Category: Satire

Cartoon: Trump brand arrest ™

Posted on by Mark Fiore

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Of course I would love it if the days of giving Donald Trump any attention were over, but it is kind of a big deal when an ex-president is arrested.

Let’s hope that this season’s Trump show won’t result in every news network giving him free airtime to rant and rave. So far, signs are good(ish) that media outlets won’t turn over their megaphones to him quite like they did when he first ran for president.

I’m not interested in the sheer outrageousness of Trump and the insanity that emanates from his mouth — as much as in who is supporting and defending him. Still. After the insurrection. After two impeachments. After so many lies. After ripping refugee children from their families. (Sorry, I just can’t seem to let that one go.)

It is truly incredible the amount of support the newly-arrested Donald J. Trump received from Republicans in Congress. Consider me surprised and flabbergasted at the same time.

Cartoon: Have your spine and eat it too

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According to Mitch McConnell and other Republicans in the Senate, the Democratic impeachment managers proved the case that Donald Trump incited his mob to attack the Capitol in an insurrection with the goal of stopping the peaceful transfer of power in the U.S. presidential election. But, thanks to an imagined phrase in the Constitution, you can’t convict someone in an impeachment once they have left office.

Whatever happened to the Republican Party’s strict textual reading of our nation’s founding document? Never mind, Senate Republicans only wanted a fig leaf — any fig leaf — to be able to let Trump off the hook for an attack on our democracy.

McConnell went the even more craven route than just spouting constitutional nonsense to justify an acquittal. His speech taking Trump to task for his naughty actions made his vote to acquit look even more outrageous. It’s pretty clear that outside of some outliers like Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney, the Republican Party is going all-in with an autocratic cult leader.

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Cartoon: ‘EZ-Leave!’ To Show You Care

Posted on by Mark Fiore

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Now that President Trump has become the first president in the history of the United States to be impeached twice, more of his Republican allies will no doubt slink away. Resignations have already been piling up from the cabinet level on down since Trump incited a violent mob to attack the U.S. Capitol building.

Betsy DeVos, Elaine Chao and Mick Mulvaney, among others, have just had it up to here with this president. Why, some switch must have flipped and made Trump a madman, right? (Mulvaney even said that today’s Trump is not the one he knew eight months ago.)

I’m happy complicit Republicans are finally trying to un-complicit themselves, I just wish they had found their spines when Trump tried to get Ukraine’s president to dig up dirt on Joe Biden or when the administration separated thousands of children from their families or right after the “both sides” comment about Charlottesville or . . .

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