Everything seems to be coming up Trump on the Supreme Court lately. From wedding cakes to the Muslim Ban to unions, the Trumpier Court is on the march. Oh, and now the President gets to pick another Supreme Court justice.
Read MoreBorn Into A Policy of Cruelty
It may be a sign of how bad things have become that we breathe a sigh of relief when the president signs an executive order that will lead to families seeking asylum being indefinitely detained. Whew. At least we’re not going to rip their kids away, scar them for life and lose them in the system. They can all be incarcerated together now.
Read MoreAxis of Allies
President Trump tweeted, “there is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.” I hope he’s right. Entering the summit in full praise mode, it seems like Trump was determined to get some great photos with Kim Jong Un and call this meeting a success no matter what.
Read MorePresidential Pardon Power Supplement
Now that President Trump and his lawyers have asserted he is above the law in legal memos and repeated tweets, it’s only a matter of time before we’re in a full-blown constitutional crisis.
Read MoreThe ABCs of Zero Tolerance
While Donald Trump longs to fire Jeff Sessions, the attorney general is doing Trump’s dirty work at the border. In truth, it’s work anti-immigrant Sessions has been passionate about for quite a while. As we’re focused on the Russia investigation and a racist Rosanne Barr, hundreds of children being scarred for life.
Read MoreFreedom Sticks
Another day, another school shooting. The plague of gun violence continues unabated across the United States. The pro-assault weapons NRA crew is changing their tune a little bit, but not for the better.
Read MoreJared, Boy-Peacemaker!
With a front row lineup that included Benjamin Netanyahu, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Mnuchin and Jared Kushner, the ceremonial opening of the embassy seemed to be the diplomatic equivalent of peeing on the bed where Obama once slept. Meanwhile, thousands of Palestinians were injured and around 60 killed in Gaza protests just a short drive from Kushner’s celebratory wackyland. Enjoy the cartoon, and be sure to visit me over on my Patreon page!
Read MoreBlowing Up the Iran Deal with Buster!
President Trump just blew up one of the most important nuclear arms control deals because he, like, wanted to. With the arrival of John Bolton and Mike Pompeo in the inner foreign policy circle, Trump was freed to unleash his inner (and outer) strongman. Never mind that the Iran deal was working, according to just about everyone.
Read MoreThe Question: Mueller Interviews Trump
Now that a list of Mueller’s questions for President Trump has leaked, we have a better idea of how much trouble awaits the president. Add that together with Trump’s inability to keep his mouth shut or stay on message and you’ve got a defense attorney’s nightmare.
Read MoreInstalling Your New Secretary of State
It looks like Mike Pompeo is heading toward an easy floor vote in the Senate, thanks to some spine-softening moves by Kentucky’s Rand Paul. Pompeo received the thumbs up (barely) from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this week so the next stop is a vote before the full Senate. We are well on our way to having an anti-gay, anti-Muslim, bible-thumping Tea Partier from Kansas as our Secretary of State.
Read MoreCohen & Cohn, Fixers-At-Law
Now that Donald Trump’s personal “lawyer” Michael Cohen is in a whole heap of trouble, each revelation may well outdo the last. By the time the various investigations into Trump and his orbit of grifters and thugs conclude, we’re going to see a lot more than old fashioned Russian election meddling.
Read MoreLie Deflector
Sigh. If only there really was some contraption we could wear that really would filter out all the lies and fabrications emanating from the Trump administration. Methinks we’re about to enter a crazier, more fast paced phase of White House mayhem.
Read MoreDrive the All-New Megalosaurus!
Scott Pruitt is even more under the microscope this week than last— but not for hastening the deaths of thousands or giving kids asthma attacks, it’s for giving his employees pay raises. He (or the staff he blames) took the additional money for the pay raises from the Clean Water Act budget. The EPA administrator is allowed thirty hires that don’t have to get White House approval.
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While everyone is focused on President Trump’s porn star escapades, EPA head Scott Pruitt is hard at work dismantling the health of the environment and human beings. Pruitt has built himself a secure little fortress, complete with a biometric door lock on his office, a soundproof communications booth with two-foot thick concrete and of course a seat in the first class cabin because it is away from those pesky American citizens who he finds so threatening.