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.
Read MoreLocked & Loaded Trump
As students and families head to Washington, D.C. and other cities across the country for the March for Our Lives, President Trump has a few choice words for the marchers. Trump seemed truly shocked by the horrific violence of the Stoneman Douglas school shooting. For a fleeting instant, talked sensible gun regulation, background checks and even made Dianne Feinstein beam gleefully. This time, the president was going to Make Things Happen! Then he met with the NRA.
Read MoreMAGA Staffing Solutions
Now that Rex Tillerson is out of the way, it looks like the scary fun is really going to begin. While Tillerson was happily gutting the State Department, his relationship with President Trump was deteriorating for a variety of reasons. Chief among them seemed to be that Ol’ Oilhound Rex wasn’t sufficiently “America First.”
Read MoreThe Best and Most Serious People
When Donald Trump was campaigning for president, he said, “I’m going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people.” Apparently, he meant to say the most “shady and corrupt” judging by the state of his administration. Nearly every day brings a new story of self-dealing, lies and corruption.
Read MoreGunning for Profits
It has been a stunning couple of weeks since the latest horrible outbreak of gun violence. After the brave students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida began their immediate activism, the conversation has changed. I’m surprisingly still optimistic one week after my previous cartoon.
Read MoreElectoral Gunsights
After the horrific school shooting in Florida there may some be glimmers of hope. When bright, media-savvy high schoolers become politically active en masse, there is reason to hope. The students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are making an incredible impact on the media landscape, let’s hope they have a similar impact on legislation.
Read MoreTrumpBox
The Trump White House recently released their fantastical budget plan— fantastically cruel and fantastically phony at the same time. There is basically zero chance the Trump budget will be adopted in its current form, particularly because Congress just passed and the president signed a two-year budget deal.
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Buster the Little Nuke
While we’ve all been watching dueling memos, unhinged tweets and stock market dips, the Trump administration is quietly brining us closer to nuclear war. But that’s okay, chances are it’d start out as just a small nuclear war.
Read MoreThe State of America First
A little over a year into President Trump’s first term of mayhem, most people seem to understand that there will be no “pivot” or “becoming president” for the unstable Tweeter-in-Chief. He is able to read from a teleprompter without shouting out racial slurs, which is a good thing. Unfortunately, when Stephen Miller writes your speech, you still sound like a crazy man.
Read MoreTrust Meditation for Democrats
February 8th is shaping up to be a big day in Congress. That is the day the United States’ short-term funding legislation expires. It’s also the day that DACA is fixed, disaster aid is arranged, military spending is worked out and a long-term budget agreement is finished. (If you’re reading this in the dystopian future, Feb. 8th is about three weeks away from now.)
Read MoreAlgorithm News
Facebook recently announced a major shift in how it is going to treat news on the world’s largest social network. In a series of chipper statements and videos, Mark Zuckerberg and crew announced they were going to de-emphasize posts from news publishers. Instead, Facebook is going to concentrate on “bringing people closer together” (while pushing them farther away from news).
Read MoreThe Trump Anthem
If this guy wasn’t the president I would feel really dirty doing a cartoon like this, like I’m avoiding the news and just focusing on some weird reality star. (A reality star who seems to have forgotten the words to the U.S. national anthem, or at least sings it in a very lackluster way for someone so enthusiastic about people respecting the anthem and flag!) Sigh. Granted, there are plenty of other issues out there that don’t receive an Irate Presidential Tweet or cable news Breaking News-a-thon.
Read MoreTweet-pocalypse
It’s that time of year again when climate deniers point to winter weather as proof that global warming doesn’t exist. There’s a “bomb cyclone” blasting away at the eastern United States so surely climate change is a hoax say the deniers. And, yes, it is cold and the storm sounds brutal.
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Featured
The New Year is upon us and the media landscape is filled with what-just-happened year-in-review stories. We’re a little more used to the World of Trump but there is still a feeling of shock and awe in the air, particularly after the Republican tax bill passed.