The verdict is in on Trump’s ‘Lake America’ and Canada trade war. It’s not good

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/02/politics/trump-lake-america-canada-polls

President Donald Trump has dropped another clunker in the laps of his fellow Republicans in the run-up to the 2026 midterm elections.

His new trade war with Canada and his related move to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” are the latest in a series of unpopular actions.

In fact, new polling suggests they’re even more unpopular than Trump’s previous tariffs and efforts to rename things.

It shows Americans oppose the president’s executive order to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” 63% to 14%, with the rest undecided.

That more than 4-to-1 margin is more lopsided than when Trump moved to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” last year. Back then, polls showed more than 7 in 10 Americans opposed it. But support was about twice as high, on average.