Excellent toon and blog today! Yeah, silly me - I watched (most of) it. Had to take a break occasionally just for my sanity. Yay for Rep. Al Green, boo for the rest of those wussy Dems with their little signs. I'm happy that they occasionally booed and that some walked out, but I want more mayhem and hell-raising. I'm not sure what good it will do, if any, but I think I'm just ready for a good, old-fashioned revolution of some kind. I'm not ready to go quietly into the night and I don't want to go it alone. I want to be joined by those I gave money to and voted for to join me! Trump and his sycophants all disgust me.
I always enjoy your comments! You lasted longer than I did watching the speech. I feel like these last couple of months, I've been living in Bizarro world (from Superman comics, where everything is reversed, such as "I hate beauty, I love ugliness!). One of the first things Felon did was destroy USAID. The way Rump and his cronies treated Zelenskyy was shameful!
If there's a "good, old-fashioned revolution", I'm hoping to participate.
Thank you for your kind comments, Barbara! Sometimes I feel like I'm just an old lady reliving my old hippie dreams out loud and that I should keep my mouth shut, so I'm glad someone appreciates it! LOL! <3
You and I have some things in common I'm an old lady too but I skipped the hippie thing. I married at 20 and had my first child at 21. Now, retired with grandchildren. But we think alike and that's what matters.
I’m impressed you lasted 20 minutes. Generally, I don’t watch SOTU or the “addressing of Congress” — by presidents of either party — simply because the standing ovations after every other sentence wear me out and just add more time to what is often an already long speech. Given how long The Felon’s speech was, I’m glad I skipped it. I did read the transcript on Wednesday and reading his words is almost as painful as listening to him try to speak (on occasion, I’ve searched for transcripts of his press conferences, so I didn’t have to watch them). I’m like you at this point, Clay, in that I can’t stand to listen to his voice anymore, or hear his gross exaggerations and lies, knowing that I’m going to be telling my friends who are Followers that he exaggerated and lied, and they’re going to insist he did not. What a time to be alive.
Thanks for your hard work, congrats on your speech, and I hope the leak is taken care of.
Excellent editorial cartoon Clay. I did not watch Trump bloviate. I did, however, watch Justin Trudeau speak to the American people. Great speaker, intelligent, professional, speaks fluent French as well as English, has charisma and is a leader. All the qualities Trump lacks. Trump is simply white trash with money.
The only thing I dispute here is "White" trash. It's just trash. A good friend of mine and the smartest person I know, who is also Black, argues that "White" trash is racist as it implies all Black people are trash.
I don't think the people who use it are racist. I think the term is ingrained in our terminology. I'm trying to change it.
I rarely use those two words together and when I do I always get rebuttal. I agree with you and your friend. In a better world it would never come into play. I will continue to work for a better world. But trump is more better worser than just "trash". I will find a better way to articulate that.
Excellent toon and blog. I didn’t watch any of it. I have read several of the “fact-checking” articles. Even more frightening, to me at least for that particular event, was reading about the amount of overt ass-kissing, applauding, cheering, idolization of 🍊(🍠) by the Reptilians! I think if someone just listened to a recording of it they would assume it was at a MAGAt rally!! Hitler never would have been able to carry out his evil plans without his enablers. All the way from his highest inner circle to the people who lived near the concentration camps and pretended they didn’t know what was causing the nauseating smoke 24/7. Those of us who didn’t vote for 🍊need to do more than just say: “Yeah, well I didn’t vote for him!” There does need to be a revolution ~ however our wallets or health allows! Supporting independent journalists (and I include cartoonists in that category), supporting Ukraine in ways that others can see, going to protest marches. Our democracy IS dying.
Thanks for those 20 minutes or so of watching. I skipped it entirely. Tangle had a bit of a recap and it sounds like it went about like any Trump speech.
Is there a translation of the bubble’s language, or is it just Greeking? (which is actually latining but what do Yanks know, anyway?) oh, wait, small print. What do I know, anyway…
Stop making JD's lashes look so pretty ... unless you're deliberately going for the gender-fluid look and trying to get Maybelline and Max Factor (do they still exist?) to sign on as corporate subscribers 😁.
I didn't watch "the address" but made the mistake of turning on the TV thinking that I was going to watch some documentary or travel program on one of the PBS channels. I was so startled to see his orange facial mask 90 minutes after the start of his "As-the-stomach-churns" s#!t speech, that I almost spilled my late night snack as I desperately scrambled to zap him off my tv screen. I finally understand why my son enjoys the zap features of video games. How I wish that my tv remote had some similar interactive feature for offensive life forms that pop up on my screen.
I hope that your window leakage issue has been fixed. I am dreading the costs of home repair and renovations now that the turd is again on his binge as a tariff-tyrant. Thank you for keeping us sane with your Claytoonz.😍
I'm currently out in the Texas Hill Country and had a nice discussion with someone who though probably GOP inclined, shared their belief that Musk's DOGE did not find 150 to 300 year olds getting checks based upon their experience when loved ones have died and the US government claws back $$$.
Here's a nice table to help explain from a math perspective:
2025 Today
1935 Social Security Starts
90 SS Existence
65 Example #1 age at start of SS
155 Their age today (Age + SS Ex)
80 Example #2 age at start of SS
170 Their age today (Age + SS Ex)
270 If they are now 360, their age when SS started
360 Example #3 age
I could believe that a DOGEr found some DATA in the system which indicated some people would be 150 years today, but would seriously challenge them to list out checks and dates that SHOULD be very traceable.
I just got told that a documentary about Trump gets all up in that Trump/Putin "manly gay" vibe they've got going. Which is interesting, because I reached that conclusion without knowing about the documentary.
Really, it shows. Gotta wonder how much Putin is paying the Republicans to wreck US diplomacy for the next couple of decades? And how's he getting it to them after the NRA collapsed from corruption?
I read it, but I can't find where Macron used the T-word. I did see this:
“We were at war with a dictator,” said French center-right politician Claude Malhuret of Europe’s stand against Putin. “[N]ow we are at war with a dictator backed by a traitor.”
Excellent toon and blog today! Yeah, silly me - I watched (most of) it. Had to take a break occasionally just for my sanity. Yay for Rep. Al Green, boo for the rest of those wussy Dems with their little signs. I'm happy that they occasionally booed and that some walked out, but I want more mayhem and hell-raising. I'm not sure what good it will do, if any, but I think I'm just ready for a good, old-fashioned revolution of some kind. I'm not ready to go quietly into the night and I don't want to go it alone. I want to be joined by those I gave money to and voted for to join me! Trump and his sycophants all disgust me.
I always enjoy your comments! You lasted longer than I did watching the speech. I feel like these last couple of months, I've been living in Bizarro world (from Superman comics, where everything is reversed, such as "I hate beauty, I love ugliness!). One of the first things Felon did was destroy USAID. The way Rump and his cronies treated Zelenskyy was shameful!
If there's a "good, old-fashioned revolution", I'm hoping to participate.
Thank you for your kind comments, Barbara! Sometimes I feel like I'm just an old lady reliving my old hippie dreams out loud and that I should keep my mouth shut, so I'm glad someone appreciates it! LOL! <3
You and I have some things in common I'm an old lady too but I skipped the hippie thing. I married at 20 and had my first child at 21. Now, retired with grandchildren. But we think alike and that's what matters.
I’m impressed you lasted 20 minutes. Generally, I don’t watch SOTU or the “addressing of Congress” — by presidents of either party — simply because the standing ovations after every other sentence wear me out and just add more time to what is often an already long speech. Given how long The Felon’s speech was, I’m glad I skipped it. I did read the transcript on Wednesday and reading his words is almost as painful as listening to him try to speak (on occasion, I’ve searched for transcripts of his press conferences, so I didn’t have to watch them). I’m like you at this point, Clay, in that I can’t stand to listen to his voice anymore, or hear his gross exaggerations and lies, knowing that I’m going to be telling my friends who are Followers that he exaggerated and lied, and they’re going to insist he did not. What a time to be alive.
Thanks for your hard work, congrats on your speech, and I hope the leak is taken care of.
Didn't watch it but I got the full commentary from Stephen Colbert on the Late Show. Much better than the actual speech.
Excellent editorial cartoon Clay. I did not watch Trump bloviate. I did, however, watch Justin Trudeau speak to the American people. Great speaker, intelligent, professional, speaks fluent French as well as English, has charisma and is a leader. All the qualities Trump lacks. Trump is simply white trash with money.
The only thing I dispute here is "White" trash. It's just trash. A good friend of mine and the smartest person I know, who is also Black, argues that "White" trash is racist as it implies all Black people are trash.
I don't think the people who use it are racist. I think the term is ingrained in our terminology. I'm trying to change it.
But your point is correct. Trush is trash.
I rarely use those two words together and when I do I always get rebuttal. I agree with you and your friend. In a better world it would never come into play. I will continue to work for a better world. But trump is more better worser than just "trash". I will find a better way to articulate that.
Excellent toon and blog. I didn’t watch any of it. I have read several of the “fact-checking” articles. Even more frightening, to me at least for that particular event, was reading about the amount of overt ass-kissing, applauding, cheering, idolization of 🍊(🍠) by the Reptilians! I think if someone just listened to a recording of it they would assume it was at a MAGAt rally!! Hitler never would have been able to carry out his evil plans without his enablers. All the way from his highest inner circle to the people who lived near the concentration camps and pretended they didn’t know what was causing the nauseating smoke 24/7. Those of us who didn’t vote for 🍊need to do more than just say: “Yeah, well I didn’t vote for him!” There does need to be a revolution ~ however our wallets or health allows! Supporting independent journalists (and I include cartoonists in that category), supporting Ukraine in ways that others can see, going to protest marches. Our democracy IS dying.
Thanks for those 20 minutes or so of watching. I skipped it entirely. Tangle had a bit of a recap and it sounds like it went about like any Trump speech.
Is there a translation of the bubble’s language, or is it just Greeking? (which is actually latining but what do Yanks know, anyway?) oh, wait, small print. What do I know, anyway…
Scroll down near the bottom of the blog.
You didn’t mention that the Sippy Cup says “puppet”. Maybe you left that as an “exercise for the students”. 😉
Also, I am Very impressed with your Hand-Lettering in Cyrillic script. 🫡👍👏😉 That has got to be hard.
It is so good that I was able to extract the text from a screen shot, paste it into DeepL, and get the correct Russian-English translation. 🫡👍👏😉
BTW…
🥳 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! 🥳
#🏴
Wow! I considered tracing it or even using a screen capture of the text, but just figured I should draw it naturally.
Excellent, spot-on toon and blog. Thank you.
Stop making JD's lashes look so pretty ... unless you're deliberately going for the gender-fluid look and trying to get Maybelline and Max Factor (do they still exist?) to sign on as corporate subscribers 😁.
I didn't watch "the address" but made the mistake of turning on the TV thinking that I was going to watch some documentary or travel program on one of the PBS channels. I was so startled to see his orange facial mask 90 minutes after the start of his "As-the-stomach-churns" s#!t speech, that I almost spilled my late night snack as I desperately scrambled to zap him off my tv screen. I finally understand why my son enjoys the zap features of video games. How I wish that my tv remote had some similar interactive feature for offensive life forms that pop up on my screen.
I hope that your window leakage issue has been fixed. I am dreading the costs of home repair and renovations now that the turd is again on his binge as a tariff-tyrant. Thank you for keeping us sane with your Claytoonz.😍
I'm currently out in the Texas Hill Country and had a nice discussion with someone who though probably GOP inclined, shared their belief that Musk's DOGE did not find 150 to 300 year olds getting checks based upon their experience when loved ones have died and the US government claws back $$$.
Here's a nice table to help explain from a math perspective:
2025 Today
1935 Social Security Starts
90 SS Existence
65 Example #1 age at start of SS
155 Their age today (Age + SS Ex)
80 Example #2 age at start of SS
170 Their age today (Age + SS Ex)
270 If they are now 360, their age when SS started
360 Example #3 age
I could believe that a DOGEr found some DATA in the system which indicated some people would be 150 years today, but would seriously challenge them to list out checks and dates that SHOULD be very traceable.
I just got told that a documentary about Trump gets all up in that Trump/Putin "manly gay" vibe they've got going. Which is interesting, because I reached that conclusion without knowing about the documentary.
Really, it shows. Gotta wonder how much Putin is paying the Republicans to wreck US diplomacy for the next couple of decades? And how's he getting it to them after the NRA collapsed from corruption?
If you want to be really terrified read this: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-5-2025
Macron said the "T" word out-loud. It's time we all did. God help us.
I read it, but I can't find where Macron used the T-word. I did see this:
“We were at war with a dictator,” said French center-right politician Claude Malhuret of Europe’s stand against Putin. “[N]ow we are at war with a dictator backed by a traitor.”
Apologies. I read too fast and put Malhuret's word in Macron's mouth. But I suspect he's thinking of it.