Jon Ostrove

Explosive Donarrhea Will we ever get over it?

Humanitarian Tricks U.S. “Special Envoy” Steve Witkoff said the following yesterday to Vladimir Putin: “…You talk so much about…Trump being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that. I commend you.”

Gilty AF: He Has No Shame Wall Street Journal headline this morning: “Trump’s Sudden Turn on Kyiv Triggers Confusion, Mistrust.” They forgot to mention “disgrace.”

Katie Learns to Read The new White House Press Secretary, Katie Zacharia, made quite an impression on her first day on the job. She scored high on sycophancy. Communications skills, not so much.

Ford’s Theatre of the Absurd Amid reports of Trump staffers looking for more landmarks to slap his stupid name on, Ford’s Theatre came up. Gross.

Unsound I’ve been on vacation, out of the country for three weeks. Things are pretty much as stupid as I left it.

Troll-in-Chief The crap that Dear Leader’s been posting on his Truth Social account the last couple of days is beyond embarrassing. There’re no words that adequately capture the idiocy of it all, one wonders what our country’s adversaries must make of it, how they might assess his mental condition.

Lake Trump

Dolly Parton One of the good ones. So sad to hear of her passing. Jolene always stopped me in my tracks. (Repost, after realizing I mistakenly posted a slightly unfinished version.)

Play Ballroom

Travels with Natalie The uproar in the MAGAverse this week over the “salacious innuendo” supposedly loaded in the phrase “travel with Natalie” was rabid. And also ridiculous. Meanwhile, Dear Leader’s threatening quip to “bomb the shit” out of an ally went largely without comment.

Donald’s Binky Over the weekend, Maggie Haberman, coauthor of the book ‘Regime Change,’ described Dear Leader’s ever-present “personal aide” Natalie Harp as “Trump’s binky.” So, I needed to figure out what that would look like.

Golden Dome Over the last couple of days, Dear Leader has been seen wearing an obvious and utterly ridiculous hair piece. I’m not sure which particular species of rodent gave its life for the cause, but the color and sheen immediately struck me as having an unnatural shimmer.

Folded The “holdout” Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee completely folded on voting to pass Todd Blanche on for a confirmation vote by the full Senate. What a surprise.

Spotted

Doublespeak Accounting When I heard the disgusting report of how the Pentagon had lowered the official death toll of the “Iran War” by four, because people who died last weekend were killed “after the cease fire,” I reacted quite strongly. Trumpism relentlessly attacks even the most simple truths.

It occurs to me that this Lindsey Graham drawing is particularly resonant in this moment.

I’ve only drawn Lindsey Graham a half a dozen times or so, but this one from 2021 kind of sums him up for me.

Madman Just quoting Dear Leader’s posting to social media late last night.

Tarnished

Gift

Happy Birthday? Uncle Sam as I drew him for his last birthday. I’ve been trying to imagine what he’d look like if I were to redraw him again for his 250th. How would he look after the additional wear and corrosion of the last 12 months? Any suggestions? Does anybody think he’d be looking healthier?

Big Yawn

Dead Duck With this absurd debacle at the Reflectin Pool, any possible pretense of Trumpist competence in any domain, no matter how elementary, is pretty much shot.

Doesn’t It, Though? It’s impossible to make any sense of what Dear Leader thinks he is accomplishing by trashing one of his own ideological allies, never mind stupidly and childishly insulting a very long-standing US ally. But here we are, and its clear that Italian PM Giorgia Meloni is pissed.

I drew this in March. Just sayin’.

Promises Kept Surprise, surprise, painting the bottom of a pool a dark color absorbs more solar radiation and promote faster algae growth. They’ve been pouring hydrogen peroxide into the Reflecting Pool trying to kill the algae which is already blooming big time, stimulated by warmer weather.

Ill, Suited

Monster Lies So, now the messaging around unproven election fraud is that it’s so insidious it can’t be proven. There is little doubt they are laying the groundwork for some massive chicanery around this year’s elections.

He’s Dreamin’! Yeah, he looks like the picture of perfect health, doesn’t he? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Corruption Eruption By many accounts, we have reached the high water mark of the corruption of the US Department of Justice this past week. It appears that even many staunch Rs in the US Senate are gagging on the “weaponization settlement” slush fund that Todd Blanche had cooked up for Dear Leader.

VIP SNORKEL The story about Kash Patel snorkeling at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor surfaced again today with more details of the FBI Director’s tasteless recreation.

BLOTUS The latest consumer price report indicates US inflation has accelerated to an annual rate of 3.8%, the highest level of inflations since May 2023. Who should we blame for that?

Kash Out More news in the category of “you can’t make this stuff up.” Yesterday, the Atlantic published a story about how the Director of the FBI runs around the country handing out bourbon in personalized, custom Kash Patel bottles.

Judge Mental The federal judiciary is being loaded with MAGA freaks. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice is offering $25K signing bonuses for new federal prosecutors. It seems nobody wants to work there. The erosion of the federal judicial system under Trumpism continues apace.

Still the Right Answer The charges against James Comey filed today is the most banana republic nonsense we’ve yet seen from the organization that calls itself the US Department of Justice. I don’t know how these assholes can even look at themselves in the mirror.

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

Ballroomina Lindsey Graham is such a lickspittle, but, evidently, one helluva dancer.

Takeaway Dear Leader immediately seized Saturday night’s events at the White House Correspondents Dinner as an opportunity to pedal his bloated ballroom vanity project. That’s the first thing I was thinking about. How about you?

Many believe that Todd Blanche is auditioning to get the permanent Attorney General post. He’s now saying the quiet part aloud, freely acknowledging that it’s the AG’s job to go after whoever Dear Leader tells him to, and then lamely asserts this is exactly how the previous administration operated.

Trump Cards

Easter Greeting ICYMI, this is a quote from Dear Leader’s 2026 Easter Greetings, posted bright & early this morning. With all those evangelicals laying those hands all over him, they just don’t seem to be getting the job done, do they? And to think, there’s lots of time for him to sink even lower.

Unbondi Love His love knows no Bondis. Why does it seem him saying “We Love Pam” is even more humiliating than just being fired?

The Sword of Donaldcles I’ve had a break, been visiting some family. I haven’t been able to avoid the news, but took a long vacation from drawing. At least I didn’t entirely miss Trump’s war. Whatya know. It wasn’t over in two weeks. And Dear Leader’s reckless threats keep on coming.

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections. snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...