{"id":667399,"date":"2026-09-12T16:59:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=667399"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:59:47","slug":"gop-lawmaker-to-petition-trump-to-change-name-of-another-major-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=667399","title":{"rendered":"GOP lawmaker to petition Trump to change name of another major lake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump may be changing the name of another lake if one lawmaker has his way.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania state Rep. David Maloney is urging the president to change the name of Lake Erie to \u201cLake Pennsylvania,\u201d as it is the state\u2019s \u201conly Great Lake.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Pennsylvania\u2019s only Great Lake. Its modern economy and identity are increasingly tied to the boaters, anglers, families and tourists who come to enjoy it,\u201d he said in a statement on the proposal. \u201cOhio has plenty of shoreline. New York already has two Great Lakes. Canada has four others.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPennsylvania has one. Let\u2019s call it Lake Pennsylvania!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Maloney Says It\u2019s Time for Lake Pennsylvania!
\nHARRISBURG \u2013 Rep. David Maloney (R-Berks) says Pennsylvania has only one Great Lake and maybe it is time we put our name on it.
\nMaloney is preparing a resolution urging the President of the United States, Congress, and the United\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 David M Maloney (@davidmaloneypa) September 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This comes after Trump renamed the Gulf of America and more recently signed an executive order that would rename Lake Ontario to \u201cLake America\u201d amid the trade war with Canada. Our neighbor to the north has rejected the attempt to rebrand the lake, claiming that they will only recognize the body of water as Lake Ontario.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe 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 \u2014 then, now and always,\u201d said Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.<\/p>\n

Trump also triggered Democrat anger<\/a> by sharing a cheeky map that renamed New Mexico to \u201cNew America.\u201d BizPac Review previously reported the backlash, including a strong rebuke from the state\u2019s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Mexico\u2019s name isn\u2019t up for debate \u2014 it\u2019s been ours since before the United States existed. You know what is up for debate? Who\u2019s showing up for working families,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWhile the President tries to distract Americans from his disastrous war in Iran, gas prices keep soaring. Americans are also spending more at the grocery store, losing access to health care and wondering if they\u2019ll ever be able to afford a home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder Democratic leadership here in New Mexico, we\u2019re providing families with free childcare and college, protecting access to health care and investing in housing. While the White House wastes time coloring on maps, Nuevo M\u00e9xico is busy doing the work,\u201d Grisham boasted.<\/p>\n

Democratic Congressman Gabe Vasquez was also not a fan of the idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t get to erase New Mexico. Not our name. Not our history. Not our culture.\u2028The President may want to call us \u2018New America,\u2019 but we know who we are. Greg Cunningham has pledged himself to Trump\u2019s agenda but New Mexico has an opportunity to elect someone who represents us\u2014real New Mexicans\u2013 not the sellouts like Cunningham,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump may be changing the name of another lake if one lawmaker has his way. Pennsylvania state Rep. David Maloney is urging the president to change the name of Lake Erie to \u201cLake Pennsylvania,\u201d as it is the state\u2019s \u201conly Great Lake.\u201d \u201cThis is Pennsylvania\u2019s only Great Lake. Its modern economy and identity… Continue reading GOP lawmaker to petition Trump to change name of another major lake<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":667400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/667400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}