The President of the United States, Donald Trump, suggested that the state of New Mexico, located in the southwest of the country, should change its name to "New America." The suggestion was made days after Trump signed a decree to change the name of Lake Ontario, which borders the United States and Canada, to "Lake America."
Trump published a photograph of the outline of the state of New Mexico with the new name on the Truth Social platform. This is not the first time the President has suggested changes to geographic names, demonstrating a pattern of renaming places in the USA.
Lake Ontario is one of the Great Lakes of North America, serving as a natural border between the United States and Canada. The name change to "Lake America" represents one of Trump's various initiatives related to changing geographic designations.
The suggestion to rename New Mexico comes as part of a series of actions by the American President aimed at changing names of bodies of water and territories, in an effort to replace names he considers to be non-American.
