Cleveland City Council approves renaming portion of Lake Erie

Published September 16, 2026 11:22am ET




Ohio officials this week goaded President Donald Trump with a snarky name change to a portion of Lake Erie, after the president sought to rename another one of the Great Lakes. 

The Cleveland City Council renamed a section of Lake Erie as the “Gulf of Cleveland,” in a jab at Trump’s recent executive order declaring that Lake Ontario be called “Lake America.” The emergency resolution passed in a 13-1 vote. The ceremonial action is not legally binding and applies only in Cleveland, but it requires the city clerk to ask Apple and other national mapping companies to make the change.

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