If he retires, he’ll be hauled off to court. He’s not going to do that. If the 25th is invoked, he’ll probably flee the country. Pence is not likely to do that. Impeachment will happen after he is out of office, then he could all privilege’s provided to ex-presidents revoked. He might flee the country or he will face charges and jail time.
Wondering how far Trudeau works in advance. I expected Wednesday’s events to be reflected. ‘Political’ cartoonists get published the next day. I think publishers want ‘Comic strip’ cartoonists to have a couple weeks of material prepared in advance – no matter how political they are.
WONDERFUL COMMENTARY! THANKS, EVERYBODY! If he is impeached a second time, does that mean he will NEVER get a state funeral, with the horse and the march down Pennsylvania Avenue???? Be still, my beating heart. . .
He is so messed up and narcissistic that he actually thought a mob breaking into the Capitol and chanting “Hang Mike Pence” while building a gallows would make him look GOOD.
This week really had some highs and lows. The Georgia election turned out great. The next day some RWNJs stormed the Capitol on Trump’s orders. I hear Trump is considering pardoning them.
The vaccinations are going at a snail’s pace due to low supply. This needs to turn around soon. There are 3 states offering it first come first served, resulting in chaos. We have tools to make it orderly— such as an alphabet, numbers, a calendar, smart phones, computers, etc. but they aren’t being used to organize it. They could also go ahead and use what they have instead of reserving 2nd doses and work on using the defense production act to get additional supplies ASAP.
The next time somebody tells me about how comic strips are prepared weeks and months in advance, I’m coming back to this one to demonstrate that although they may be, they certainly don’t have to be.
With any luck, banks will foreclose on his golf courses forthwith. There is hope. Maybe he can find a prison with a golf course or an insane asylum that uses golf as therapy. trump should be careful, though. An insane asylum might forbid cheating.
Just getting him out of office is not enough. He’s tried to incite a coup and his followers will still listen to his lies. He can’t roam free around the world and launch new social media platforms. He needs the Napoleon treatment, being held on an island in the middle of no where closely monitored and in isolation. Seeing as we probably can’t lease St Helena I think Guantanamo is the closest thing we’ve got to it.
Looking at a few comments here… Now it begins… The Orange One, his party, and his followers have basically burned down the country, so a new line…. “Can’t we just get past the idea that our problems are the fault of JUST ONE party.” Really! I’m a damned Democrat and therefore know better than anyone that Democrats aint perfect, but… Wait a minute. There’s another one… “Let’s all just put the election behind us and work together.” That said, I guess these are better than this one: “I put up with Obama for eight years and said nothing. And then watched Dems do everything they could to prove Trump’s election wasn’t legitimate. So don’t expect me to be nice now!” Hold on. There’s another: “Everyone in the Capitol was an Antifa member!” Seriously, we all fool ourselves, but the ability of Trump’s supporters to deny objective reality is really frightening. Consider Trump’s management of the crisis caused by the virus. Guess the psychologists would say that once he decided it was a hoax there was for all intents and purposes no crisis to manage. Last Wednesday night, when the riots in DC were winding down, a friend of mine on FB threw out one of those manufactured exposes that purports to prove that Antifa members were behind all of the bad stuff. I, with much diplomacy, countered with a link that proved he had dealt fake news. He replied thusly: “You need to stop drinking the Koolaid.” I think we’re doomed.
Could someone please explain to me why, instead of whining about the 25th amendment and impeachment, the police did not just arrest him on the spot for inciting a riot and sedition? A day in jail would have been a good photo op. Also why would any Maga still believe in him when he said he would lead the march and instead left the march. Straight forward betrayal of his followers. Also why didn’t they pick up Rudy and Jr.? Neither of them have presidential teflon. Why are they not in jail right now?
I think, deep down, that The Donald would like to have been a stand up comic with an adoring audience. A Vaudevillian or at the summer Catskills circuit of yore for example. The problem is he has NO sense of humor, only an awkward body language, gestures, goofy smiles and smirks. There wouldn’t have been enough money in it as well; and wealth, or at least the appearance of wealth, has always been the paramount requirement for his self image.
Sleep Joe is earning that derisive label if he does not wake up. He is doing what some of us feared by talking about unity and moving forward and by not backing impeachment with conviction. It’s playing into the hands of the American Nazi Movement.
I had to hold my nose out of necessity to vote Democratic last November which was the first time in 28 years to vote for either major party candidate. In 2022 and 2024 I can abstain again or find a “liberal” GOOPer. Ignore the very numerous middle-of-the-road middle class fairness-for-all demographic again Dems and you get sent back to wandering the meaningless existence of the minority.
The other actions that have to be taken is to expel the Dirty Seven Senators who supported the objections to certification AFTER the insurrection, AND to censure every house member who did the same. If that did not send a message to anyone wanting to overthrow our Democracy by supporting insurrectionists and nullifying the most secure and fair election in US history then I do not know what would.
[Senators have longer terms and are supposed to be held to a higher standard. House members are powerless to deny the submitted state certifications without a Senator.]
Be sure to click off the muting icon. For me it was in the open access Twitter one but not the YouTube one.
Sometimes all that it takes for a good nation to fall to dictatorship is not complicit agreement but complacent silence. It does not matter if that silence is from fear caused by intimidation because once authoritarians win then the fear will truly be far greater.
Li’l Donnie is, as a matter of objective reality, a sociopath with no conscience. Forget 350,000 deaths (the number he himself is responsible for, because of his imbecility, dishonesty, cowardice, and insanity, is over 300,000). Li’l Donnie wouldn’t have cared if ten or twenty MILLION people had died, if that had helped him to win the election. And, for Trump fluffers, that would be ten or twenty million WHITE folks—for Trump, it wouldn’t have mattered the tenth part of a damn.
Am I alone in hoping that Trump’s owner, our enemy Vlad Putin, will go ahead and release the kompromat he has on Li’l Donnie, just for the sheer raw hell of it?
OMG – I’ll bet my entire 401K that Donald Trump has never let anyone play through in his entire life. (For the non-golfers out there, allowing someone to play through is a sign of respect and consideration when your slow play is holding them up)
BTW, both General Mattis and General Kelly have now criticized or ridiculed the draft dodger in chief. General Milley has found it necessary to reassure Congress of the military’s political neutrality. The support for Trump is among the enlisted ranks- the least educated in uniform. I was an enlisted man, but I was always troubled by the gullibility of my brothers in arms. Usually good hearted, but naive. Susceptible to Trump’s lies. Scary.
This strip must have been written and drawn long before the events of this week. I hope next Sunday’s strip shows what Trudeau must really think of Benedict Donald’s treasonous behavior this week. The blood on his hands should show very prominently in it.
I don’t think that Garry Trudeau does his own coloring, but I wonder if he has to give special instructions to the person who does about how to show that fake orange skin tone wrapping around only the front of Disaster Pumpkin’s skull.
These hands were bloodied la long time now…and Trudeau showed us! Now I’ve said he’s been crazy from the start and should’ve been restricted from social media! Unfortunately no one could or can’t control that! Oh and he’ll be busy, fingers crossed, doing time! This has been a shocking depressing week/time…
You know, it used to really burn my biscuits how much time he spent at his golf clubs when he should have been doing his JOB, but now I’d be perfectly okay with him going and spending the next ten days there.
Trudeau has REALLY gotten lazy. Those hands are WAY too large. And the belly rolls! The dude didn’t even make an EFFORT to hang them over the waistband properly. He’s just mailing it in at this point. #sad
BE THIS GUY almost 4 years ago
Now all he has is golf.
Aspen_Bell almost 4 years ago
When the virus showed up that got an actual snicker out of me. Hard to do these days.
alaskajohn1 almost 4 years ago
Blood on the hands: nice touch.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Tzw whatever , DjT and the virus : three misfortunes in one fell swoop .
tudza Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I work across from a golf course. They’re out there playing.
fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Too late. You were screwed before; now it is insurmountable.
Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 4 years ago
But every day — yes, each and every day — he sets a new …
World Record in Ball Dropping
2020-01-07 • Presidential Daily Brief: “Analysts concluded [coronavirus] could be a cataclysmic event.” • Trump did nothing.
2020-03-11 • WHO declared a global pandemic.
2020-04-15 • Trump suspended US funding of WHO.
2021-01-10 • US coronavirus deaths: 381,480 (52 weeks after PDB; 7336/week)
For comparison …
1941-12-07 • Pearl Harbor attack: 2,403
2001-09-11 • terrorist attacks: 2,977 (5 weeks after PDB warned Bush about it)
Korean War (33,686) + Vietnam War (58,220) + Afghan War (7,970): 99,876
WW1: 116,516 (83 weeks for US; 1403/week)
WW2: 418,500 (195 weeks for US; 2146/week)
Civil War: ~620,000 (213 weeks; 2911/week)
Spanish flu: ~675,000 (~117 weeks; 5769/week)
Brockie almost 4 years ago
I just realized that ifyou remove a few letters from POTUS it becomes POS.
Cminuscomics&stories Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Insurrection. A nation drawn into the abyss.
Alabama Al almost 4 years ago
I think by this time next month Donald is going to be busy enough.
AnnChovie almost 4 years ago
Nice there’s blood on his hands, Garry. He’s surely earned it.
quixotic3 almost 4 years ago
It’s a little late in the game to try to start governing. Plus, he’s totally incompetent, so there’s that.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 4 years ago
If he retires, he’ll be hauled off to court. He’s not going to do that. If the 25th is invoked, he’ll probably flee the country. Pence is not likely to do that. Impeachment will happen after he is out of office, then he could all privilege’s provided to ex-presidents revoked. He might flee the country or he will face charges and jail time.
Judeeye Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I’m certain donnie dearest has his demented dreams of revenge for all those who have betrayed him.
[Unnamed Reader - bf182b] almost 4 years ago
Do NOT ask him to govern. He just might.
Aladar30 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
These former dictators, always with their funny ideas.
babka Premium Member almost 4 years ago
he had better see prison
David in Webb Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Good grief – give it a rest.
Lawrence.S almost 4 years ago
Wondering how far Trudeau works in advance. I expected Wednesday’s events to be reflected. ‘Political’ cartoonists get published the next day. I think publishers want ‘Comic strip’ cartoonists to have a couple weeks of material prepared in advance – no matter how political they are.
1953Baby almost 4 years ago
WONDERFUL COMMENTARY! THANKS, EVERYBODY! If he is impeached a second time, does that mean he will NEVER get a state funeral, with the horse and the march down Pennsylvania Avenue???? Be still, my beating heart. . .
Joseph McFarlane almost 4 years ago
He’s fast tracking environmental destruction!
scote1379 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
If Trumpie the Clown flees the Country I ask who would have Him ? And why ?
Ontman almost 4 years ago
c.davies almost 4 years ago
The last panel is going to be a classic!
wrd2255 almost 4 years ago
It has been pointed out that golf spelled backwards is flog.
mizdurble almost 4 years ago
Blood on his hands, literally.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Just remember, we still have to live with ex-President Trump for years to come.
Geophyzz almost 4 years ago
I’ve wondering what we will see in Disneyworld’s Hall of Presidents. Any suggestions?
Jhony-Yermo almost 4 years ago
mfdjt
Mr. JRB almost 4 years ago
And the nuclear button
Ignatz Premium Member almost 4 years ago
He is so messed up and narcissistic that he actually thought a mob breaking into the Capitol and chanting “Hang Mike Pence” while building a gallows would make him look GOOD.
montessoriteacher almost 4 years ago
This week really had some highs and lows. The Georgia election turned out great. The next day some RWNJs stormed the Capitol on Trump’s orders. I hear Trump is considering pardoning them.
montessoriteacher almost 4 years ago
The vaccinations are going at a snail’s pace due to low supply. This needs to turn around soon. There are 3 states offering it first come first served, resulting in chaos. We have tools to make it orderly— such as an alphabet, numbers, a calendar, smart phones, computers, etc. but they aren’t being used to organize it. They could also go ahead and use what they have instead of reserving 2nd doses and work on using the defense production act to get additional supplies ASAP.
rugeirn almost 4 years ago
The next time somebody tells me about how comic strips are prepared weeks and months in advance, I’m coming back to this one to demonstrate that although they may be, they certainly don’t have to be.
Alverant almost 4 years ago
I see he’s still breaking the rules (kicking the golf ball) and still denying reality. Just like his cult followers.
BilboDaddy almost 4 years ago
love the blood on the Cheeto’s hands.
walkingmancomics almost 4 years ago
Golf, and bloody hands
ArthurDClogg almost 4 years ago
With any luck, banks will foreclose on his golf courses forthwith. There is hope. Maybe he can find a prison with a golf course or an insane asylum that uses golf as therapy. trump should be careful, though. An insane asylum might forbid cheating.
Anon4242 almost 4 years ago
Just getting him out of office is not enough. He’s tried to incite a coup and his followers will still listen to his lies. He can’t roam free around the world and launch new social media platforms. He needs the Napoleon treatment, being held on an island in the middle of no where closely monitored and in isolation. Seeing as we probably can’t lease St Helena I think Guantanamo is the closest thing we’ve got to it.
PeterPirate almost 4 years ago
Worst timing for a Doonesbury strip ever.
BarryCochran Premium Member almost 4 years ago
This strip represents one of those rare times that events completely overtake Trudeau before publication.
gayle454 almost 4 years ago
Ugh! That view in panel 4! My eyes burn! Gotta go look at pics of kittens for relief….
GaryCooper almost 4 years ago
As he has made very clear, DJT doesn’t mind if Rona plays through.
Bucinka almost 4 years ago
Ew. Worst cameltoe EVER. (I do see Garry’s colorist has been busy with the mesh fill in CorelDRAW, though.)
Durak Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I’m afraid Trudeau was a bit too complimentary drawing the president.
shw123 almost 4 years ago
Looking at a few comments here… Now it begins… The Orange One, his party, and his followers have basically burned down the country, so a new line…. “Can’t we just get past the idea that our problems are the fault of JUST ONE party.” Really! I’m a damned Democrat and therefore know better than anyone that Democrats aint perfect, but… Wait a minute. There’s another one… “Let’s all just put the election behind us and work together.” That said, I guess these are better than this one: “I put up with Obama for eight years and said nothing. And then watched Dems do everything they could to prove Trump’s election wasn’t legitimate. So don’t expect me to be nice now!” Hold on. There’s another: “Everyone in the Capitol was an Antifa member!” Seriously, we all fool ourselves, but the ability of Trump’s supporters to deny objective reality is really frightening. Consider Trump’s management of the crisis caused by the virus. Guess the psychologists would say that once he decided it was a hoax there was for all intents and purposes no crisis to manage. Last Wednesday night, when the riots in DC were winding down, a friend of mine on FB threw out one of those manufactured exposes that purports to prove that Antifa members were behind all of the bad stuff. I, with much diplomacy, countered with a link that proved he had dealt fake news. He replied thusly: “You need to stop drinking the Koolaid.” I think we’re doomed.
bunrabbit99 almost 4 years ago
too bad these strips have to be written so far in advance. makes this irrelevant.
GreggW Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Blood on his hands. That applies to just about every US president.
Treedodger almost 4 years ago
That sure looks like a diaper in the 4th panel.
cbedda almost 4 years ago
Could someone please explain to me why, instead of whining about the 25th amendment and impeachment, the police did not just arrest him on the spot for inciting a riot and sedition? A day in jail would have been a good photo op. Also why would any Maga still believe in him when he said he would lead the march and instead left the march. Straight forward betrayal of his followers. Also why didn’t they pick up Rudy and Jr.? Neither of them have presidential teflon. Why are they not in jail right now?
notmoving Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Amazing. You just made a fat joke. Because fat-shaming is fine if it’s at the expense of someone we don’t like.
mistercatworks almost 4 years ago
It looks like fomenting insurrection became his new hobby. I hope social media has taken away enough of his dangerous “toys” to put a stop to that.
jakko1 almost 4 years ago
I think, deep down, that The Donald would like to have been a stand up comic with an adoring audience. A Vaudevillian or at the summer Catskills circuit of yore for example. The problem is he has NO sense of humor, only an awkward body language, gestures, goofy smiles and smirks. There wouldn’t have been enough money in it as well; and wealth, or at least the appearance of wealth, has always been the paramount requirement for his self image.
snappyboy almost 4 years ago
Garry…you drew the hands too big! Also, what’s to stop him from pardoning all of the protesters?
summerdog almost 4 years ago
If the virus showed up next to me, I’d whack it few times with my best driver!
admiree2 almost 4 years ago
Sleep Joe is earning that derisive label if he does not wake up. He is doing what some of us feared by talking about unity and moving forward and by not backing impeachment with conviction. It’s playing into the hands of the American Nazi Movement.
I had to hold my nose out of necessity to vote Democratic last November which was the first time in 28 years to vote for either major party candidate. In 2022 and 2024 I can abstain again or find a “liberal” GOOPer. Ignore the very numerous middle-of-the-road middle class fairness-for-all demographic again Dems and you get sent back to wandering the meaningless existence of the minority.
The other actions that have to be taken is to expel the Dirty Seven Senators who supported the objections to certification AFTER the insurrection, AND to censure every house member who did the same. If that did not send a message to anyone wanting to overthrow our Democracy by supporting insurrectionists and nullifying the most secure and fair election in US history then I do not know what would.
[Senators have longer terms and are supposed to be held to a higher standard. House members are powerless to deny the submitted state certifications without a Senator.]
Duka almost 4 years ago
PELE! That’s what his caddies call Trump behind his back, As shown in the third panel.
dlaemmerhirt999 almost 4 years ago
The blood is a VERY nice touch, Mr. Trudeau!
SukieCrandall Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Arnold Schwarzenegger released a WONDERFUL STATEMENT just a short while ago:
https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1348249481284874240
Or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_P-0I6sAck&feature=emb_imp_woyt
Be sure to click off the muting icon. For me it was in the open access Twitter one but not the YouTube one.
Sometimes all that it takes for a good nation to fall to dictatorship is not complicit agreement but complacent silence. It does not matter if that silence is from fear caused by intimidation because once authoritarians win then the fear will truly be far greater.
JenSolo02 almost 4 years ago
Given the week we have had, this has lost its humor…
Godfreydaniel almost 4 years ago
Li’l Donnie is, as a matter of objective reality, a sociopath with no conscience. Forget 350,000 deaths (the number he himself is responsible for, because of his imbecility, dishonesty, cowardice, and insanity, is over 300,000). Li’l Donnie wouldn’t have cared if ten or twenty MILLION people had died, if that had helped him to win the election. And, for Trump fluffers, that would be ten or twenty million WHITE folks—for Trump, it wouldn’t have mattered the tenth part of a damn.
Dan Collins creator almost 4 years ago
Nice use of red!
Godfreydaniel almost 4 years ago
Am I alone in hoping that Trump’s owner, our enemy Vlad Putin, will go ahead and release the kompromat he has on Li’l Donnie, just for the sheer raw hell of it?
shamest Premium Member almost 4 years ago
4th-panel shoot was something I glad I did not see eating breakfast.
Walter Kocker almost 4 years ago
Please do watch this address by Governor Schwartzenegger.
His response to America’s Kristalltag is excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_P-0I6sAck
See? SOME Republicans have class . . .
MoeyTehr almost 4 years ago
Garry undoubtedly wrote this before this week’s horrific events but today’s strip is quite profound.
The bloody hands motif he’s been doing for months is all the more striking now.
briangj2 almost 4 years ago
“A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.”
All’s Well That Ends Well (Act 3, Scene 6)
Solaricious Premium Member almost 4 years ago
OMG – I’ll bet my entire 401K that Donald Trump has never let anyone play through in his entire life. (For the non-golfers out there, allowing someone to play through is a sign of respect and consideration when your slow play is holding them up)
TheWildSow almost 4 years ago
Half right?
willie_mctell almost 4 years ago
Avoid the boring stuff at all costs.
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member almost 4 years ago
However it happens, Trump is no longer in office by Jan 20.
Pence becomes POTUS and pardons Trump.
Talk about nightmares.
Call me Ishmael almost 4 years ago
BTW, both General Mattis and General Kelly have now criticized or ridiculed the draft dodger in chief. General Milley has found it necessary to reassure Congress of the military’s political neutrality. The support for Trump is among the enlisted ranks- the least educated in uniform. I was an enlisted man, but I was always troubled by the gullibility of my brothers in arms. Usually good hearted, but naive. Susceptible to Trump’s lies. Scary.
TMO1 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
This strip must have been written and drawn long before the events of this week. I hope next Sunday’s strip shows what Trudeau must really think of Benedict Donald’s treasonous behavior this week. The blood on his hands should show very prominently in it.
T Smith almost 4 years ago
He doesn’t even have golf… he’s afraid to leave the White House, lest he get arrested.
thedogesl Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Golf. Or insurrection. Decisions, decisions….
SwimsWithSharks almost 4 years ago
Nice. PGA has said no more tournaments at Trump courses.
Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I don’t think that Garry Trudeau does his own coloring, but I wonder if he has to give special instructions to the person who does about how to show that fake orange skin tone wrapping around only the front of Disaster Pumpkin’s skull.
STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member almost 4 years ago
The blood on his hands is a gruesome but accurate touch.
rionmorrison69 almost 4 years ago
He must have drawn this before 01/06/2021.
bryan42 almost 4 years ago
’Tis a truly sad (but accurate) commentary when Grrft (or however his name is spelled) is the more reasonable of the two.
ineza Premium Member almost 4 years ago
These hands were bloodied la long time now…and Trudeau showed us! Now I’ve said he’s been crazy from the start and should’ve been restricted from social media! Unfortunately no one could or can’t control that! Oh and he’ll be busy, fingers crossed, doing time! This has been a shocking depressing week/time…
Davao almost 4 years ago
I never knew that I would stir up so hate. The comment was meant as a joke and the fact it old. Bring back Mike,Jonker and Duke and Honey
ktrabbit33 almost 4 years ago
You know, it used to really burn my biscuits how much time he spent at his golf clubs when he should have been doing his JOB, but now I’d be perfectly okay with him going and spending the next ten days there.
RickThwaites almost 4 years ago
He’s always got his playlist of porn. Oh wait. He was booted off of PornTube as well.
Davao almost 4 years ago
This is the first time I have posted here. I never thought I would inspire such hate and insults. I don’t think I will post again.
geekboy_x almost 4 years ago
Trudeau has REALLY gotten lazy. Those hands are WAY too large. And the belly rolls! The dude didn’t even make an EFFORT to hang them over the waistband properly. He’s just mailing it in at this point. #sad
Eric S almost 4 years ago
“I need a new distraction. Any ideas?” XD