Indeed, physical print is like little messages from the past: hints about what we should or shouldn't do.
What, me worry?
Forgetting things, Alfred, worry about forgetting things.
Exactly!
It's not that his avarice and petulance was an unknown quantity back in the 1980s.
He chiselled other businesses and contracts he'd signed, decades before running politically.
He's always been a man to take shortcuts that hurt other legit businesses.
I was raised reading MAD and Bloom County, so I knew Donald Trump was famous for being an incompetent, bankrupt joke since before I was born. The MAD gag I still remember:
"THEN: He wrote books about how he got so rich.
NOW: He seems to be stuck on chapter 11."
People like him are never broke. He might have been deep in the red, but there was never a point when he had to worry about whether or not he was going to go hungry.
How can you be so stupid and not see him for what he is? Half the United States, A LITTLE OVER HALF OF US! He's pretty blatant about what he's trying to do, even with his distractions. And this is what they want? They call this great? POS!
Manhattan DA, Cyrus Vance Jr., should've done his job. He let Ivanka and Donald Jr. walk away from what likely would've been a surefire indictment for a paltry campaign contribution.
When I was a kid my mother would let me buy Mad Magazines when I went shopping with her. The only thing she asked is I give it to her when I had read it. They have always been the best satire of American political and cultural goings on.
I have always maintained he was horrible because I read People magazine in the late 80’s-90’s. I couldn’t have been the only one! But I felt for a while I was the only person that remembered what he had done!
I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
He stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project...
I am recalling seeing, I think, Valerie Bertinelli on a morning talk show (might have been The Today show) back in the 80s. She was talking about trump, and she gushed, "He's so handsome!" Even before knowing much about him, I saie "Yeah. She was pressured into saying that."
I don't know that he begged. An old cliche says that if you owe the bank $100,000 you're in trouble. If you owe it $100,000,000, the bank's in trouble.
I live in Tampa. When this jackass announced in 2015, I read an article here by these people, who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, to Trump, when he pulled some Tower scam here. They ended the article by saying, they were STILL going to vote for him. That’s when I knew we were totally boned.
This comics has been posted a lot lately. My question is the right hand caption looks photoshopped. It’s a different font and its placement is a bit off. Has anyone else noticed this? Any other sources of the original?
I always thought of him as a lying, braggodocious fuck up before he got involved in politics so how in the hell did he convince so many millions of people he's a genius.
He convinced white and white adjacent Americans that he was against all the things they fear. He gave them a champion for their hatred. He’s still a lying braggadocious fuck.
It's why he was so tight with Giuliani in his first term, that was specifically a "bite my thumb at thee" move for him. Look NY, you rejected me so I took your 9/11 guy and made him my bitch. He's a narcissist after all, rejection is an attack that requires vengeance for that lot.
Didn't need to be from New York to know how Trump was. His court cases and bankruptcies hit the news put here too. Didn't like him then. Like him even less now.
Seriously. We got the news in rural East Jesus Nowhere. I was a small kid in the very early 90’s & could tell you 2 things for certain about him. He’s gaudy. And he’s a crook. Insist your kids are knowledgeable & can discuss news, (not parrot your views). Rosemary Kennedy was right about that.
Indeed,I lived in NYC in the 80s, & even back then, he was a loser. Another reason I don't get these #MAGA people... all they have to do is look. He's been a liar, cheater, & a crook his whole career. #smh yet, they will defend him, tooth & nail!! Calling us delusional 🙄
Intentionally or not the ghost writer wrote a pattern of behavior on the con man back in 1987. Why this warning was ignored is beyond my understanding.
Pick anything felon 47 does.
Compare it to the pattern.
OTP vp
The gop knew the con man is a horrible human before it supported him. The party made him its leader anyway. The further back you look, the worse things get. OTP vp
Wow, Saint Ron, what the hell happened?? He hated Trump, and now he is backing him? Unfuckingbelievable. Add that to another sin of Donnies breaking up families. I hate him
He was one of our case studies in college - late 80s! He's long & deeply known as a joke in business (except his freakish ability to market his fraud & license his name on it.)
Agree... I qualified with mildly mediocre credit to his accidental, occasional "successes" (by way of fraud) only to placate (preemptively shut up) those who might jump in with, "But he [this or that]!"
He's less than zero in everything... except for sucking & failing upward.
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So early that the USSR was still a thing? Because the USSR was totally still a thing back then. Early 90s I'd consider possible, though for my money I'd say it was late 90s, relatively soon after Putin took power in the wake of Vodka Drunkenski's-I mean, Boris Yeltsin's death.
People in the Northeast part of the country were sounding the alarm on trump well before 2015. We knew he was a conman. People in the Midwest and South chose to believe that bullshit they saw on The Apprentice.
New York has been calling him those and many other things since the 70's. You should have heard my gram swearing at a piece on he and Fred's discrimination in rentals in 1972.
HE WAS BROKE UNTIL HE MANAGED TO WORK HIS FINAL SCAM AND GOT HIMSELF ELECTED. FOR HIM IT WAS LIKE FINDING THE GOOSE THAT LAYED THE GOLDEN EGGS. A CON MANS DREAM COME TRUE. HE'S RICHER FAR BEYOND HIS WILDEST DREAMS.
this is precious and priceless and a perfect example of how important collecting and protecting treasures of the past really is, I mean MAD Magaine, Sesame Street, Barbara Walters and Spy Mag all made reference to his corrupt business dealings means more to me than any modern media opinion
What a difference two terms of grifting makes. Remember when he was going bankrupt if he had to pay his $400+million term payment? Now he's a multi billionaire!!
The twice part makes me want to slam my head into a wall.
Like, "Yeah okay, putting my leg in the bear trap hurt like hell and it had to be amputated, but I'M FINE NOW. How bad could the bear trap be? What if the bear trap suddenly makes me rich?"
The multiple negatives make it hard to be sure, but I think he might be arguing that Trump is much more corrupt than most politicians and it’s a con to claim otherwise.
That’s why he’s a symptom rather than the cause. The political powers saw he was a useful idiot and bought the rights to his puppet strings. They make him dance for the public and the MAGA idiots eat it up. They won’t recognize they’re being played.
If it’s any comfort I am convinced the election was stolen on his behalf both times, by Russia and then Elon and probably Russia again. Somebody fell down on the election stealing in 2020. Too many people voted for the orange felon as it is, but that’s a separate aspect of the whole thing.
Oh, I remember his financial scandals very well which is why I never supported him, never watched an episode of his crappy show. He’s a horrible person.
He wants it for free, and yet, he said soldiers who die in the line of duty are suckers and losers, which is the very reason why they were presented with the Purple Heart.
We came from the side, we came from the rear, the top, the bottom, far and near and when we were finished and completed our fight, the thing that remained was a nice peaceful night! Titled: AFTER HE IS GONE!
I keep telling people to watch the documentary about him filmed in the 1990s before he was in politics. It's called "What's the Deal." It says it all.
I worked for a studio in the 1980s, we did fabric designs for trump tower. We were one of many not paid for work done.
Out here in California, I wondered why this clown was getting so much press in the late 80s. The media wanted to know what he thought about everything. I remember thinking, "Just who is this A-hole and why do we care what he thinks?" It was all that self-promotion and look where we are now!
Remember the old couple that would not sell their home to him so he could bulldoze it down and put up his tower.
He lost in court and spent the rest of his life trying to make them miserable.
I remember that clearly, every morning I’d sit to read my local paper and Trump and his dad were always in the news, at least one article. Always out to make anyone they dealt with miserable, mostly by scamming them and withholding money owed. Trump hasn’t changed just gotten worse.
There was a documentary on Netflix (?I think) about the Scots family that 🍊🤡 tried to evict whose fam had owned the land for decades, after he strong-armed the Scottish government to re-designate some protected land so he could buy it for the ⛳ course. Then he told Scots NO WINDMILLS IN YOUR OCEAN!
And now he’s strong-arming the Vietnamese government with his tariffs to push through another obnoxious golf resort that will force many farmers and others off their ancestral land.
I am surprised that Donald Von Shitzinpantz hasn't plastered this ugly cover on a wall somewhere.
And WOW, what an insult. Except he would go "My heritage is both Scottish and English, but I am proud to be a vulgarian. We Vulgars have dominated the world since the beginning."
I have an old Spy magazine in which they sent all sorts of wealthy people checks for minimal amounts like 5 cents or 9 cents, to see who cashed them and who didn't
Trump cashed every check they sent him.
(yes I know it's some junior accountant actually deciding but it was still funny
i mean it is kinda genius to choose to be born wealthier than everyone else. so much so that u can only fail up. we are all the suckers who chose to be born to poor parents.
The convicted felon business bankruptcy:
1991: Trump Taj Mahal
1992: Trump Castle Hotel & Casino
1992: Trump Plaza Casino (yes, they are different)
1992: Trump Plaza Hotel (yes, they are different)
2004: Trump Hotels & Casino Resort (yes, another casino)
2009: Trump Entertainment Resorts
There are so, so many more bankruptcies and just failures. GoTrump travel website, Trump shuttle, Trump International Hotel and Tower Vancouver, Trump mortgage, Trump university...
...and don't forget this glorious record at bankrupting the NJ casino industry; his disastrous foray into owning a football team; his slumlord record; etc; ad nauseum.
Absolutely 100% truth.
Mad, and various sciency publications were the only objective truths for me, um, actually ever.
Not newspapers, authors, Chomsky, Vidal, Plato, Socrates, Russell, Voltaire, Kant, et al, none of 'em could lay down the absolute indisputable facts in a few frames, or a page.
I truly believe the only reason the literate people who voted for him, voted for him, was to watch the world burn. the other 20% are functionally illiterate believe broadcast Barbie on fox
I remember that Spy Magazine stunt very well. Is there a check in any amount that is too small for a millionaire to deposit? Apparently not. The equivalent of picking up a nickel from the sidewalk. Why bother?
I was a subscriber back then - New Yorkers have known for fifty years that Trump is a moronic, lying scumbag. Amazing how those “do ur research” rednecks totally missed that.
Spy co-founder Kurt Andersen wrote what is still one of the most telling assessments of young Jared Kushner's business, uh, acumen. Every New Yorker who ever came into contact with either family got slimed by them, and bore witness to it, but America didn't want to listen. And still doesn't.
The most shocking thing about non-Oligarch MAGA cult members: there's a very long PUBLISHED history of Trump (& Kushner) sleaziness, poor business judgment, bankruptcies, court settlements, mob-mindset & criminality.
Yet MILLIONS of bubble-dwellers still worship this convicted felon & rapist.
He destroyed the Bonwit Teller building, a famous art-deco landmark, to build his ugly black tower in 1981. People begged him to save the building's art, so he ordered the demolition crews to destroy everything and discard it. Then he ran around suing anyone who criticized him for it.
I do know of another instance, it was a faux "Indian" casino run by some white dudes on a reservation that was most likely a front and money laundering operation for drug and weapons smuggling operations by intelligence services or at least by people connected to them
MAD, Simpsons, and other satirical publications all had him nailed, right from the very beginning. Too bad too many people couldn't & still can't sew the truth through all his lies! 🤬
I liked MAD writers too. Taught me cynicism, sarcasm. The were very witty writers. Between the drawing and writing ... I drove my parents and teachers crazy!
Bob, at the risk of sounding ignorant &/or opportunistic - do you publish your cartoons anywhere and is there any chance you'd be willing to create & share a "No Kings!" cartoon that we could use for our protest signs? All I can personally afford to offer is a nominal payment, but lots of exposure!
GenX kid here. I am so confused how so many GenX people voted for him. We were the F*CK the establishment, anti corruption, F the police, tax the rich, say no to racism, peace in the Middle East ✌🏼, and KNEW who trump was and is.
I don't really, he was out of office before I could even vote, but am guessing I hung out with a different group of people. I grew up in SF Bay and spent a lot of time in Berkeley 😂
Generation X is a cohort of entrepreneurs. That means pro-business voters, and that means Republicans. Also, Rush Limbaugh was a rising star when we were kids. And left wing progressivism was an MTV project, which had a primarily female audience. There’s a huge difference by gender in the vote.
I’ve wondered often about what happened to the Boomers. I mean, my mom is if anything more liberal than she was in her hippie days, but so many others went hard right…so weird.
Same. My mom (RIP), wasn't even a hippy, but was a Catholic Democrats and although she was a little more conservative herself, she believed in body autonomy, and that we were all created equal, even if it went against the church.
She wasn't super political, but cared about people, and was empathetic. Something lacking big time.
She encouraged me to get an education, told me I didn't need to get married if i didn't want to, and always had my back as a woman business owner. Crazy times we live in.
My mom didn't talk about the good ole days, because they sucked for her 5 brothers and sister, and her single mom. She frequently talked about food insecurity and her mom working 2 jobs.
Too many people of all ages watch Fox News which sounds like I’m oversimplifying but the right wing disinformation campaign was well planned out for decades and it succeeded
Right. Exactly. Sinclair and all right wing media. They worked together. We’re only allowed to type so many characters here or I would have mentioned that too. But yeah it dates back to the John Birch Society era and later Ronald Reagan, Rupert Murdock and the dismantling of the Fairness Doctrine.
Younger Gen X most likely, seeing how the older and mid range lost many members to overdose suicide and Street life, we saw this shit show for what it is and dropped the hell out and turned on to our bullshit {it's wide open when speaking on our bullshit}
He wanted that question asked to him with Oprah if you all ignored him in 2015 and treated him like a joke he never would have won but rating clicks and comments is all the press cares about
There were warnings for years and he was the butt of so many jokes in pop culture. I don't know how people fell for his con, but I suspect it had a lot to do with how he was portrayed in The Apprentice. Apparently, a lot of people missed or ignored those other red flags.
I don’t get it. I always thought his picture should be next to the definition of tacky in the dictionary. I used to sit in the break room with a manager I generally respected. He would go on and on about The Apprentice. I would think to myself “You seem too smart to be watching that garbage“.
Yeah same. A few of my husband's family members were really into The Apprentice and ended up voting for him. I couldn't believe it. I remember seeing him on Entertainment Tonight in a clip acting like a total entitled jackass and that was enough for me. Big abusive narcissist energy.
The problem is people think "reality" TV is real!!
It's unbelievable.
I did a "reality" show, you wouldn't believe the what came out of the woodwork and how people will believe ANYTHING they see on TV.
The 🟠💩🤡 is proof of the power of a corrupt, biased media in this nation. fox nooz started the trump cult, and now every other billionaire-owned media station have elevated that fascist con to the most powerful position on EARTH.
Nothing will change as long as oligarchs control the narrative.
Frankly I just want to see his college transcripts. Throw in his last medical checkup report and I will be on my way, that is, if he is capable of producing either.
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What, me worry?
Forgetting things, Alfred, worry about forgetting things.
Victoria
It's not that his avarice and petulance was an unknown quantity back in the 1980s.
He chiselled other businesses and contracts he'd signed, decades before running politically.
He's always been a man to take shortcuts that hurt other legit businesses.
"THEN: He wrote books about how he got so rich.
NOW: He seems to be stuck on chapter 11."
You got jokes...
Somebody watched the movie "The Dead Zone".
Then somebody concocted a scheme to support a corrupt failed businessman/celebrity and crowd surf his azz to the White House.
It was a lot cheaper than an unwinnable arms race with America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXfklsKGwBU
That paper was the
MOST IMPORTANT PAPER IN GRANDMAS OUTHOUSE
I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
He stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project...
Joel: Hey, it’s Donald Trump, he’s chasing the good guys away. That doesn’t make sense.
Tom: It makes perfect sense.
Crazy that everyone's had his number forever and he's still president.
Pick anything felon 47 does.
Compare it to the pattern.
OTP vp
OTP vp
They all knew he was a fraud, a con.. a boor
He would call local radio stations to brag about ‘trump’
White male entitlement meets pathetic small man insecurity
https://youtu.be/oQRciZXrTFk?si=nc3uUlmCP0rzijqs
On the other side-
this is exactly what they wanted & NEEDED
a person with ZERO moral scruples
a person with ZERO desire to respect the laws
a transactional POS who is easily bought & controlled
It was The Apprentice, every bit as real as Survivor and created by the same producer, that set up Trump for the presidency.
People are too eager to believe everything they see on TV.
The 180 he did when Trump was the nominee in 2016 was stunning.
My Dad is a soulless ghoul who just wants to own the libs. That's all he is, he had no morals.
We need to stop saying Trump is good at anything. Most people are just that susceptible. He’s a con-man, but not a con-artist.
He's less than zero in everything... except for sucking & failing upward.
It can be watched free on line at the link
https://watchdocumentaries.com/active-measures/
for scripting the donald
trump character
ONLY if all of these grifts aren’t ripped away during the revolution
Absolutely insane. I just can't wrap my mind around it.
Like, "Yeah okay, putting my leg in the bear trap hurt like hell and it had to be amputated, but I'M FINE NOW. How bad could the bear trap be? What if the bear trap suddenly makes me rich?"
"The real con is that...he is no more corrupt than any other politician."
They're saying his voter base doesn't care that he's corrupt because he's convinced them that it's status quo.
https://youtu.be/vtVZJ2SqVYE?si=R7iu5dEcQXf50T5m
I worked for a studio in the 1980s, we did fabric designs for trump tower. We were one of many not paid for work done.
He lost in court and spent the rest of his life trying to make them miserable.
John 8:44 Jesus tells those who are accusing him that they are children of the devil because they are liars and do not adhere to the truth.
To be used sparingly and targeted 😂
So good.
They hate him and his little balls.
And WOW, what an insult. Except he would go "My heritage is both Scottish and English, but I am proud to be a vulgarian. We Vulgars have dominated the world since the beginning."
When is the right time to say, “Hands Off?” Anytime! https://youtu.be/PolUlog1FhA?si=ZmGVU7wSGn9Ul0cO
How much do you think Trump would pay to burn it?
Trump cashed every check they sent him.
(yes I know it's some junior accountant actually deciding but it was still funny
Yes…he’s always been a scumbag.
1991: Trump Taj Mahal
1992: Trump Castle Hotel & Casino
1992: Trump Plaza Casino (yes, they are different)
1992: Trump Plaza Hotel (yes, they are different)
2004: Trump Hotels & Casino Resort (yes, another casino)
2009: Trump Entertainment Resorts
to a T!
Mad, and various sciency publications were the only objective truths for me, um, actually ever.
Not newspapers, authors, Chomsky, Vidal, Plato, Socrates, Russell, Voltaire, Kant, et al, none of 'em could lay down the absolute indisputable facts in a few frames, or a page.
Yet MILLIONS of bubble-dwellers still worship this convicted felon & rapist.
I tried watching a couple episodes of his stupid show that first season, but I couldn't stand it or that jerk Omarossa.
The only time I have ever enjoyed Donald Trump was when he got humiliated by Letterman.
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/13255737/five-things-know-donald-trump-usfl-experience
MAGA will never, ever believe any of this.
We knew. Most NYers, anyway.
His comment: "you know, these things wouldn't remain so painfully true and relevant today if he had any capacity for growth as a human being."
So disappointed in my fellow GenXers.
She encouraged me to get an education, told me I didn't need to get married if i didn't want to, and always had my back as a woman business owner. Crazy times we live in.
Not sure why half the country decided to remake this lying grifter.
It's unbelievable.
I did a "reality" show, you wouldn't believe the what came out of the woodwork and how people will believe ANYTHING they see on TV.
Nothing will change as long as oligarchs control the narrative.
25th amendment.
right.
That Alfred E.
was a genius.