Hungry Hungry Trumpo by Clay Jones

Trump cuts food banks Read on Substack

This was drawn for the FXBG Advance.

My editor proposed two stories for me to cover last week, and I chose both. The first was on cuts to Friends of the Rappahannock. The other was on cuts to the Fredericksburg Food Bank. Both stories are important to this area, and as it turns out, one of them is important nationwide.

After reading the story about cuts to our local food bank, I did a little search and discovered this is going on nationwide.

For example, it’s happening in Central New York, Stockton, California, York County, New York, in Missoula, Montana, Nevada, Evansville, Indiana, Bozeman, Pittsburgh, Boise, Idaho, Alabama, North Carolina, and many, many more places. Notice that this is happening in a lot of red states.

Think of all the government workers Elon has laid off who can’t afford groceries because of Trump’s recession and inflation, and now they can’t get any assistance from the food banks.

It’s not all bad news. There’s still enough money in the budget for Donald Trump’s golf trips, asshole billionaires and trust-fund babies will still get another huge tax cut, Elon will continue scoring government contracts to add to the $38 billion he’s already got from the government.

I’m so glad I got to experience the Hands-Off protest yesterday. A blog for that is coming later today.

Creative note: I drew this at Starbucks on Friday night. I wanted to complete this week’s cartoon for the Advance so I could focus on covering the DOGE protest in Washington, DC.

Now, I’m writing this blog on the train home.

Music note: I listened to Pete Yorn while coloring.

Drawn in 30 seconds: (snip-go see)