Love The Inflation

Americans are hurting, and what is Donald Trump doing about it? He's building himself a ballroom. He's building himself an arch. He's fighting to have his name remain on the Kennedy Center. He's throwing himself a giant UFC birthday bash, which he is profiting from. How does any of that help you? The answer is, it doesn't.

When asked about affordability in the past, Donald Trump would claim it was a hoax created by Democrats. He has said that he doesn't think about Americans’ financial situations. He's referred to rising gas prices as “peanuts.” He has constantly denied that his tariffs raised prices for consumers, and has even claimed that prices are coming down when they’re rising.

But last week, when he was asked about inflation hitting a three-year high of 4.2%, Donald Trump said, “I love the inflation.”

Trump later clarified that the reason he loves inflation is that they've been sneaking oil through the Strait of Hormuz under Iran's nose. Later, in a social media post, Trump claimed that the United States military helped smuggle 100 million barrels of oil through the Strait, which, when the Strait is open, because a stupid world leader didn't begin a war of choice, 100 million barrels of oil would be about five days of shipments through the Strait.

Donald Trump is a special kind of stupid.

Now, Donald Trump and Iran have reached a deal to…wait for it…make a deal. On Friday, in Switzerland, the United States and Iran will sign an agreement that at some point in the future, they will sign another agreement. At some point between these agreements, the Strait of Hormuz will reopen, Iran will receive billions of dollars of unfrozen assets, and they will, or they won't start charging a toll for ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, and maybe, possibly, they will end their nuclear program. We are also supposed to believe that maybe they will stop funding terrorist groups in the Middle East. Whatever, it's time to start a war with Cuba now. This is a big win for the Trump administration.

We have not seen a success story like this in Washington, DC, since Donald Trump had all the algae removed from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool for $14 million in no-bid contracts. What was that? The algae is back? Never mind.

Have they tried to fill the pool with a bunch of plecostomus? I will go down to PetSmart and purchase a bag of these fish and dump them into the Reflecting Pool for a lot less than $14 million. Say, $6 million or $7 million. Quick! Somebody explain photosynthesis to Donald Trump. Don't worry about Donald Trump wasting $14 million on the Reflecting Pool. He and Elon don't pay taxes.

A lot of people said the UFC fight at the White House on Donald Trump's birthday was an example of Idiocracy. Now, so is the Iran deal, and so is the Reflecting Pool.

By the way, check this out. It's Donald Trump's approval rating in every state on his birthday. Spoiler alert: Most of them are not good. His numbers are in the minus category in states he won in 2024, such as Texas, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Arizona, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Alaska, and Iowa. They are still way up in yee-haw like West Virginia and Tennessee, where the residents are saying, "Hey, great job, President Trump, with the Reflecting Pool.

In other news, the tarp is still in front of the sign at the Kennedy Center. Donald Trump is literally pulling the wall over people’s eyes.

Creative note: This cartoon needed nine layers in Procreate. This was my second idea. Maybe you will see the first idea in an upcoming blog.

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