Residents of a conservative New York town named after Lake Ontario are angry at President Trump's decision to rename the body of water Lake America.  

The rural town, which sits on the border of the US, was caught in the crossfire of the president's trade war with Canada after he ordered the name of their local lake to be changed on Thursday in an effort to make the 'Great Lakes Even Greater.'

The renaming of the lake has already been honored by Google Maps, but the move has received mixed feelings, even from some of Trump's own supporters.

And many of the 10,000 residents who live in the rural town of Ontario, feel the change is a slap in the face to the community's over-century-old history.

'I don't think the lake's name should be changed because it's history,' Dave Rupp, who runs the town's liquidation store and voted for Trump in 2024, told the Washington Post.

'And I don't like changing history.'

Cassandra Tylenda, who voted for Trump, also told the outlet that while she liked 'Lake Ontario better,' there was nothing she could do about it.

Serena Eaton, who lives near Ontario, said the president was using the name change to distract the public from the Epstein files and the war in Gaza.

'America doesn't just own the lake,' Eaton said. 'I'm not going to call it Lake America. But my town is really redneck. I'm sure a lot of people will just switch their brains off and tune out sensible reason.'

Trump's order does not compel Canada or any international organization to adopt the new name, and Canadian officials have spoken out against the move.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has clashed with Trump on a number of occasions, decried the move, rejecting the name change from Lake Ontario and pointing to the name's Indigenous roots from a Wendat word meaning 'the lake is beautiful, the lake is great.'

Ontario Premier Doug Ford erected a giant 'Lake Ontario' sign on his side of America's northern border in a show of protest over Trump's move, posting a message that read: 'Lake Ontario. Now and Always.'

On the hand, Serafino Rosso, a 41-year-old resident of Ontario, told the Post that she not only liked changing the lake's name but also the name of the town.

'I would like it if they changed the name here to the Town of America: The Town of America on the Lake of America,' Rosso said. 'It makes me feel really patriotic. It felt Canadian before.'

However, an overwhelming number of comments across social media were either opposed to the name change or claimed they would continue calling it Lake Ontario.

Google Maps made the switch from Lake Ontario's name to Lake America.

In a statement, Google noted that the move 'does not have any impact on Canadian naming conventions or how the rest of the world refers to the lake.'

'Those in Canada will continue to see 'Lake Ontario' on Google Maps, and those outside the US and Canada will see both names,' the tech giant added.

The company took a similar approach to Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the 'Gulf of America' earlier in his second term.

Trump also celebrated the name change with a post featuring an AI video of himself dancing next to a 'Lake America' sign.

Lake Ontario forms part of the international boundary between New York State and the Canadian province of Ontario.

It has been jointly managed under the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty for more than a century.

But when he signed the executive order on Thursday, Trump said he had contemplated the name change for a 'long time.'

He then suggested he may not be finished tinkering with the map, joking that the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean could eventually find itself in his sights.

'Actually, as you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico and we changed it, and now it's very routinely the Gulf of America,' Trump said last week.

'So, if you think about it, we have a Gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean. So, maybe we'll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific.'