#138 What a dump!

The problem with creating a (mostly) daily satirical Trump Administration comic is that the Man of Wealth and Taste and his Cabinet of Curiosities do too many satirizable things (mostly) daily for our crack ConstiToonies team to keep up with. Our annotated virtual copies of The NY Times are so covered with virtual markings that choosing among them is often impossible. And some things defy even our brilliant imaginations. Take, for instance, Trump meeting with Putin in what Trump thinks is Russia (it’s actually Alaska, which hasn’t been a part of Russia for at least a few months now) to attempt to make a deal to end the war that Russia started by invading Ukraine and which Russia has no intentions of giving up without a goodly amount of ill-gotten land for its troubles, not to mention that both tyrants in the talks are excluding President Zelensky, who may have a few ideas of his own on the subject being discussed. Where do you begin to find a joke in any of that? In the idea that Trump thinks that framing it as a deal-making expedition will make the magabros (pronounced ma-GAH-broes) ooh and aah because the one thing Trump claims to be good as is “the deal”? Or in Trump’s saying that he’ll immediately grok the situation on arrival and head for the door if he doesn’t like the beam of Putin’s smile? Or do we just duck the whole thing and just comment on the fact that the official White House portrait of President Barack Obama has just been moved to a back corridor where none of the Trump faithful ever have to look at it again? 

You see our dilemma, and we appreciate your sympathy. For now, simply let us all join together in mourning the impending loss of AOL dial-up. After next month, who’s going to tell us that we’ve got mail?