Friday night’s final season edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher delivered a patronizing interview with Vice President JD Vance, but not before Maher first hammered President Donald Trump over his plummeting approval ratings and his Reflecting Pool debacle.
“Fourth of July coming up, and you know what? Today it opened, Supergirl, perfect for the Fourth of the July. Yeah, big superhero, another superhero movie opened this week, but what’s going on in Washington? Deadpool,” said Maher, according to reporting by Mediaite.
“Oh, we’ve killed the reflecting pool. I’m tired of hearing about the god—— reflecting pool,” Maher added. “I’ve got to say. I don’t really give a s—— about the reflecting pool. And I love America, but I’ve gotta admit, we’re the only place you could make a pool improve by p—— in it.
“But you know, the problem is now, there are dead ducks in the pool, or possibly murdered by Antifa. I don’t know,” Maher then continued. “But you know the pool is dragging down the president’s approval ratings. It’s like a little in the low 30s now in the country and among independents, 25 percent—and 0 percent with ducks.”
Trump is clearly growing sensitive over the state of the pool, which he forced taxpayer to pay $14 million in a no-bod contract to one of his connected flunkies.
A Colorado-based storm chaser even got a visit by the FBI after cracking a joke about introducing algae spores into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
“I am the leftist who put algae in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. This plan was months in the making. I introduced spores into the paint used by the contractors who repainted the pool. It was me the whole time,” said Patrick Pineda, in a since-deleted BlueSky post.
Pineda said his joke was so scientifically absurd, he assumed his audience would be intelligent enough to know it was a joke. But this is Trump’s FBI.
Meanwhile, Trump’s polling is still woefully cratered, and tearing down his party’s chances in November as well.
“Democrats have led the generic ballot in every single Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll since we began fielding in May 2025,” said pollster G. Elliot Morris. “Across 13 monthly polls (we skipped December 2025), Democrats have never trailed, with margins ranging from +5 to +10 points among registered voters.”
Just 25 percent of Americans approve of how Trump is handling prices, while 71 percent disapprove and 54 percent disapprove strongly, Morris added, creating a tough spot for Trump and the party.
“He is underwater on 11 of the 12 issues we tested,” Morris added.