2026-08-28T09:00:29.131Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/politics/trump-lake-america-unpopular
越来越多迹象显示，唐纳德·特朗普总统正试图在2026年中期选举前推出不受欢迎的举措。
但他最新的举动可能创下了新纪录。
特朗普于周四签署行政命令，将安大略湖更名为“美国湖”。此举起因是加拿大拒绝在他近期挑起的贸易战中妥协。
目前尚无针对这一具体举措的民调数据，但几乎可以肯定，这将是一场彻底的政治败笔。
尽管此举不太可能让美国人过度愤怒，但它很可能进一步强化外界长期以来的一种看法：特朗普更关注琐碎小事，而非民众真正关心的降低物价等议题。
这一举措让人想起特朗普去年重返总统岗位首日最引人注目的（可以说）举动——当时他签署行政令，将墨西哥湾更名为“美国湾”。
但当时该提议反响极差。
当周的益普索民调显示，70%的美国人反对这项更名提议，仅25%支持。约8成无党派人士和45%的共和党人都持反对态度。强烈反对的美国人比例（46%）是强烈支持者（10%）的四倍多。
稍晚进行的马凯特法学院民调结果类似——71%的美国人反对更名，仅29%支持。
两项民调都测试了特朗普的多项早期举措或威胁性行动。值得注意的是，在马凯特民调测试的八项内容中，“美国湾”更名是最不受欢迎的；在益普索民调测试的15项内容中，它则排名第二不受欢迎。
事实上，在两项民调中，它的不受欢迎程度甚至超过了特朗普对2021年1月6日事件参与者的赦免——这或许是特朗普早期最具争议的标志性举措。
自那以后，美国人对特朗普热衷于更名——包括以自己名字命名——的做法看法一直很差。
根据上月CNN的民调，在特朗普亲自挑选的亲信董事会试图将肯尼迪艺术中心以特朗普命名后，有2比1的多数美国人认为，他对这类公共机构进行改动的行为“太过分了”。皮尤研究中心上月的民调显示，仅有9%的美国人认为在特朗普任内以他的名字命名事物是恰当的，但他的政府仍在尝试这么做——据CNN上周报道，其中包括可能将一艘航空母舰上原本计划纪念一位黑人战争英雄的名字替换为特朗普的名字。
有理由相信，“美国湖”举措的反响会比“美国湾”更名更糟。
主要原因在于，美国人对加拿大的好感度高于墨西哥。尽管美国民众中存在打击墨西哥的群体，尤其是考虑到美墨边境数十年的非法移民问题，但近期民调显示，加拿大并未引发类似的负面情绪。
事实上，特朗普在第二任期初期对加拿大和墨西哥都征收关税时，针对加拿大的关税反而略不受欢迎，超过6成美国人反对。
（当然，这并未阻止特朗普再次对加拿大挑起贸易战。）
美国人还曾反对特朗普提出的将加拿大变为美国第51个州的提议。去年马凯特的民调显示，75%的美国人反对这一想法。
另一个主要问题是时过境迁。这类哗众取宠的举动在特朗普任期初期声望较高时或许还显得有点讨喜，但现在它们只会进一步凸显，特朗普不仅沉迷于琐事，而且民众完全不想要这些举动。
长期民调显示，约四分之三的美国人认为特朗普忽视了最重要的议题，尤其是降低物价。但他却在对伊朗开战（这会推高汽油价格），并对加拿大挑起贸易战（这也可能推高物价）。
如今他又旧事重提，推出一项美国人在他首次尝试时就认为相当愚蠢的举措。而这次的提议甚至更荒谬，因为安大略湖甚至并非以加拿大的省份命名（它实际上早在200年前的17世纪就已得名）。
就连一些共和党人也表示反对：威斯康星州州长共和党候选人、众议员汤姆·蒂芙尼周四表示，湖名不应更改。
特朗普周四在椭圆形办公室开玩笑称，他可能不会止步于为水体更名。
“我们有一个海湾，一个湖泊。现在我们只需要一片海洋，”他说，“所以也许我们得把大西洋和/或太平洋也改个名字。或许两个都改。”
你可以说他在炒冷饭。但这其实是在炒冷剩饭——而且是最失败的那种。
Trump’s ‘Lake America’ move revives one of his biggest political flops
2026-08-28T09:00:29.131Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/politics/trump-lake-america-unpopular
It increasingly feels as though President Donald Trump is trying to do unpopular things ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
But he might have outdone himself with his latest move.
Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” He did so after Canada declined to capitulate in the trade war he recently launched.
While there’s not yet polling on this specific move, it’s difficult to believe it will be anything but a complete political dud.
And while it’s unlikely to exercise Americans too much, it will likely feed into longstanding perceptions that Trump is more focused on trivial matters than the things they actually want, like lowering prices.
The move recalls one of Trump’s splashiest (so to speak) moves on his first day back in office last year, when he signed an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”
But that went over like a lead balloon.
An Ipsos poll that week showed Americans opposed the renaming 70%-25%. About 8 in 10 independents opposed it, as did 45% of Republicans. More than four times as many Americans strongly opposed it (46%) as strongly supported it (10%).
A slightly later Marquette Law School poll showed similar— Americans opposed the renaming 71%-29%.
Both polls tested a number of early Trump moves or threatened actions. Remarkably, the “Gulf of America” was the most unpopular among eight things tested in the Marquette poll, and it was the second most unpopular among 15 tested in the Ipsos poll.
In both polls, in fact, it was more unpopular than even Trump’s pardons of January 6, 2021, defendants — perhaps the prototypical controversial early Trump move.
And since then, Americans have taken a pretty dim view of Trump’s penchant for renaming things — including after himself.
After his handpicked board of loyalists tried to rename the Kennedy Center after Trump, Americans said by a 2-to-1 margin that he had “gone too far” in making changes to institutions like it, according to CNN polling from last month. Just 9% of Americans in a Pew Research Center poll said it was appropriate to name things after Trump while he’s still president, yet his administration keeps trying to do just that — including, CNN reported last week, by potentially substituting Trump’s name for a Black war hero’s that was set to be on an aircraft carrier.
And there’s reason to believe that the “Lake America” move will play even worse than the “Gulf of America” did.
The main reason is that Americans tend to be more sympathetic to Canada than Mexico. While there’s a constituency for cracking down on Mexico, especially given decades of illegal immigration over the US-Mexico border, Canada doesn’t engender such negative feelings, recent polling suggests.
Indeed, when Trump launched tariffs against both Canada and Mexico early in his second term, the Canada ones were narrowly more unpopular, with more than 6 in 10 Americans opposing them.
(This, of course, hasn’t stopped Trump from launching another trade war with Canada.)
Americans also balked at Trump’s proposal to make Canada the 51st state. Marquette polling last year showed 75% of Americans opposed that.
The other main problem is the passage of time. While these kinds of stunts might have felt a little cuter when Trump was riding higher early in his term, they now risk reinforcing how preoccupied he is with not just trifles, but things that Americans decidedly do not want.
Polls have long shown around three-quarters of Americans think Trump is neglecting the most important issues, especially lowering prices. Instead, he’s waging war against Iran (which raises gas prices) and launching a trade war with Canada (which also could raise prices).
Now he’s casting a spotlight on the latter with a move that Americans thought was pretty stupid when he did it the first time. And it’s arguably even sillier than that was, given Lake Ontario wasn’t even named after the Canadian province. (It was actually named 200 years earlier, in the 17th Century.)
Even some Republicans are balking, with the GOP nominee for Wisconsin governor, Rep. Tom Tiffany, saying Thursday that the name should stay the same.
Trump joked in the Oval Office Thursday that he might not be done renaming bodies of water.
“We have a gulf. We have a lake. Now all we need is an ocean,” he said. “So maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both.”
You could say he’s playing the hits. But it’s really playing the flops.
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