In the long human habit of naming the world to claim it, President Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America — a gesture now visible on Google Maps for American users, though invisible to Canadians and the wider world. The move arrived amid deepening trade tensions with Prime Minister Mark Carney, who had rejected American trade terms and answered with retaliatory tariffs. What the episode reveals is older than any map: that the power to name a thing and the power to possess it are not the same, and that borders — even digital ones — have a way of reminding us of th