Gassy Taco

That Taco has gas

Yesterday (Friday), in a speech at one of his hate rallies at a police academy in Garden City, New York, Donald Trump said Americans who had to "pay a tiny little bit more for your gasoline" should remember that this was the cost of ensuring that "a very evil country" could not have a nuclear weapon.

Unfortunately, gas prices do not change the fact that our nation's nuclear weapons are at the fingertips of a very evil man.

And if Donald Trump believes that Americans are only paying a “little bit more” for gasoline, then he needs to go back to hiding inside the catering truck and stay there.

“For you to pay a tiny little bit more for your gasoline, just remember you’re doing it so that a very evil country cannot have a [nuclear weapon],” Trump told the crowd at the Nassau County Police Academy Center for Training and Intelligence, which is ironic since Trump doesn't possess any intelligence. “So remember that when you have to pay a little bit more, you’re at $4. It’s OK,” Trump said.

“I’ll never apologize,” Trump continued. “I did the right thing.” Trump doesn't even know why he did his “thing,” which was creating a war. Spike Lee were to create a movie about Donald Trump right now, he could call it “Do the Wrong Thing.”

During his speech on Long Island, Trump also said, “After we finish defeating Iran ... pretty soon I'll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.” What was Trump's snacking on in the back of that catering truck, mushrooms?

A president cannot create a territory of the United States by declaring it. Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as creating a war.

Trump's talking points on the Strait of Hormuz change by day. The Strait is either open, or we are controlling it, or we are going to charge a toll for it, or we are going to share tolls with Iran, or we are the ones who are blocking it, or it's about to become a territory of the United States, like it’s Guam or Puerto Rico.

Just one day earlier, during a Fox News appearance, JD Couch Fucker Vance said that reducing the cost of oil and gas was “goal number one” for the Trump administration. I thought “goal number one” for the Trump regime was to grift.

“That’s goal number one, keep oil and gas cheap for Americans all over our country,” Vance told Fox News, adding that the second goal “is to ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.” That talking point keeps changing too, as the regime claimed that they had obliterated Iran's ability to create a nuclear weapon when they bombed it back in June 2024.

It's easy for Donald Trump to tell Americans that they should just stomach paying higher gas prices when he's grifting $1 billion off the Oval Office every year he's squatting in it. Trump says it's “OK.”

Trump says he'll never apologize. I think everyone who voted for him owes the rest of the country and the world an apology.

There are 80 days left until the midterms.

Creative note: I started this cartoon two days ago, and then I put it aside for something else.

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