As we head into a presidential election that may once again put our democracy through a very severe stress test, the leading Republican candidate for president is busy fundraising.
(When he’s not busy throwing around Hitler-esque slurs, that is.)
At the risk of giving away the cartoon, Donald Trump has been busy raising money by selling, well, just about anything.
Not in a desperate Giuliani-shilling-for-cigars sort of way, but in a way that really seems to be maximizing his cash haul.
Trump’s fundraising has continued to increase, with over $45 million piling up in the most recent quarter.
So even though selling mugshot-themed Christmas stockings, ridiculous books and vaporous digital products look silly, they build the cult of personality and clearly resonate with the base.
Now that Trump is selling pieces of his cut-up suit that he wore when he had his mug shot taken, is it really that unimaginable that he would offer his Most Incredible Fingernail Clippings as a bonus gift to his donors?
(I left that out of the cartoon for fear of making satire become reality.)
The old saying, “there’s a sucker born every minute” didn’t take into account that those suckers may actually put an unstable dictator in the White House.
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