This weekend on his HBO show, Bill Maher talked about Trump changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, but in a refreshing change, he didn’t make fun of Trump, he ridiculed the liberal outrage over the change.

Remember, the left had no problem with tearing down historic statues or renaming everything for George Floyd, but this was somehow a bridge too far for them.

Bill Maher has not forgotten any of that, apparently.

RedState has details:

Liberals are all atwitter over President Donald Trump changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.

Now, while they want to focus on that, what they don’t want to address is the issues that have led to the trade problems with Canada – or what needs to be done to resolve them. They just want to use the issue to attack President Trump.

That’s why Bill Maher’s take on the issue on his HBO show “Real Time” on Friday was so funny. He leveled liberals over their take, and hoisted them with their own petard.

“Trump is so mad at Canada, he renamed Lake Ontario ‘Lake America,’” Maher said. “Now I have to buy a new globe again!” he joked.

“Liberals are very pissed at this. They say you can’t just go around renaming to suit your political agenda. Just ask any Latinx birthing person.”

The audience loved it, and he’s exactly right. The liberals’ beliefs are incoherent and inconsistent.

Watch the video below:

HILARIOUS: Bill Maher: “Trump is so mad at Canada, he renamed Lake Ontario Lake America… Liberals are very pissed at this. They say you can’t just go around renaming to suit your political agenda. Just ask any Latinx birthing person.”

NUKED! pic.twitter.com/ETZkHdqNgJ

— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) August 29, 2026

There once was a time when Bill Maher would have used this to bash Trump. Now he is using it to lampoon the left.

Things have definitely shifted.

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Zohran Mamdani’s new program to provide ‘free’ childcare to New York City residents is already running into all kinds of roadblocks from funding to physical resources.

Consider this a preview of how his city-owned grocery stores will operate.

Of course, the mayor has no choice but to try to make this work. He campaigned on this program, among others.

Also, it’s important to point out that this news about the problems with the childcare program is not being reported by conservative media, it’s the liberal New York Times.

Mamdani’s signature childcare program in trouble weeks before rollout.
Delayed funding
Bridge loans not arriving
Good reporting from the NYThttps://t.co/xx3LRQODWR pic.twitter.com/NAtVfZRVuj

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) August 29, 2026

From the NY Times story:

Funding Delays Threaten Rollout of Mamdani’s 2-K Program

Funding issues and late payments are threatening the rollout of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s free child care system for 2-year-olds, two weeks before the program is scheduled to begin, day care providers said.

Many early childhood centers have yet to receive funding to buy classroom furniture and basic supplies like pencils and paper, or to pay newly hired teachers and assistants. Without the money, several providers have warned parents that the centers will not open when school starts on Sept. 10.

Because of the delays, city officials had encouraged providers to apply for interest-free bridge loans from the city — not just for 2-K programs but also for 3-K and pre-K programs. But many of those who have applied for the loans say that money has not arrived either, forcing them to take out high-interest personal loans, borrow from relatives and drain their personal savings.

Who could have predicted such a thing?

Wait until he tries a grocery store. https://t.co/jqObeJmXGN

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 29, 2026

the thing about using other people’s money to pay for stuff is it’s notoriously hard to get https://t.co/YyAVpmXEaH

— Kent Graham (@kent_graham) August 29, 2026

Weeeeeeeee! The people that run the DMV are in charge of everything. https://t.co/gXrzZtGyAX

— Dominic Riebli (@dominicriebli) August 29, 2026

It’ll be fun to see how this goes once the program launches.

Surely, everything will be fixed by then. Right?

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This weekend on the Bill Maher show, Byron Donalds, the Republican candidate for governor of Florida, absolutely mopped the floor with MSNOW contributor Molly Jong-Fast.

She tried to set him up on a question about vaccinations, and was clearly trying to portray Donalds as some sort of loon, but his reponse to her was so perfect and intelligent that she ended up looking like a complete moron.

Donalds even got applause from Maher’s liberal audience.

Transcript via the Vigilant Fox:

MOLLY JONG-FAST: “You’ve had to say some stuff. Like last week on Margaret Brennan’s show, you said rampant illegal immigration was the cause for this measles outbreak and not not being vaccinated. I’m curious. Like, I have three kids. You have three kids. Do you not vaccinate your kids?”

BYRON DONALDS: “My oldest son is 23 years old. The vaccination schedule for him was less intense than the vaccination schedule for my 15-year-old son. And if you have talked to my mom, the vaccination schedule for me, being 47 years old, was not nearly as intense as it is for newborns today.

“So I think there are parents, there are mothers who have real concerns about the frequency of vaccines for young infants into just being a toddler. And so I think the order that came out the other day from the White House was, well, let’s just spread the vaccination schedule back out. Let parents have an ability to make those decisions for their children with informed consent. And then the last piece is, let’s also make sure that the human body in its infancy can actually manage the amount of vaccines that are being put into their child. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.”

BILL MAHER: “I don’t either.”

JONG-FAST: “We have people dying of measles. We had two people in Ohio die of measles. We were almost eradicated from measles and now we have measles again, and there’s a reason for that. And the idea that you said illegal immigration causes—”

DONALDS: “Under the previous administration, more than 10 million people came into the country illegally, and I know for a fact, just like everybody else — you can read your notes too — they weren’t checking their vaccination schedules coming into the United States. That’s a fact. That’s number one.

“Number two, there was a measles outbreak in a couple of the detention facilities on the southern border. There was a measles outbreak in El Paso, Texas. There was also one in Chicago at another illegal immigration facility. Those are the facts.

“So when you let that many people come into your country, when we already know in other countries they don’t have the vaccination schedule that we have, and then when the Department of Health and Human Services is talking about American children, now you’re finding fault with vaccination schedules for American children? I don’t think that’s an accurate way to look at it.”

Watch the video:

MSNBC contributor tries to corner Byron Donalds on measles and demands to know if he vaxxes his kids.

His answer left her looking stupid. And Bill Maher even piled on at the end.

MOLLY JONG-FAST: “You’ve had to say some stuff. Like last week on Margaret Brennan’s show, you said… pic.twitter.com/pGLXrHqgkg

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) August 29, 2026

What a perfect response.

If Donalds keeps this up, he will easily win the race for governor of Florida.

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What if Democrats in Michigan held a convention and no one showed up? From the looks of the video below, that’s almost what happened this week.

You can see entire rows of seats sitting empty. Where are all of the people? Isn’t this supposed to be a big year for the Democrats? Aren’t they expecting a blue wave in November? This is not a good sign for them.

Some people have suggested that there are too many groups of people who did not feel welcome attending the event.

The Michigan GOP explained in a tweet:

BREAKING NEWS: HALF EMPTY CROWDS, FEARS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS, STIFLE MICHIGAN DEMOCRAT CONVENTION

JEWS, INDIAN-AMERICANS, AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY NOT WELCOMED BY EXTREME LEFT

JEWS: Michigan’s top Jewish Democrat, Attorney General Dana Nessel, skipped today’s convention over antisemitism fears.

INDIAN-AMERICANS: Indian-Americans in Michigan just spoke out against Abdul El-Sayed’s racist attacks against Second Lady Usha Vance.

THE BLACK COMMUNITY: Black voters have unanswered questions for Jocelyn Benson, who still refused to tell us what she knew and when she knew about the massive SPLC fraud scandal, where the group literally funded the KKK.

The uneasiness and discomfort of current Michigan Democrat Party delegates is on full display as multiple high profile Democrats—and countless rank-and-file Democrats—DECLINED to attend their convention today out of fear for their safety and wellbeing as the radical, extremist Left continues their FULL TAKEOVER of the Democrat Party.

Abdul El-Sayed and Jocelyn Benson have alienated countless Democrats who have real questions over Benson’s involvement with the SPLC funding of the KKK, and they are struggling with Democrat voters who do not share their views that disparage Second Lady Usha Vance and the belief that, “America deserved 9/11.”

See the video below:

BREAKING NEWS: HALF EMPTY CROWDS, FEARS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS, STIFLE MICHIGAN DEMOCRAT CONVENTION

JEWS, INDIAN-AMERICANS, AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY NOT WELCOMED BY EXTREME LEFT

JEWS: Michigan’s top Jewish Democrat, Attorney General Dana Nessel, skipped today’s convention… pic.twitter.com/CtocGGI9SH

— Michigan GOP (@MIGOP) August 29, 2026

Democrats have made a lot of mistakes this year. They embraced far-out candidates with repulsive ideas and offered the American people little more than hatred of Trump and socialism. Not exactly a winning combination.

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An Obama-appointed federal judge in Alaska delivered a major legal victory to President Donald Trump this week, dismissing a lawsuit brought by a coalition of powerful environmental organizations seeking to block Trump’s reversal of Joe Biden’s sweeping offshore drilling restrictions.

U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason dismissed the complaint on Monday, August 24, after determining that the environmental groups failed to establish a substantial risk of imminent harm.

Gleason was nominated to the federal bench by Barack Obama in 2011.

The case, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, et al. v. Trump, et al., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska under case number.

The plaintiffs included the Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Alaska Wilderness League, Oceana, Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, Healthy Gulf, Center for Biological Diversity, Turtle Island Restoration Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, and Conservation Law Foundation.

The radical environmental coalition sued President Trump, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after Trump reversed Biden-era withdrawals of vast sections of the Outer Continental Shelf from possible oil and natural gas leasing.

During his final days in office, Biden attempted to lock away more than 625 million acres of federal waters from future energy production.

The massive withdrawal covered federal waters along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of America, and portions of Alaska’s northern Bering Sea.

President Trump rescinded the withdrawals on his first day back in office, allowing the affected areas to be considered as part of a future offshore oil and gas leasing program.

The environmental groups immediately ran to court, claiming Trump had exceeded his authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and that his action created an imminent threat of environmental damage.

But there was one major problem: There was no imminent drilling activity.

The court found that there were no pending applications for geological or geophysical exploration activities in federal Outer Continental Shelf waters outside the Western and Central Gulf of America.

Judge Gleason concluded that the alleged environmental injuries depended on a chain of future government and industry decisions that had not yet occurred.

“Presently, the Court can only speculate as to whether any of the previously withdrawn OCS acreage will be included in any new oil and gas leasing program or proposed lease sale,” Gleason wrote in her 23-page dismissal order.

In other words, the environmental groups demanded that the court block President Trump’s energy policy based on activities that had not been proposed, approved, or scheduled.

The court refused.

Gleason granted the Trump administration’s motion to dismiss and ordered the clerk to enter final judgment and close the case.

“The court properly dismissed plaintiffs’ case, because they failed to show an imminent injury from President Trump’s reopening of the OCS,” Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Adam Gustafson said.

Gustafson explained that offshore energy development remains subject to an ongoing regulatory process and that political priorities or industry interest cannot turn a hypothetical injury into a concrete one.

Attorneys from the Justice Department’s Energy and Natural Resources Division handled the case. 

The dismissal was entered without prejudice, meaning the environmental organizations could attempt to bring another lawsuit if a specific lease sale or exploration project moves forward.

The court also did not decide the broader legal question of whether one president has the authority to reverse an Outer Continental Shelf withdrawal issued by a previous president.

The Trump administration had additionally argued that the case was not ripe, that President Trump had sovereign immunity, that the plaintiffs had no legal right of action, and that there was no final agency action subject to review under the Administrative Procedure Act.

Judge Gleason did not address those arguments because the plaintiffs’ failure to establish standing was enough to dismiss the case.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Biden moved during his final weeks in office to permanently block offshore energy development in a transparent attempt to obstruct President Trump’s energy-dominance agenda.

When Biden officially announced the 625-million-acre withdrawal on January 6, 2025, Trump called the move “ridiculous” and promised to reverse it immediately upon returning to office.

Trump kept his promise on day one.

Now, the environmental left’s attempt to use speculative claims and courtroom lawfare to preserve Biden’s anti-energy legacy has suffered a significant setback.

Drill, baby, drill!

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