Trump’s fascist fetish by Ann Telnaes
A huge banner of Trump is hung on USDA building Read on Substack
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Category: Cartoons / Political Cartoons
That Time of Year
Clay Jones
He Sells Sea Shells By The Sea Shore by Clay Jones
86 doesn’t mean what 47 thinks it does. Read on Substack
(I worked in restaurants from mid-70s through mid-80s. 86 means cancel or never mind, not kill. Else the call “86 99” would have been very awkward, especially because usually the kitchen only called the boss when something the boss needed to know about was occurring. You could hear a call, “99” when the boss was wanted for something, then if whatever it was resolved, or the caller made a change, it was “86 99” so the boss could continue what they were up to. So to me, this controversy is just weird, stupid, and definitely a waste of we the people’s resources, since the highest offices are sounding off about investigating. On to Clay Jones. -A)
The number 86 doesn’t mean what Donald Trump thinks it means.
Former FBI Director James Comey tweeted an image of seashells forming the numbers 8647. What that means is replace Trump. But Trump and his cult freaked out and claimed that Comey was calling for the assassination of Trump.
But 86 doesn’t mean killing someone. It simply means to replace them, or get rid of someone or something. The term started in the restaurant industry way back in the 1920s or 1930s. The term meant an item on the menu was no longer available, so they would have to 86 it. Then it spread to customers they wanted out of their restaurant, so they would 86 a customer, NOT murder the customer.
There are different theories as to why they used the number 86. Some believe it came from the word “nix.” Others believe it came from the address of 86 Bedford Street in the West Village of lower Manhattan during prohibition. An informant inside the police department would call the restaurant to warn of a police raid, and tell the restaurant that their customers needed to leave through the door on 86th Street. That became “86 the customers.”
I don’t know if those stories or theories are true, but 86 does NOT mean someone should be assassinated. It’s not a death threat or a call to kill somebody, like all the times Trump has tweeted insinuations for his goons to attack people.
A good example of 86 is when Trump fired James Comey. He 86’ed Comey. In 2020, the voters 86’ed Trump by kicking him out of office. Hopefully, in the midterms, we 86 Republicans from the House.
As we all know, Donald Trump is a hypocrite.
When MAGAts were chanting, “Hang Mike Pence” during the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, they weren’t trying to “86” Pence. They were trying to murder him.
When Donald Trump called for the death penalty for General Mark Milley, was he trying to 86 him? No, just kill him. Milley had retired, so he couldn’t be replaced.
When Trump posted a video of President Joe Biden hog tied in the back of a pickup truck, was he calling for Biden to be 86’ed or murdered?
When Trump Jr. tweeted a picture of a hammer after Paul Pelosi was attacked by a hammer-wielding lunatic, was he calling for him to be 86’ed or bashed in the head with a hammer?
What Trump is trying to do is 86 all criticism of him. The Secret Service is investigating Comey for his 86 post, which is bullshit.
In addition to howling about Comey, Trump is crying about Bruce Springsteen criticizing him, which he did from Scotland. Trump got all bent out of shape from the Boss’s criticism and went on the attack. Remember when presidents would ignore criticism from celebrities?
Trump threatened Springsteen, posting, “This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just ‘standard fare.’ Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!”
Trump is threatening Springsteen for saying, “My home America, the America I’ve written about that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration.” That sounds about right.
Trump said, “Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy − Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country.”
If Trump never liked Springsteen or his music, then why did he steal it for his hate rallies? The Boss had to send a legal notice for Trump to stop playing Born in the USA.
Trump didn’t stop there, and on the same day he was filling his diapers over the Boss’ criticism, he attacked Taylor Swift, and posted on ShitSocial, “Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s no longer ‘HOT?’“
Are we still talking about Biden having dementia? Trump’s definition of “hot” is his daughter.
In case the Secret Service is reading, I wholeheartedly endorse 8647.
By the way, Springsteen, the “dried-up prune,” is younger than Trump, and his face definitely looks better than Donald’s dried-up face covered with orange pancake batter.
Creative note: A couple of readers told me they were looking forward to my cartoon about Bruce Springsteen. But I didn’t know if I was going to do one. There are four or five other things I wanted to hit, and that I thought were more important. The Comey/86 thing was one of them. But what do you know? I found a way to get two of those subjects off my list with one cartoon.
I had a long conversation with Proofer Laura about the license plate. She didn’t know the significance. I didn’t tell her.
Music note: I listened to the Smashing Pumpkins.
Drawn in 30 seconds: (snip-go see it!)
Car Repairs
Sunday political cartoons / memes / news items. I think I held this batch to the right size.
BTO and Pork Chops
Freak Off Crypto by Clay Jones
How much Trump Crypto to keep Diddy out of prison? Read on Substack
I was reading some of my colleagues’ work this morning at GoComics, and I came across a cartoon by Gary Varvel defending Trump’s bribes (also, Gary, plane tires don’t have treads). An idiot in the comments section wrote, “So they gave him a bribe and then they gave him trillions of investments? I don’t think you know how bribes work.” The idiot doesn’t know how bribes work… or facts.
None of these three bribing nations, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, or Saudi Arabia, is investing trillions, which is a lie mentioned in the cartoon. A good way to tell if a cartoonist is instead a propagandist is when he/she rely on Trump for their research.
A lot of the “deals” Trump announced were actually made by President Joe Biden, while the rest aren’t binding, and won’t take effect until Trump is “supposed” to leave office, like that 747, Bribe Force One, won’t be ready until then either.
By the way, Qatar had been trying to sell that plane with no takers for over five years. Grifting, er, I mean gifting it to Trump will save them millions in storage fees. The entire world is moving away from that type of jet, including Qatar, which no longer includes it in its fleet of aircraft. This jet will now cost us more than its asking price to refit it.
This is like giving a dog a pork chop to make it like you, but in this case, the pork chop is a 747 jet. Also, the Qataris could have just given Donald Trump a pork chop.
What these nations really want from Trump is the arms deals and being legitimized by an American president (sic). It’s true they like Trump more than they liked President Biden or President Obama. The Crown Prince, who had Jamal Khashoggi murdered, rarely greets visitors when they arrive at the airport. He didn’t greet Biden at the airport, but he met Trump. Naturally, corrupt fascists governing monarchies without elections, who are also murderers, would love Trump. It’s like being loved by mobsters, Jason Vorhees, Jeffrey Epstein, and Roger Stone.
They also love Trump because they got a sucker who is easy to play.
Trump has been using his entire second regime to enrich himself. He’s fired the people who root out corruption in government, and then he got busy.
Our Attorney General, Pam Bondi, ruled that accepting Qatar’s gift of a jet doesn’t violate the Emoluments Clause, but she took a bribe from Trump years ago to stop investigating Trump University in Florida, and she used to be a lobbyist for…wait for it…Qatar.
By accepting the gift, Trump announced to the rest of the world that he’s open for business, and corruption is his business. If you thought his first regime was corrupt, as Bachman-Turner Overdrive would say, you ain’t seen nothing yet, B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-Baby.
In the first regime, Trump and the Trump Organization said it wouldn’t create “new” business with foreign nations. In Trump 2.0, they announced that they WILL take in new business from foreign nations, and they just secured a bunch of golf resorts and other real estate deals in the three nations Trump visited this week, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
The Trump Org. is now involved in six Middle Eastern real estate projects sponsored by Dar Global, the international subsidiary of a Saudi-based firm with close ties to the Saudi royal family. It gets worse.
Don Sniffy Jr. and his buddies have created a new private club in Washington, DC that costs $500,000 to join. It’s called the Executive Club. The purpose of the club is to sell access to Trump and officials in the regime. Remember when Republicans howled about Hunter Biden selling access to his father, and felt the need to waste a lot of our money investigating it? There’s no investigation needed here because they’re doing it out in the open.
And then there’s $Trump Crypto.
Trump used to hate crypto and has posted in the past, “I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air.”
He also said, “Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity.”
And he said that bitcoin “just seems like a scam,” and it’s a “disaster waiting to happen,” and “I think they should regulate them very, very high.”
It must be true that it’s a scam that can facilitate unlawful behavior because now, Trump LOVES crypto and has created his own. In fact, $Trump Crypto was created in January, three days before he was inaugurated, and promised to make the United States “the crypto capital of the planet.” And then the crypto industry donated $18 million to his inauguration, where donations go to disappear…which is much like how crypto works.
Foreigners are jumping to donate to $Trump, including a tiny TikTok e-commerce company with ties to the Chinese government that has zero revenue, yet found the funds to buy $300 million of $Trump Crypto, just when Trump is delaying the shutdown of TikTok in America. Now we know why the delay was instituted. Maybe that’s why he’s delaying tariffs on China for 90 days. There are 90s days to bribe Trump not to place 145 percent tariffs on China.
Follow the money. Follow the shell game.
If you need further proof that Trump is taking bribes, then listen to this: If you buy enough of $TRUMP Criminal, oops… $Trump Crypto to become one of its top 220 investors, then you’ll get to attend an “intimate private” dinner with him later this month. If you buy enough to become one of the top 25, you will win a “VIP White House Tour.” And if you give him a plane, you’ll get to spend the night with Trump in the Lincoln Bedroom, and with guaranteed spooning time.
Trump is not even hiding that he’s selling access and using the White House to grift.
According to Bloomberg, $Trump Criminal, I mean Crypto, is nearing the value of $1 billion. Did you know the value of the Trump family has increased by nearly $4 billion since January? At that rate, their value will be $32 billion by the time Trump 2.0 is “supposed” to end. Also, at this rate, by the time 2029 gets here, Trump will have eight 747s.
And finally, the Justice Department disbanded a division dedicated to investigating cryptocurrency crimes, declared that meme coins are no longer subject to regulatory oversight, and paused a fraud case against a top crypto mogul who pumped $75 million into $Trump Criminal…oops, I mean Trump Crypto.
Now we know how Diddy can beat the rap, and getting a pardon from Trump is not out of the question. According to Rolling Stone, Diddy’s people are talking to Trump’s people.
Trump has attended Diddy’s parties, which are often called “freak offs.” Tiffany Trump has attended the “freak offs.” Trump and Diddy have both said they like each other. They’ve both been prosecuted in cases involving sex or sex abuse. They were both tried in Manhattan. They have a lot in common. They’re both criminals because Trump stole classified documents and Diddy stole Every Breath You Take by the Police.
How much $Trump Criminal can Diddy buy? Oops.
I meant $Trump Crypto.
Creative note: One of my concerns with this cartoon is that it may be too subtle. Well, too subtle for MAGAts maybe.
The bribe in the cartoon was originally a 747, but I realized I hadn’t hit the $Trump Crypto bribes yet. Oops.
I meant $Trump Criminal.
Music note: I listened to some tunes today that have been remastered, and they sounded much better before the remastering. Yo, remastering MoFos. Some of us like to hear the bass.
I did not listen to Diddy.
Drawn in 30 seconds: (snip-go see it)
Friday Political cartoons / memes / news items so it won’t get too long.
Brazen Corruption
Bone Spurs meets Bone Saw by Clay Jones
How does Trump sleep? Probably with a lot of fartin’ and snorin’. Read on Substack
Donald Trump loves asskissers because he is an asskisser. That explains why his lips are constantly puckered.
During his speech in Saudi Arabia at the Investment Forum, he spent a good portion of it waxing non-eloquently about the awesomeness of Mohammed Bin Salman, the Crown Prince.
Trump said, “Riyadh is becoming not just a seat of government but a major business, cultural, and high-tech capital of the entire world.”
MBS was sitting in the audience directly across from Trump, and Trump asked rhetorically, “Mohammed, do you sleep at night? How do you sleep? Critics doubted that it was possible, what you’ve done, but over the past eight years, Saudi Arabia has proved the critics totally wrong.”
“He’s your greatest representative, greatest representative. And if I didn’t like him, I’d get out of here so fast. You know that, don’t you? He knows me well. I do — I like him a lot. I like him too much.”
The crowd applauded and giggled as Trump flirted with the man who directed the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist living in the United States for his safety. The crowd was made up of the world’s most powerful CEOs, like Jensen Huang, Larry Fink, and Sir Shit-for-Brains Elon Musk. So naturally, this audience lacked morals and integrity. What’s a little murder when it comes to making billions of dollars? These people, like Trump and MBS, aren’t the biggest fans of journalists.
I shouldn’t have to refresh your memory, but just in case, in 2018, Jamal Khashoggi was lured into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, murdered and hacked up with bone saws by Saudi agents on the orders of Trump’s buddy, Mohammed Bin Salman.
After the murder, Trump said it was a “bad event,” and went on to defend MBS. He said, “Nobody has directly pointed a finger.” That’s a lie. Our intelligence agencies have “directly pointed a finger at him.” The United Nations has “directly pointed a finger at him.”
Trump also said that MBS is “innocent until proven guilty.” But MBS will never be proven guilty because they don’t have fair trials in Saudi Arabia. The nation doesn’t have due process, freedom of speech, human rights, or elections. Those are things Trump hates, which is probably why he spent another portion of his speech whining and lying about our elections. He lied that he won the 2020 election to people who don’t hold elections.
There will never be an investigation into Khashoggi’s death in Saudi Arabia. MBS will never stand trial. This man didn’t just order the murder, but that Khashoggi be cut into pieces with bone saws. Mohammed Bin Salman is a sick murderous fuck.
When Jared Kushner, who worked directly with MBS as a White House adviser, was asked about the murder last year, he said, “Are we really still doing this?” Jared said he hadn’t seen the US Intelligence report that concluded MBS ordered the murder of Khashoggi, finding fault with it because it was made during the Biden administration.
Of course, not reading the report made it a lot easier for Jared to accept $2 billion from MBS. Jared acts like being made to feel uncomfortable about accepting a $2 billion gift from a murderer is worse punishment than being sliced apart by a bone saw.
Under the Trump regime, our nation feels it’s more important to secure arms deals with Saudi Arabia than to stand up for our American principles. Plus, those arms deals deliver a quid pro quo as the Saudi Government will conduct golf tournaments at Trump golf courses, and invest in new Trump resorts in their nation.
Just remember that all the money Trump and Jared take from MBS is blood money.
How does Donald Trump sleep at night? Probably in a bed full of KFC and Big Mac crumbs.
Did I do that? ToonAmerica, the site using AI to steal my cartoons, is down.
Why is it down? Because of this.
The thieves can’t fight my reports or those from my colleagues, so they remove the videos, avoiding copyright strikes and saving their channel from deletion. They saved the channel, but now there’s no content because all their content was stolen copyright. That’s all they had.
I’m not declaring victory yet because I don’t know if the ToonAmerica YouTube channel will start over, create a new channel, find another scam to fuck people over with, or give up. But for now, they can’t monetize the cartoons they stole, at least not on YouTube.
But TikTok is something else.
Now I have to take them down on TikTok.
AmeriSatire, the other one stealing cartoons with AI, is still up, but they’re next on my target. Thanks to my friend and colleague, Pedro Molina, I now know that they’ve stolen one of my cartoons.
That means I can file a report on them. And why did AI make Flynn a donkey?
Creative note: I almost did my bone saw cartoon yesterday, but went for the Pete Rose one instead. I think this cartoon is better and more important.
Music note: I listened to Blondie.
Drawn in 30 seconds: (snip-go see it!)
Wry Giggle…
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
By Zach Weinersmith
https://www.gocomics.com/saturday-morning-breakfast-cereal/2025/05/15
Whiner
Charlie Hustle by Clay Jones
Meet Donny Grifter Read on Substack
After being banned from Major League Baseball for life, gambler Pete Rose and others like Shoeless Joe Jackson are now eligible to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Rose was banned in 1989 and spent the rest of his life crying about it instead of offering repentance. He didn’t even stop gambling. He never helped his case, even when it seemed Baseball wanted to bring him back.
Commissioner Rob Manfred made the ruling and said, “In my view, once an individual has passed away, the purposes of Rule 21 have been served. Obviously, a person no longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game. Moreover, it is hard to conceive of a penalty that has more deterrent effect than one that lasts a lifetime with no reprieve.”
If Rose hadn’t bet on baseball, or if he hadn’t been caught, he would have been voted into the HoF as soon as he was eligible, which is five years after retirement. His 4,256 hits, 3,562 games played, and 15,890 plate appearances are still unbroken records. Across 24 seasons, Rose made 17 All-Star teams, won three batting titles, won the 1973 NL MVP, and won three World Series trophies. Rose earned the nickname “Charlie Hustle” for his aggressive style of play. Rose always seemed to find himself on base, and then the next, and then the next, until he was across home plate. He is a baseball legend. Even his gambling addiction couldn’t take away his legend.
I was excited when I heard this, not because I am a baseball fan and am in Rose’s corner. I’ve always had mixed views about Rose’s ban, and Shoeless Joe Jackson’s, for that matter. I was excited because I thought that here’s a chance I can do a cartoon that’s not about Donald Trump. And then I read how this ban was lifted.
Goddammit.
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