Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor says ‘Lake Ontario’ lyric now an anti-Trump rallying cry

By Alex Nino Gheciu Greg Keelor had been mulling what to say about Donald Trump all night. Blue Rodeo was about to play “Hasn’t Hit Me Yet” during their Saturday show at Toronto’s RBC Amphitheatre, and the Canadian band’s frontman knew their 1993 hit contained a newly loaded lyric: “Out in the middle of Lake Ontario.” Keelor considered using the moment to tear into the U.S. president, who last week signed an executive order to rename the body of water “Lake America.” “A part of me just wanted to go off on Trump and just call him a lot of bad names,” the singer-songwriter says in an interview Monday. But he opted for a different approach. Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor talks about the viral moment at the band’s Toronto show…

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