It's A Trap

For my fellow Star Wars kids

The entire world has come to know that the Oval Office is now a trap.

When Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House, Trump sprang a trap on him that included veep, JD Vance, who definitely doesn’t fuck couches. I’m glad we cleared that up.

Trump used JD as a pitbull to start the attack, and for him to come in from behind. Zelensky can be scary, yo. And it was smart as Zelesnky picked apart JD’s attack of “Why haven’t you tried diplomacy?” Zelesnky calmly gave JD a thorough history lesson.

JD and Trump were raising their voices, shouting at Zelensky as though it was his fault Russia illegally invaded his nation, and Ukraine had failed to use diplomacy to avoid it, just as Poland had failed to use diplomacy against the Nazis. Haven’t we learned anything from history?

At some point, Trump and JD realized they were embarrassing themselves and the nation, and they kicked Zelensky out of the White House. I can’t wait until we kick Trump out of the White House. Again.

In April, Trump was interviewed by Terry Moran of ABC News in the Oval Office, and Trump bullied Moran, trying to get him to accept that a fake photo was real.

“MS13” had been superimposed onto the photo Trump was showing of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man Trump illegally deported to a Salvadoran prison, with the text clearly typed on top of his knuckles. Oddly enough, Trump had shared the same photo a week before without the text superimposed. Our president (sic) is a moron.

Moran tried to direct the conversation away from the silly photo, probably trying to save Trump some further embarrassment, but Grandpa wouldn’t let it go. He kept insisting that Moran believe the obvious lie.

Trump did it again last week, springing an Oval Office trap on the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa.

Trump was showing Ramaphosa photos and videos, often of the wrong places and without context, insisting that White genocide was taking place in his nation. It’s not.

Ramaphosa, like Zelesnky, remained friendly while sticking up for his nation, and having to tell the president of the United States that he was full of ridiculous bullshit. But after Trump had ended aid to South Africa and expelled its ambassador over this lie, Ramaphosa expected a trap. There not being a trap would have been more of a trap.

Trump’s traps are not working except to show he’s a crazy old asshole. If that’s his goal, then mission accomplished. Trump doesn’t understand that other world leaders are smarter than he is. Only our nation is stupid enough to install Trump as its leader. Only Americans are stupid enough to have a system that puts the nuclear codes in the hands of its most famous idiot, who’s also an angry racist asshole.

At this point, world leaders know they’re walking into a trap. They know they’re going to be hit with lies and conspiracy theories by a crazy old man who’s suffering from some form of dementia. This isn’t just our nation disrespecting and insulting friends and allies, it’s an embarrassment. This doesn’t just embarrass Trump, who’s too stupid to realize when he should be embarrassed, like when Ramaphosa joked about wishing he had a plane to bribe Trump with. No, this embarrasses us, the American people.

Trump claimed other nations didn’t respect President Obama or President Biden, and wouldn’t respect a President Kamala Harris. But there’s no way they’re respecting this shit. They’re not laughing with you, Donald.

The next time I travel internationally, I might wear a T-shirt that says, “I voted for Harris.”

Soon, another world leader will have the trap sprung on him or her, and that person may not be as cordial as Trump’s previous victims. Someone’s going to use the trap to trap Trump. And it’s going to be glorious.

I hope I have enough popcorn.

GoComics Comment: Some of the comments I get for my cartoons from the MAGAts are really stupid. This one was posted at GoComics a couple of days ago.

Creative note: I forgot the flies, and it’s killing me.

Music note: Sananda Maitreya

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