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

Bryan Adams at the 2025 iHeartRadio music festival on 19 September 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photograph: Christopher Polk/Billboard/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenBryan Adams at the 2025 iHeartRadio music festival on 19 September 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Fotografia: Christopher Polk/Billboard/Getty Images Cortes como faca no Canadá: o rocker canadense Bryan Adams provoca Trump com nova música O músico escreveu uma ‘carta de amor’ ao Canadá com um novo álbum – e algumas críticas pontuais ao presidente dos EUA.

Prefer the Guardian on GoogleLake Ontario, the vast body of water that straddles the US-Canada border, has gone by many names over the centuries: Lac Saint-Louis, Lacus Ontarius, Skaniadorio, Cataraqui Lake.

But one thing it will never be called, says the Canadian rock star Bryan Adams, is Lake America.

Em sua nova música Lake Ontario, Adams mira no presidente dos EUA, Donald Trump, acusando-o de “breaking the peace” entre as pessoas que vivem nas margens do lago.

Trump signed an executive order in August directing US federal agencies to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America”, echoing his earlier, widely mocked decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico “the Gulf of America”.

Read moreThe move further escalated a feud with Canada that has strained the longstanding alliance between the two countries. Trump’s decision has largely been met with derision in Canada, with some pointing out that the province of Ontario is named after the lake, not the other way around.

Adams’s lyrics emphasise the roots of the name.

double quotation markThe ‘lake of shining waters’ is what the Iroquois called her.

It’s a First Nations name – not an executive order.

As letras de Adams também sugerem que o truque de nomeação de Trump foi destinado a desviar a atenção dos outros problemas políticos do presidente, incluindo a guerra no Irã e a renovada investigação dos arquivos de Jeffrey Epstein.

double quotation markBut things weren’t going his way in Iran.

Como se fosse um bebê jogando os brinquedos do carrinho.

But it feels like another distraction.

While the Epstein files were getting traction.

The song is part of what Adams described in a recent interview as a broader “love letter” to Canada: a songwriting project that began with an invitation from a film company to write about the Maritimes provinces of Canada and has since morphed into the upcoming album How’s It Goin’.

As well as homages to Canadian heroes, the album also includes 51st State, released on 1 July – Canada Day – as another repudiation of Trump, in this case his efforts to annex Canada.

Desculpe, não tenho acesso a notícias em tempo real.

double quotation markYou can push us to the brink.

The first time he played the song in public was in the US.