Haiti suddenly went from 'GREAT ALREADY' to 'hell' now that Trump is sending back its people
The existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre claimed that "hell is other people." Former Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera is among the bleeding hearts who believe that hell is Haiti — at least now that the Trump administration is repatriating its people.
Then
President Donald Trump identified Haiti in a January 2018 meeting as one among various "s**thole countries." This was, after all, then a failed state plagued by violence, haunted by rumors of cannibalism, and still reeling from a deadly earthquake.
'Ridiculous.'
There was tremendous backlash over Trump's remarks — not only from the Haitian government and the United Nations' human rights office but from Democrats and the liberal media.
Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D) were among the many concern-mongers who claimed that Trump's vivid characterization of Haiti as a less-than-ideal nation was "racist."
In addition to similarly attacking Trump, celebrities ran a PR campaign for the Caribbean nation, portraying it as a paradisiacal place.
Conan O'Brien, for instance, aired a one-hour special showcasing Haiti's perceived beauty — a special that included refutations of Trump's "s**thole" comment from Haitian natives along with repeated emphases that the island nation was a "beautiful country."
In subsequent months, others, including Bill Maher, jumped on the bandwagon, donning apparel that stated, "HAITI IS GREAT ALREADY."
Unfortunately, the situation deteriorated in Haiti before it got better — simultaneously confirming Trump's initial framing and prompting the liberal media to ramp up its gaslighting campaign.
When confronted — a couple of years after Haitian President Jovenel Moise's assassination — with reports that criminals had taken over the country's capital, freed thousands of felons from jail, engaged in systematic rape, forced the prime minister to resign, and threatened genocide, NBC News, for instance, reassured its viewers in 2024 that contrary to claims by "right-wing pundits," the Western Hemisphere's poorest country did not also have a problem with cannibalism.
Now
The Trump administration announced in July 2025 that it was terminating Haiti's Temporary Protected Status, having determined that the Caribbean nation no longer meets the conditions for special status, in part due to improvements in domestic safety and stability.
While the administration recognized that the country still suffers a "lack of functional government authority" and that "gang violence in Haiti persists," then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stated that "the environmental situation in Haiti has improved enough that it is safe for Haitian citizens to return home."
This revocation of Haiti's special status — which has shielded roughly 350,000 Haitians from removal — faced multiple legal challenges; however, the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled in the administration's favor in June.
Now that the Department of Homeland Security is "going after" Haitian migrants with suspended special statuses, the usual suspects have jettisoned their "HAITI IS GREAT ALREADY" framing and adopted the president's previous understanding of the Caribbean country as a loathsome place.
Geraldo Rivera, who asked Trump in 2018 to apologize for his "unfortunate" remarks about Haiti and other third-world nations, wrote on Sunday — in the wake of reports about the deportation initiative under way — that "expelling Haitian immigrants is sending them straight to hell."
Rivera was widely criticized for joining the chorus of liberals against the repatriation campaign.
Normalcy advocate Robby Starbuck wrote in response, "Didn’t the entire media and Democrats in DC swear that Haiti was amazing and wonderful and perfect when Trump called it a hellhole? Trump then said okay, then sounds like they can go back and now the framing switches to, 'it’s hell on earth, you can’t send them back!' Ridiculous."
Mike Howell, the president of the Oversight Project and Blaze News contributor, alluded to Rivera's previous concern-mongering over Trump's "s**thole," then asked, "What happened[?]"
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EXPOSED: Bill Maher calls out Fauci for trying to rewrite COVID history
Fauci thought we would forget; now he’s desperately trying to rewrite history.
The infectious disease “expert” has shifted his story on gain-of-function research and the lab leak theory — but longtime Democrat Bill Maher isn’t letting him off the hook.
“He was caught in actual lies,” Maher said. “He was telling people — and the big issue to me is the origin of this, which is very important. How did it start? And he was telling people up front when it first began, ‘It was from the wet markets. That’s a conspiracy theory if you say it escaped from the lab.’”
Maher pointed out that the release of Fauci’s diary by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has proven that he “knew better,” and he blames not only Fauci but the extremely partisan split on how to handle the pandemic.
“If we weren’t so partisan, we could just say gain-of-function research,” he said. “Obama told him not to do it. I would always have said don’t do it. But it’s a viable debate. It’s a reasonable debate. Should we soup up something that’s bad, this bacteria, to study it?”
“We could have had that debate in a rational way,” he continued. “We didn’t want to do that because why? Because we make everything about race.”
Maher recalled that during the pandemic, no one was allowed to say it “escaped from the lab because that was the racist point of view” and would mean “the entire Asian continent would have been somehow complicit in this because it escaped.”
“It was ridiculous, but that is where they went,” he added.
“Welcome to reality. Seriously, welcome to some common sense,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”
“He’s starting to see the Democrat Party for what it is,” he adds.
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Glenn Beck says Bill Maher may be ‘the most important man on the planet’ after shocking DSA monologue
In his June 2026 interview with Vice President JD Vance, Bill Maher noted that the Democratic Party’s direction — specifically the embracing of democratic socialists — could cost it his support.
“If this is where they’re going, my vote is in play,” he admitted.
Although Maher took a lot of flak for his honesty, he has refused to soften his stance. During a recent episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the longtime Democrat illustrated why his vote was up for grabs by reading aloud statements from the Democratic Socialists of America platform.
His audience audibly gasped.
“This is not a conservative audience. It's not a church crowd in Tulsa. It's Los Angeles, an audience that shows up on a Friday night to laugh at Republicans,” says Glenn Beck, who played the clip of Maher.
“Donald Trump has told one trillion lies, but when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually communist, that's not one of them. And it's not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates,” said Maher.
“'You work as much as you are able and no more than needed,'” he read from the DSA platform, then responded, “If that was any closer to Karl Marx's dictum ‘from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,’ they'd be sued for plagiarism.”
He then noted that in 2020, New York City’s socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani actually tweeted this exact quote from Marx.
“Their most popular influencer, Hasan Piker, thinks communism is so groovy, he laments the fall of the two of the most murderous regimes in history: the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao’s China,” Maher continued.
He then turned his sights to Mamdani’s radical housing czar Cea Weaver.
“Cea Weaver said, ‘If you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize property, it's over’ and ‘impoverish the white middle class,’” Maher quoted.
But it was Weaver’s 2017 tweet — “Elect more communists” — that made the audience gasp.
Maher praised their reaction, saying he was “glad” they were shocked.
Glenn is encouraged too — but even more so that it’s Bill Maher who’s sounding the alarm.
“We're in a moment here right now, and Bill Maher may be the most important man on the planet to stop this,” he says.
“Everything he said in that entire monologue, and I urge you to go watch the whole thing and then share it, is published. It's sitting public,” he adds, emphasizing the DSA’s unapologetic communist sentiments.
The country, Glenn says, needs to understand the gravity of the situation we’re in right now right as the DSA grows ever more popular.
On its website, beneath its spiel about creating a communist utopia, is a list of objectives that ought to make our blood run cold. Glenn reads several of them:
- “Abolishing the police and prison system”;
- “Abolishing the Senate”;
- “Abolishing the electoral college”;
- “Replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by Congress, answerable only to Congress”;
- “Defunding the Department of War”;
- “Closing all of our overseas bases”;
- “Abolishing ICE”;
- “End to all detention and deportation”;
- “Amnesty for everyone regardless of status”; and
- “End to sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran.”
“And in the preamble, the sentence that ties the whole thing together, they are building a party to draft a new Constitution and to create a new Democratic Socialist republic,” Glenn adds.
Many people, he notes, mistakenly believe that DSA supporters are “fringe,” but they’re wrong.
“This isn't a small organization anymore. On the Fourth of July, they announced they passed 121,000 members, which according to their own numbers, makes them the largest socialist organization in American history, larger than Eugene Debs’ socialist party at its peak in 1912,” says Glenn.
“Also, the Marxist Unity Group Faction, the one that Maher named, holds three of the 25 seats on that national board. Five of their members won congressional primaries this year,” he adds, noting that the “loudest voices” calling out the DSA right now are actually Democrats.
Right now, the most important thing, says Glenn, is not that we “beat” the DSA; it’s that we “provide the introduction” to the DSA, like Maher did for his audience, so that the public can see firsthand the evil agenda it has planned for the country.
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Bill Maher makes astounding threat to Democrats unless they abandon communism
Comedian and talk show host Bill Maher has excoriated the continued drift of the Democratic Party toward the far left and now says he might even vote for a Republican for president in 2028.
Maher was speaking with Jonathan Karl of ABC News about being awarded the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for Humor when he admitted he may vote for Vice President JD Vance.
'Yes. My vote is in play. ... I'm not living in communist America.'
Maher said he was still critical of the Republican Party but that some Democrats are just too far left for him. He launched into the critique after Karl asked him why Democrats are afraid of coming on his show.
"Democrats are cowardly. They're cowardly," Maher said.
"Their party is being taken over now by, every day I hear about a new very radical — I feel very good about 10, whenever years ago, I did lose fans because I wasn't going to go along with some of this crazy stuff on the left too," he explained.
"I didn't change really on what I thought about the right, but just, I can't sit and just not notice stuff, which people seem to want to do because it's all about my team or your team," Maher added. "But, you know, there's some crazy stuff. You know, when we're cheering for the intifada, cut, I'm out."
He was referring to several Democratic candidates who have expressed their criticism of Israel by showing support for terrorist groups the nation's military targeted.
"You told JD Vance you're open, your vote is up for grabs," Karl said.
"Yes. My vote is in play because it can't be Trump running. So, I'm not living in communist America," Maher replied.
He said he expects and hopes the Democrats will "do very well" in the upcoming midterms. He was less certain about Democrats in 2028 because the Democratic Socialists of America are pushing policies that are explicitly communist in nature, which he opposes.
"2028 is a different story because by then this wing of the party, this new wing with all the energy — and it's not just a few people anymore," Maher added.
"Could you see yourself voting for JD Vance?" Karl asked.
"Yes," Maher replied. "If this is the Democratic side, yes."
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Establishment Democrats have sounded the alarm about extremists making inroads in the party after several democratic socialist candidates defeated other Democrats in recent primary elections.
While Vance is considered the front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2028, Blaze News contributor Frank DeVito has argued that U.S. strikes on Iran and the partisan fight over the U.S. relationship with Israel has complicated his path to the presidency.
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BILL PILLED: Maher warns fellow Democrats that they're headed for woke-tastrophe
It finally happened. We’ve grown tired of those mush-mouthed Minions.
At least a little.
Walz just pardoned an illegal immigrant who previously sexually assaulted a 10-year-old. It appears he did so to prevent the man’s deportation.
“Minions and Monsters” opens wide this weekend, and the early box office results are good ... not monstrous. The film should pull in $75 million or so over the five-day holiday weekend.
Great numbers, no doubt. Yet “Minions: The Rise of Gru” brought in $107 million over three days in 2022. These silly supporting creatures have milked their yellow-powered shtick for longer than anyone expected.
Now, at last, the gravy train may be slowing. That means we’ll only get three to five more sequels before Hollywood calls it a day ...
Minion minimum
You can’t say Bill Maher didn’t warn his fellow Democrats.
No liberal comedian has been tougher on his own side than Maher, the newest Mark Twain Prize winner. He’s blasted his fellow progressives over the woke mind virus, campus anti-Semitism, and more.
Now, after telling Vice President JD Vance his vote might be in play for 2028, he’s warning his fellow Democrats. Again. Maher said the election of three far-far-left Democrats in New York signals a party shift that could cost them the White House.
“So, how are they going to blow [retaking the White House in 2028]? I don’t know, but they seem to be well on their way.”
The left hasn’t listened to Maher yet, even though he’s trying to save them from themselves. Here’s betting they’ll tune him out anew ...
Charity case
What do you get the couple that has it all? How about the address of the nearest charity?
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are tying the knot soon, and the happy couple just cut checks totaling $26 million to various charities to honor the moment.
The 20 charities include nine food banks, an animal cruelty organization, seven educational programs, and three children’s hospitals.
In lieu of gifts, please don’t judge us for our opulent bank accounts ...
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The doctor is in
Deadline is furious that President Donald Trump has a sense of humor.
The president just shared a “deepfake” AI video where he plays a doctor addressing the celebrity rise of “Trump derangement syndrome.” It’s a farcical clip featuring TDS victims like Robert De Niro, Rosie O’Donnell, and Whoopi Goldberg.
The visuals are inconsistent. The De Niro imitation is all but perfect, while the others are clearly not the real deal.
It’s instantly fake and funny, and it’s not intended to convince anyone it’s real. Yet Deadline calls it a “deepfake” and suggests it could be banned under new legislation. Except in the next breath, it admits those rules wouldn’t likely apply to the clip.
So, never mind, we suppose ...
Last Walz?
Justine Bateman is the celebrity activist we didn’t know we needed.
The former “Family Ties” star has raged against AI, supported free speech, and defied her industry’s rigid groupthink.
Now, she’s taking on Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) in a way none of her higher profile peers might. Walz just pardoned an illegal immigrant who previously sexually assaulted a 10-year-old. It appears he did so to prevent the man’s deportation.
She dubbed Walz “grotesque” on social media for his actions. It’s even worse than “knucklehead,” the moniker he gave himself in his disastrous VP debate two years ago. It’s a perfect coda to the new documentary “Minnesota Mao,” the Alpha News production that skewered Walz and his inept leadership.
The better Walz nickname is coming soon: ex-governor ...
Turn on the dark
You don’t say no to Spidey.
Actress Sadie Sink is part of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” but we have no clue about her role mere weeks before its July 31 release. Turns out she was mostly in the dark too.
The actress admits she didn’t even get her hands on the film’s script until she was en route to the set for the first time.
“I knew that Marvel was a big deal and had a big brand, especially Spider-Man.”
At least she knew Supergirl was nowhere to be found on the set. Phew!