Natalie'
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) on Tuesday took a jab at President Trump over his threat to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America amid his trade war with Canada, saying the U.S. should "just call it Lake Natalie" after White House executive assistant Natalie Harp. Dingell shared on the social platform X a screenshot of Trump's threat written on Truth Social. The president said that the U.S. was "giving serious consideration" to changing the name of one of the Great Lakes. "Let’s just call it Lake Natalie so we know you’ll start protecting our Great Lakes," she wrote. The president's threat mirrors his executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Other locations in the U.S. share the Canadian province's name, including Washington, D.C.'s own Ontario Road in the Reed-Cooke neighborhood and the Southern California city and transportation hub located in San Bernardino County. Democrats, beginning with Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), have taken digs at Harp after she boarded an Air Force jet with Trump upon leaving the NATO summit in Turkey last month. The president said he was boarding the older Air Force One instead of his Qatari-gifted jet, leaving some Cabinet members aboard the old plane while he, Harp and other White House staffers flew off on the third plane. Ossoff mocked the president and Harp during a rally with supporters earlier this month. He said that as president, Trump only "wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defense…

Originally sourced from The Hill

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