Cuts like a knife: Canadian rocker Bryan Adams trolls Trump with new song

Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams has released a song mocking President Donald Trump's order to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America." Titled Lake Ontario, it accuses Trump of disturbing the harmony among the people living along the shoreline. The track belongs to Adams's forthcoming album How's It Goin', which he calls a "love letter" to Canada, according to The Guardian.

Trump signed the order in August, telling federal agencies to adopt the new name. It resembles his earlier, much-ridiculed switch of the Gulf of Mexico to "the Gulf of America," and it added fuel to a quarrel that has strained relations between Washington and Ottawa. Many Canadians reacted with scorn, noting that the province of Ontario takes its name from the lake. Adams's lyrics stress the Indigenous origin of the name and suggest the president was seeking a distraction from trouble over the war in Iran and attention to the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Adams says the project grew from a film company's request for a song about the Maritime provinces, after which he kept writing along the same theme. The album also features 51st State, put out on Canada Day, July 1, which rebukes Trump's push to annex Canada.

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