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Press Q&A · 27 Aug 2026

Remarks on signing an executive order renaming Lake Ontario, and an exchange with reporters

Donald Trump, President of the United States

Official record: Office of the Federal Register, Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents (govinfo.gov). Retrieved 2 Oct 2026.

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Official title
Remarks on Signing an Executive Order Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America and an Exchange With Reporters
Speaker
Donald J. Trump (President of the United States)
Date delivered
27 Aug 2026
Where
Washington, DC.
Publisher
Office of the Federal Register, Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents (govinfo.gov)
Page
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/DCPD-202600562/DCPD-202600562
Fetched from
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202600562/html/DCPD-202600562.htm
Retrieved
2026-10-02T00:17:53+00:00
SHA-256 of raw file
679efb162b0bc169fab557de142fd54aa2cd30a4c95f9d2797d88fb7b48df6c7
Licence
U.S. Government work, public domain
Note on record
NOTE: The President spoke at 1:21 p.m. in the Oval Office at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to South Carolina Republican senatorial candidate Sen. Darline Graham Nordone; Georgia Democratic senatorial candidate Annie Andrews; President Xi Jinping of China; Texas Republican senatorial candidate State Attorney General W. Kenneth Paxton, Jr.; and Texas Democratic senatorial candidate James D. Talarico. Reporters referred to Central Intelligence Agency Director John L. Ratcliffe; and President Masud Pezeshkian of Iran.

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