Not sure if any neighborhood kid has been able to trick 'r treat at the White House in the last hundred years.
Better to laugh than to cry.
Inspired by the White House's AI video of President Trump bombing No Kings demonstrators with feces and the explicit or tacit approval of his coreligionists, I've marked this drawing with an official seal and imprint reading, "This cartoon is certified as 'funny satire' in accordance with all of Speaker Mike Johnson's standards for political humor".
Sorry, just another loose cannon going off.
Three Posters for the NO KINGS Demonstrations 10/18/25
One of two posters I made for our local No Kings rally, which looked to be at least twice as big as in June. I handed this one to someone who didn't have a sign.
I used an on-line image of a variant of "The Spirit of '76" and overlaid the text on my phone, while sitting in the parking lot of a copy shop. I'm now redrawing the scene, which I'll post when done.
The second of this demonstration's posters, an adaptation of a cartoon below, Trump's ball cap replaced by a crown.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and his co-religionists claimed No Kings, which they relabeled "Hate America," was funded by George Soros and staffed by paid provocateurs. The millions of peaceful participants and homemade signs belied their lies. [Psst, George, where's my check?]
My contribution used in the Washington, DC, rally by a volunteer group of historians protesting conforming the Smithsonian Institution to the new partisan political correctness.
Draw your own conclusions.
This admittedly "if only" cartoon shows Lady Liberty, holding the Constitution, giving Trump and by implication his Project 2025 cronies the boot. Article I on her tablet empowers the congress to do that, but unfortunately the Republicans in control of both houses remain spineless and feckless. Note the shout out to Arthur Szyk, in particular his cartoon of Haile Selassie booting Mussolini.
Trump projecting, again, with the real threat to democracy within coming from within the White House. He was addressing the assembled top brass of the US military, trying to enlist them in attacking the people, cities, and democratic institutions of the United States. We pray they continue to honor their pledge to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Haven't we seen this movie before? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dragged our top military brass from around the world to lecture them on readiness, i.e., appearing fit on Fox News videos. President Trump then not briefly briefed them on their new mission, to wage war on the "enemy within" which apparently includes those saying hurtful things about him or drawing unflattering cartoons.
Am I safe to assume neither the meaning nor applicability of "E Pluribus Wampum" needs any explanation?
I suspect the World Health Organization, from which Donald Trump withdrew our membership, will eventually have to issue just such a warning to safeguard anyone who might be considering entering the United States. In the meantime travel to this country has decreased markedly.
Another reminder that Trump is no messiah, yet he's still the Leader of the Pack-yderm.
I suppose I had to do this one, but I assume the thought had crossed everyone's mind... well, not everyone.
This is not meant to imply she lacks intelligence, but there doesn't appear to be much self awareness in her words and actions.
The failures of the legacy media are legion. And, yes, Trump has done nothing to convince us he's not beholden to Putin, but give him another two weeks.
Alternate title: Donald Trump's Arrival in Hell
A malignancy always simmering on the back burner is being brought to a boil in these Benighted (vs Beknighted) States of America through the deliberate actions of the Trump administration.
Arthur Szyk's work may have inspired this cartoon, but, other than using the same historic characters, it doesn't compare with his work. Another likely source of inspiration was Herblock's cartoon on the death of Joseph Stalin showing the Grim Reaper and his scythe greeting Stalin and his sickle with the words, "You Were Always a Great Friend of Mine, Joseph."
Do tell!
Christian Nationalism is a right-wing political movement to establish alleged Christian values as national governing, social, and cultural principles. Whichever icon it embraces - you can embrace something with just one arm - its doctrines overlap those of white supremacists. [Yes, it's the left arm that's missing, and, yes, viewing it from behind would obscure that.]
As with the inaugural cartoon, Trump undercut me on the day I drew this by telling the press that no gold paint looks like real gold; you need gold leaf for that authentic imperial pretense.
Orange is the new black... or has that been done already?
This is a reminder to so-called Christian Nationalists, who sometimes seem neither Christian in their speech and actions nor invested in the welfare of the nation. I penned this couplet months prior to drawing it, which was done during the downhill slide ending with the passage of the "Big Beautiful Bill". Hence, it appears on a billboard, a common practice in rural and southern precincts.
I agree! Put him on the money. And on Mt Rushmore mooning the presidents. The Nobel Peace Prize lunacy may be a manifestation of his envy of President Obama. Do renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War and blowing up a suspected drug-running boat in international waters suggest a commitment to promoting peace?
Trump's list has only gotten longer, an uninvited incursion into every aspect of our society and culture.
I drew this early in this term, when the number of orders was in the low double digits. Now I realize he had a Costco-sized supply of paper.
I did this long before Trump turned the White House into a car lot, but it's now past its shelf life following the breakup of the First Bromance.
The dominoes begin to fall, or is it Jenga? This one was particularly painful for a lifelong reader of The Post, but then it still has a good daily lineup of comic strips.
Fast forward to his second incarnation, January 24, 2025, Trump immediately rendered this cartoon, drawn before the inauguration, inaccurate. He didn't put his hand on a bible, not even the Trump edition. Ironically, it could be argued that this proved his belief in God, whom he feared would strike him down on the spot for swearing a false oath. Still, the caption was spot on.
Flashback to this cartoon from 2020, where the grifter was there for all to see... or to embrace and be burned. Four years later, he reemerged like a backed up sewer, and an electorate still looking for simple answers got screwed, plain and simple.
No. 12 - Pete Hegseth's ill-conceived mass gathering of the military's top brass, in which he and Trump pushed their plan to prioritize the use of the armed forces against internal domestic threats - read critics of Trump - triggered this cartoon.
[Note the credit to Pogo.]
No. 11 - President Trump has decreed that all speech critical of him lies outside the bounds of free speech and is directing his Department of Just-bend-the-knee to go after it.
No. 10 - The purpose behind the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution be damned!
No. 9 - The highest crime stats are in red state cities. They are declining in many blue state cities, but send in the National Guard to intimidate voters... I mean criminals!
No. 8 - This is just not funny.
No. 7 - "The Steal" will continue until one-party rule is assured.
No. 6 - President Trample and his herd have pulled out all the stops and are toppling all the pillars of law and tradition possible to guarantee a permanent one-party rule, which of course their mouthpieces in the past have decried the opposition for doing, a handy strategy for preparing the public for its implementation by themselves.
No. 5 - Over the pleas of millions of their constituents, the Republicans have defunded public broadcasting. This may pale in comparison with the redistribution of wealth from poor and middle class citizens to the Donald and his billionaire buddies, but it is a singular attack on free speech, as well as anything not in seeming compliance with the alleged Christian doctrines of his followers.
No. 4 - Although Ghislaine Maxwell has not been pardoned as of this writing, many other felons have been while the promised Epstein files have not been released.
No. 3 - The White House and Republican Party have created and bankrolled an army of masked government agents and built concentration camps, all while showing disdain for the law. This belies their oaths to "support and defend the Constitution... against all enemies, foreign and domestic." The president's oath doesn't list the enemies, but neither does it license him to become one.
No. 2, literally - Apparently, Trump's minions, including his press secretary, don't know that flaunting the Constitution and blatantly performing your corrupt acts in public view do not meet the definition of transparency.
No. 1 - Senator Joni Ernst (R - Iowa) doubled down on her response to constituents' concerns that people would die from proposed cuts to Medicaid and food assistance - "Well, we are all going to die" - with an un-apology pitching Christianity for those desiring eternal and everlasting life. The reaction may have been a "Come to Jesus" moment for her, prompting her decision to not run again.