U.S. President Donald Trump took a few swings at Canada during a spate of AI-generated posts to his Truth Social platform on Sunday afternoon, including a complaint about the value of the Canadian dollar.
“Canada’s (currency) Dollar imbalance with the U.S. is unacceptable,” he wrote in the morning. “It has been that way for years – but no longer!”
Trump didn’t elaborate.
The Canadian dollar trades for about 72 U.S. cents, making their dollar CA$1.38, according to the Bank of Canada.
The U.S. is set to be hit with Canada’s retaliatory tariffs Tuesday, adding to the tension of an already complicated and costly trade war.
Early Sunday afternoon, after sharing AI-generated images of himself with George Washington — one in the Oval Office with this cabinet, another of the pair astride horses — the president posted another image of himself writing America over Ontario on a map of the suddenly disputed lake.
In his salvo against Canada 10 days ago, Trump ordered the U.S. Geographic Names Information System to change the hydronym, after which Google Maps said it would make the change for users in the U.S. Apple followed suit last week.
On Friday, Trump said Bing Maps, a Microsoft product, has also made the change.
“People, especially Patriots from the United States of America, love the name change of Lake Ontario to Lake America,” he wrote. “The support has been overwhelming, including affirmation from Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Microsoft’s Bing Maps.”
Trump claimed business on the U.S. side of the border has been “booming” since the change.
National Post has contacted Microsoft for confirmation and comment.
Amid his flood of posts on Sunday, Trump shared a graphic reading: “If you have a problem with Lake Ontario being renamed Lake America just remember, the Left renamed the following.”
His list of things include various renamed U.S. military bases, commercial products, as well as the NFL’s Washington Commanders (formerly Redskins) and the MLB’s Cleveland Guardians (formerly Indians).
Later, while he didn’t mention Canada specifically, he posted three separate graphics explaining “Non-tariff cheating” and the “8 hidden tricks by foreign countries.”
Some of the examples of “cheating” include banning U.S. food, cheapening their money and applying “weird tests” to make it hard for American firms to enter their market.
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