Canadian rockerBryan Adamshas released a new single, taking aim at U.S. PresidentDonald Trumpand his executive order to renameLake OntariotoLake America.
The song,titledLake Ontario, was released on Wednesday and will appear as a bonus track on the Kingston, Ont.-born singer’s upcoming album,How’s It Goin’, set to be released on Nov. 6.
In August, Trumpsigned an executive orderdirecting U.S. federal agencies to refer to Lake Ontario as “Lake America.”
“Empires and regimes, dictators and kings, they all come and go. Lake Ontario is forever. This is a song for all the sane people on both shores who know that the current madness will pass, and that Lake Ontario will always be Lake Ontario,” Adams said in a statement.
In the new song, the 66-year-old singer calls out “a baby tossing the toys from the pram” due to things not “going his way in Iran.”
“From glacial erosion – to Indigenous care / From European exploration – to industrial wear and tear / The ‘lake of shining waters’ is what the Iroquois called her / It’s a First Nations name – not an executive order,” Adams begins the song.
Elsewhere in the song, Adams refers to the renaming of the lake as “another distraction” as “theEpstein fileswere getting traction.”
Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. The Justice Department said in January that some of the documents in the Epstein files contain “untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election.”
The Trump administration has faced backlash since the rollout of the files began in December, with critics accusing the department ofhiding certain documentsor over-redacting files.
“One day they’ll come out and we’ll say ‘there you go’ / And then we’ll all dive into Lake Ontario,” Adams sings. “After centuries of trade and war / People settled down on the banks and shores / All rivalries and conflicts – had all but ceased / But it just took one dude to break that peace.”
Adams’ music video forLake Ontarioshowcases clips of the singer in a row boat on the water.
In June, theSummer of ’69singer released another song taking aim at Trump, titled51st State, in which he celebrated Canadian pride and “values that have shaped the country from coast to coast to coast.”
“I wanted to write something about Canada because Canada is home,” Adamssaid ahead of the releaseof the song on Canada Day. “There is more that binds us than divides us. This is a tribute to the pride and spirit of my fellow Canadians – the rest is just noise.”
“Let me give it to you straight / When you’re talking ’bout my home / You better show some respect / ‘Cause up here we take care of our own / So let me give you some advice, mister / You might have too much on your plate / Go on load us up with tariffs / But we’ll never be the 51st State,” Adams sings.
Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state.
