Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher mocked liberals who were losing their minds over President Donald Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario.
Trump announced the change to “Lake America” as his administration squabbles with Canadian leadership over trade and tariffs — and liberals, as Maher pointed out, were quick to claim that the president was not allowed to simply rename things whenever the political whim struck.
“Trump is so mad at Canada, he renamed Lake Ontario ‘Lake America,'” Maher said, prompting laughs. “Now I gotta buy a new globe again. It’s like the fifth time it’s happened” — a nod to Trump’s earlier renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”
“The liberals are very pissed at this,” he continued. “They say you can’t just go around changing things to fit your political agenda. Just ask any Latinx birthing person.”
Newsbusters Executive Editor Tim Graham laid out a similar argument, telling Fox News Digital, “Liberals want to rename all kinds of things to satisfy their urge for wokeness. Just in this decade, they’ve pulled down all kinds of statues and renamed scads of military bases. What they hate is anything Trump does to add a patriotic pro-America tinge to something which they associate more with his ego than with patriotism. They see red — as in a red MAGA cap.”
“The media routinely genuflect ethnic and LGBTQ pressure groups and their demands to remake the language we’re all supposed to use. So, they can’t seriously object to renaming things. They just want to be the only people who get to rename things,” he said.
Trump’s beef with Canada stems from trade talks that stalled again on Friday, despite reports that a deal was close. The resulting reciprocal tariffs — up to 50% on some goods — also prompted harsh words both from Trump and from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Carney, for example, accused Trump of attempting to destroy Canada’s automobile industry. Trump responded by labeling Canada “one of the worst countries in the world to deal with” and suggesting that Canada wanted the benefits of being a U.S. state without any of the responsibilities.
The Trump administration is relying on a never-before-used provision built into 1930’s Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act — Section 338 — which allows the president the authority to implement unilateral tariffs of up to 50% based on his determination that the nation against which he’s levying the tariffs is using policy to “discriminate” against the United States.
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