MapQuest Downloads Soar After They Refuse To Bend The Knee To Trump Over Lake Ontario—And We Love To See It

The 30-year-old navigation company MapQuest is topping the download charts after not following Google's lead and following President Donald Trump's order to change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America."

In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed that the United States was considering "changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don't expect to [be] doing much business with Ontario any longer."

Trump later signed an executive order directing U.S. government agencies to refer to Lake Ontario as “Lake America.” The change applies only to official U.S. government usage and does not alter the lake’s name in Canada or in international usage.

Google has already adopted Trump’s preferred name for American users, displaying “Lake America” on its maps, while Apple is reportedly considering whether to follow suit amid pressure from the White House.

But MapQuest openly rejected Trump’s August 27 executive order, posting "We're not changing it" in a post accompanying a screenshot of a map of Lake Ontario.

You can see the post below.

Three days later, the company responded, "We are aware that Lake Ontario is being correctly labeled on our map," affirming that it would not refer to the body of water as "Lake America."

You can see the post below.

MapQuest has since surged ahead of Google Maps and Apple Maps in downloads amid the ongoing trade dispute with Canada. TechCrunch was the first to report the surge. The app was ranked No. 1 on Apple’s App Store as of Tuesday morning, a position The Guardian confirmed.

TechCrunch reported that the app had climbed to No. 4 among the most-downloaded apps in the U.S., excluding games, while also taking the top spot in the navigation category, ahead of Google Maps at No. 2. In Canada, MapQuest had risen to become the country’s second-most-downloaded app overall by Sunday evening.

MapQuest acknowledged all of this by sharing a screenshot that shows it at the top of one of the downloads charts, adding:

"The people have spoken. We are working."

You can see the post below.

People are thrilled.

It couldn't have happened to a nicer navigation company.