Rep. Raskin Renames Reflecting Pool ‘Strait Of Warm Ooze’

Mocking Trump’s delusions of royalty is one of our best, most entertaining weapons.
By NewsHound Ellen — August 29, 2026

Donald Trump’s idiotic order to rename Lake Ontario, as well as his daydreaming about renaming the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, are sick and repulsive. But the jokes mocking him have been quite funny and enjoyable. Even better, they hit Trump where it hurts: at the heart of his narcissistic posturing as a great dictator.

On Thursday night, Rep. Jamie Raskin piled on. He paused an MS Now discussion about a judge’s ruling that halted Trump’s sabotage of mail-in voting to get in his own dig at Trump’s vanity.

Raskin’s target was Trump’s shockingly botched “renovation” of the Lincoln Reflecting Pool.

“Let's go with what we call it down here in the DMV, the Strait of Warm Ooze,” Raskin said. “How about that?”

“You win on hydronyms today,” host Lawrence O'Donnell replied, laughing.

In my last post, I noted that Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers mocked Trump with an “order,” written on a napkin, renaming Lake Michigan as “Lake Wisconsin.” Governor JB Pritzker renamed Trump Tower “Natalie Tower.”

In the video below, O’Donnell perfectly called out what should be a non-stop topic in the mainstream media and everywhere else: The madness of Donald Trump and the lying sycophants around him who pretend their emperor is clothed and presidential when he is clearly stark, raving mad. You know this would be a 24/7 topic had President Joe Biden exhibited even a fraction of Trump’s insanity and unfitness.

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