In addition to 30 years of Doonsbury comics featuring Donald Trump, Trudeau also includes a handy treasury of Trump insults! Yes, you too can use 500 words from Trump’s tweets to berate others! Trudeau has captured the essence of Trump in these comic strips. In fact, like Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin impressions on Saturday Night Live, Trudeau uses the actual words of the person he’s mocking. And the subjects are actual: Trump University, Birther-controversy, Marla Maples, Trump as a middle-school bully, Trump’s bromance with Chris Christie, and much more! If you’re looking for something to laugh at this week of all weeks, Yuge! could be the answer to your humor needs. GRADE: A
Heard him talk about this at Chautauqua a couple a few weeks ago. The back cover is BRILLIANT!
Dan, you are so right! That back cover is BRILLIANT!
Maybe later, much later when it’s all just a memory.
Patti, Trump is running even with Hillary in key swing states. Trump may not fade…he may WIN!
I’ve enjoyed the ones I’ve seen but I’ve missed most of them so will definitely be getting this one.
Jeff, what’s so remarkable are the way Trudeau presents Trump’s actual words in the comic panels. Masterful comedy!
If Trump is elected….I can’t even find the vocabulary to complete that sentence. Did anyone ever imagine that 16 years into the 21st century we’d have a candidate for one of the two main political parties in this country appropriate wholesale and with no shame images and verbiage from White Bational/Stormfront/anti-Semitic websites? Just when I think the GOP can sink any lower, they manage to excavate another few inches from the pit of the sewer.
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CAN’T sinking any lower…
Sorry– it’s early and starting the day knowing Trump is up in the polls does nothing to help my mood (or, obviously, my typing).
Deb, I blame the horrible press coverage and need to make everything seem “equal” and “fair” for allowing this.
If I had my way every time Trump speaks there would be a Joe Isuzu “He’s lying” crawl and fact-check running below the screen. Frankly, anyone who says they are voting for Trump for any reason – they hate Hillary,whatever – has adequately demonstrated that they don’t understand what this country stands for and needs to return to Civics 101. If you can’t understand the consequences of electing a dictator-loving megalomaniac to the most powerful office on Earth, you should be disqualified from voting for the next four years.
Jeff, the rise of Trump just shows the divisions in our country. So many real problems have been ignored as our Government is stalled in gridlock. We are drifting into chaos!
Deb, I feel your typing pain. My fingers mis-behave, too…when I’m upset!
Deb, don’t hold back! Tell us what you really think! I think this Election is going to be an Unpopularity Contest. Both Trump and Hillary have high negatives. People seem to be voting AGAINST a candidate instead of FOR a candidate.
Update: according to Jackie, here is one of tomorrow’s speakers along with Tiffany Trump:
Kimberlin Ann Brown (born June 29, 1961) is an American actress, best known for her role as Sheila Carter in The Young and the Restless (May 1990 to May 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, August 2005 to January 2006) and The Bold and the Beautiful (May 1992 to October 2, 1998, April 2002 to November 2002, September 29, 2003 to October 10, 2003).
So let’s see:
Kimberlin Brown
Scott Baio
Antonio Sabato, Jr.
How come the so-called “high profile” (so called) celebrities who support Trump are consipicuous by their absence? Where is Roseanne Barr? Kirstie Alley? Jon Voight?
Too embarrassed to show their faces?
But…but…but, Deb and Jeff, Trump will fix everything because he told us will and it’ll be great! He never told us exactly how he’ll fix everything, though. Hmm. And he also told us great things about Trump University, Trump Institute, Trumps steaks, and so on, ad infinitum. Oh, shit! We could be in big trouble, couldn’t we?
He talks about “Crooked Hillary” all the time, yet he is the one who has gone through four bankruptcies, stiffed the working class contractors who worked for him, and is in the middle of a FEDERAL FRAUD TRIAL.
Hello? Is anyone awake out there?
OK, I apologize. I’ll stop now.
Jeff, don’t forget the scam of TRUMP UNIVERSITY!
A friend recently speculated that he’d be surprised if Trump could produce 350,000 unleveraged/unencumbered dollars. For someone who claims to be worth $10 billion, that doesn’t seem like much, but my friend says much of Trump’s supposed fortune is built on smoke/mirrors/bullying/scamming/threatening legal action/licensing the Trump name. As Gertrude Stein said of Oakkand, when it comes to the Trump fortune, there is no there there.
Deb, I agree with you. But remember Richard Nixon (my choice of WORST PRESIDENT EVER) got elected President…twice!
My newest favorite website, WHAT DONALD TRUMP LIED ABOUT YESTERDAY, challenged Eric Trump’s claim about all the money Dad supposedly gave to his (Eric’s) Foundation. As Deb said, it’s all smoke and mirrors. His “donations” are usually free rounds of golf that someone else has paid to donate to the Trump foundation, which he then regifts as a “charity” contribution and takes a tax deduction for it. The man is nothing but a grifter and a con artist.
Jeff, I suspect a lot of money gets laundered in Trumpland.
I agree, the election choices are who you dislike less. I remember when he first announced, I thought great, he’ll split the party and take votes away from Jeb Bush, who seemed to be the front runner. I remember thinking it would be good to vote for him in the primary to really split the gop. That seems like such an innocent time now.
What I see the most people seeming to support him (other than the Hillary haters) are his stance on illegal immigration. I have to say, I feel the same way about illegal immigration, it has to stop. The democrats seem to be the opposite of that. Here in Calif. we have the dream act. Illegal immigrants who graduate high school get a free pass to college. So many hospitals on border states have closed due to the emergency rooms being used for non emergency medical care. I know there are other issues trump has people are paying attention to (make America great again) but they are general statements with no concrete discussion of what he’ll do. Immigration is where he’s actually saying something, though I get the impression he isn’t distinguishing between legal and illegal.
Maggie, I agree with you. But remember: Trump has been consistently underestimated (like Nixon). There’s enough rage out in the hinterlands of America to put Trump in the White House.
Sorry Maggie, but I MUST SPEAK! Any student in California or any other decent state offers Financial Aid to students living below the poverty line. The Dream Act kids are many of the future scientists, doctors, engineers, IT guys, etc who will help this country be a lot greater than it is. Financial Aid is not a free ride by the way. As far as the Emergency Rooms go. They are being overrun by all uninsured people who are citizens as well as hard working illegal immigrants. Most illegal immigrants are afraid to go to emergency rooms in fear of being identified. The answer to that is Universal Health Care.
Let me tell you a little story. When I was a Literacy Coordinator, they sent me all over the country to America’s Choice meeting. Their headquarters is in Dallas/Fort Worth. When we were in Texas, they brought us to El Paso, I think. Anyway, it was a southern border town. The elementary schools were filled with children who crossed the border each morning in hopes of a good education. This organization worked with the schools to create an inclusion program in which all students were fluent in English by the third grade. Their scores went from the lowest in the state to the highest. Even though Texas can be a very cruel state, somehow this little corner of the state cared about the students who are likely the Dream Act kids today. You know I love you, but you looking at this from a very narrow perspective.
Jackie
Jackie, you can’t go wrong educating people. Or giving them access to health care. Denying people education and health care only creates more problems.
Jeff, thanks for that perspective!
Here in Europe most people who are intereted in the USA see Trump as a kind of horror and can’t believe the whole development in the most important nation!
Together with other things that happened right now (BREXIT, Turkey, Putin’s Russia) it almost seems that the world is drifting back into the Middle Ages, nationalism everwhere combined with hate for everything foreign, whether foreigners, LGBT, even intellectuals …
Wolf, the people of America are in the mood for Change. That could be Trump.
Jackie we have to agree to disagree. As a taxpayer, I don’t want to pay for schools for illegal immigrants, or the tons of kids who use an address in the US to qualify for school here. I have an aquaintance who works with admissions at ucsd, and the vast number of hispanic women who are admitted drop out due to family pressure. I believe she was only talking about citizens. She said they hated to admit someone only to have them drop out, often within a month of admission. I live 2 blocks from an elementary school. 6 blocks from that school is another elementary school, 2 blocks from that one is another , and 3-4 blocks from that one is another going one way, 6 blocks going another way is another elementary school. Many of these schools are recently built with blocks of apartments and houses torn down to build them. I see when i drive by many, many cars with baja california plates dropping off kids. Just think of the funds that could be used for citizens or legal residents if that as all the student body was.
My experience, and many of the bookstores I know have few hispanic customers. I don’t believe in many homes education is stressed or valued. I know that isn’t valid for everyone, but it is a fact.
Yes, there are citizens who use emergency rooms for medical care, most are homeless many are vets. The big difference is they are US Citizens.
Anyone in this country illegally has broken the law. I don’t think they should be rewarded for that.
I will not watch any convention footage. Would rather watch a movie or read. May tune into Bill Mahers coverage on HBO thou.
Steve, Bill Maher showed up on HARDBALL with Chris Matthews last week. Smart guy.
Before I clicked on your blog, I thought, “Oh boy, Cithulu week is over.” Then I saw the title of the post and thought “Darn, I wish it was a Cithulu post.”
As for Trump vs. Clinton, all I can do is cat my vote, cringe, and hope for the best.
Rick, I like “cat” my vote! YUGE! was just my attempt to “celebrate” the Republican National Convention. See, I knew CTHULHU Week would grow on you!
anything would be better than the Tdiot.
that should have been “cast” my vote…
Darn, Richard. I wanted to see you cat your vote.
Jerry, Rick’s cat is very talented. So are Bill Crider’s!
Okay, you guys asked for it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dolly-cat-president-spay-neuter_us_57813c1ce4b0c590f7e99c32?ir=Weird+News§ion=us_weird-news&utm_hp_ref=weird-news
Really nice cat! And of course spaying/neutering them (unless you want to breed them) is a very good idea – did it to all the cats that we’ve owned over the decades.
Totally OT just to lighten up the mood:
We have a young almost perfectly white tomcat called Moritz (maybe you know the 19th Century German “comic” Max and Moritz) we now call no longer Imperator but:
Maharadja …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_and_Moritz
You want shady deals? Check out the Clinton Crime Family Foundation! As bad as Trump is, I’d prefer him over Hitlery! And as I’ve said before, I’d take Cthulhu, Satan, or Putin over her, too!
Bob, a vote for Cthulhu is a vote for change…Big Change!