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Mapping the World Essentials
Season 5 · Episode 114
Trump’s Cartographic Provocations
0.04mSeptember 8, 2026
Amid a trade dispute with Canada, Donald Trump proposed renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America.” His team had already published maps depicting Canada as a possible 51st US state, as well as Greenland. Trump uses cartographic provocations when reality fails to match his ambitions.