WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday signed an executive order directing federal agencies to stop calling Canada “Canada” and to begin referring to it as “Snow Mexico,” the latest and largest entry in a year-long campaign to relabel North American geography. The order instructs the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to update the Geographic Names Information System within 30 days, replacing all official references to Canada with the new designation. The change applies to maps, contracts, briefings, weather products, and any document produced by the executive branch. “We already have a Mexico,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, standing beside a map on which the word CANADA had been covered with a gold “SNOW MEXICO” sticker. “This one is just colder. It’s very simple. People understand it immediately. New Mexico, Snow Mexico. Beautiful names. Matching set.” He added that the United States had “a gulf and a lake” and now required “a country that makes sense on the map.” The move follows last week’s order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” and last year’s directive that federal agencies call the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” Trump said the Canada change was “effective immediately” for U.S. purposes and was not, he insisted, a message to Ottawa. “No message,” he said. “They’ve been ripping us off on trade for a long time. They want the benefits of being a state without being one. Snow Mexico is cleaner. It’s accurate. It’s cold. It’s north of the other one. Done.” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected the name within the hour. “Canada is called Canada,” Carney wrote. “The name predates the United States, the Confederation of this country, and any executive order issued on a Sunday morning. We will continue to call it Canada today, tomorrow, and in every winter that follows.” Ontario Premier Doug Ford called the order “real foolishness” and said the province would not reprint a single highway sign. Several other premiers issued near-identical statements noting that snow is weather, not a constitutional category. There is no international body that assigns official names to countries. The order binds only the U.S. government. Mexico has not commented. New Mexico officials did not immediately return requests for clarification on whether they consider the branding complementary or confusing. White House officials said the name reflects “geographic and climatic reality.” A fact sheet accompanying the order noted that Canada is colder than Mexico, lies farther north, and “has not been pulling its weight.” It did not address language, Indigenous place names, or the existence of ten provinces and three territories. Asked whether Snow Mexico was intended as a precursor to statehood, Trump said he had not thought about it “in that way,” then said he had been thinking about it “for a long time, actually.” Google, Apple, and other map providers have not announced whether U.S. users will see the new label. After the Gulf of America change, several platforms displayed different names depending on the user’s country. Canadian officials said they expect the same split and do not plan to negotiate it. In Ottawa, a city councillor who last week moved to rename Trump Avenue suggested the street could now be called “Old Mexico Access Road.” The motion has not been scheduled. Trump said further updates were possible. “We have the gulf, we have the lake, we have Snow Mexico,” he said. “If we need an ocean, we’ll do an ocean. We’re very good at this.” Canada’s retaliatory tariffs remain scheduled to take effect September 8. The lake is still called Lake Ontario in Toronto. The country is still called Canada everywhere except, for the next 30 days, inside the United States government. The post Trump Officially Renames Canada ‘Snow Mexico’ appeared first on Genesius Times.