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Since U.S. President Donald Trump insists that Lake Ontario is now renamed Lake America , a Sault Ste. Marie lawyer suggests renaming a lake in Northern Ontario that bears the American leader’s namesake.

In a viral post on Facebook , Lawyer Jeff Broadbent of Broadbent Law offered a number of humourous options for what to name Trump Lake following Trump’s Oval Office announcement.

“Trump issued a meaningless order renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America,” said the post.

“In Northern Ontario we have what is currently named Trump Lake. We think it should be renamed and invite suggestions,” the post continued. “For instance, we like ‘Little Dictator Lake’, ‘Crooked Lake’, ‘Felon Lake’, ‘Ego Lake’, or ‘Grifter Lake’ amongst others. What are your suggestions?”

Lawyer calls renaming ‘offensive’ and ‘meaningless’

In an interview with Soo Today , Broadbent said the funny post was the brainchild of “me and our team.”

“These are difficult times,” said Broadbent. “Like most people, I find myself getting worked into a knot about the stress Trump is causing.”

“It’s offensive and it’s meaningless. He has no authority to change the name of the lake. We can choose to react as he wants or we can embrace it and laugh at it for what it is.”

Broadbent added it’s “healthier to find the humour in it.”

Trump Lake is a small body of water located north of the township of Chapleau in northeastern Ontario. Broadbent said the water isn’t great for fishing, so it’s true to its name.

While the viral post is meant to be funny, he said the world still needs to take Trump seriously.

“I think (Prime Minister Mark) Carney is right that our world has changed. It’s very clear to me that Trump admires dictators,” Broadbent told the outlet. “I think we have to be mindful of that. We need to laugh a bit but take this dangerous person seriously.”

On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” seemingly a childish response to Ontario Premier Doug Ford calling out the president after Canada shut down trade talks with the U.S.

Carney has dismissed Trump’s effort to change the name.

“The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means ‘the lake is beautiful, the lake is big,'” said Carney, who noted the lake’s name is over 400 years old, which predates both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

“We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario — then, now and always,” he added.

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