DarylCagle.comHere’s my Trump Valentines Day Candy. I drew a tame version and asked my followers on Twitter (@dcagle) what they through – they wanted a less tame version. Somehow, I think newspapers will print the tame version.
The spicy version:
The tame version:
Knowing that newspapers have both versions to choose from, here’s an opportunity to see if your local editor is tame or spicy.
My goal with this cartoon was to make it look like the situation is threatening to both Trump (who can have the ground fall in on him) and Mueller (who may fall).
So … who will be the first to fall, and the first to get squished, when this all collapses?
Here is Fat Mickey Mouse eating 20th Century Fox. Mmm. Good.
I drew this stupid cartoon slowly as I was distracted by the fire burning around my house. I need to pick up the pace.
12/19/17
Here is how my cartoon looked today in USA Today:
Celebrities and politicians are getting slammed with sexual harassment allegations from years ago. It must be the same in the doggie world. 
I hate to draw cartoons about crime. Cartoons about bad guys are usually lousy cartoons because they only bash the bad guys, and it doesn’t add much to the public debate to say “that bad guy is bad” in a cartoon. The sexual harassment debate is different because it looks like tribal loyalty “trumps” moral conviction. One accuser against Senator Al Franken, who accepts his apology, is a cause célèbre for Republicans who call the many Trump accusers “fake news.” The same was true of president Bill Clinton; Democrats dismissed Clinton’s many accusers as liars. It seems there are no tribes in Hollywood as accused celebrities are dropping like flies.
Here’s a cartoon I drew about Judge Roy Moore’s supporters last week. The air is thick with hypocrisy these days.
It may seem like sexual harassment hasn’t been in the news until now, when there is little else in the news – but sexual harassment is an evergreen topic with cartoonists. Here’s one I drew about Bill O’Reilly.
And here are two I drew about sexual harassment in the military.
Here’s one on Bill Cosby.
Here’s one on Trump and his infamous Access Hollywood tape.
And I’ll round this out with a couple of Anthony Weiner cartoons.
Here’s my Anthony Weiner infinity cartoon.
The story about President Trump’s awkward condolence call to the widow of a fallen soldier has dragged on for more than a week. I wasn’t going to draw about it, but as the story droned on and on, with more awkward false tweets and statements from the White House, it looks like I can’t avoid this one.
See more cartoons on the topic here. Here are a few of my favorites; the first is by RJ Matson.
Isn’t the hair nice on this Ed Wexler cartoon?
I think the image of Trump throwing paper towels to the hurricane victims in Puerto Rico, and Trump’s love of walls struck a chord with Marian Kamensky.
Sean Delonas may be our most conservative cartoonist. Here Sean shows his disgust for Congresswoman Frederica Wilson.
Our consistently conservative cartoonist, Rick McKee, seems to like Chief of Staff John Kelly’s statement, even though it contained false accusations about the Congresswoman.
Nate Beeler can sometimes lean to the right too …
Here’s one from Steve Sack.
I think this Pat Bagley cartoon is my favorite.
President Trump pulled the funding rug out from under ObamaCare, which may not have been failing before, but is much more likely to fail now. Trump supporters claim that this is to light a fire under Congress to fix the problem – more likely, it will just light a fire under the healthcare system, leaving it scorched – like a marshmallow over the campfire.
I love the caduceus symbol for medicine, with the two snakes and the little wings at the top of a pole – it is a wonderful cartoon cliché that allows me to do healthcare cartoons without words. As healthcare poses existential political issues that divide the Republicans, I’ve had plenty of opportunities to bash the elephants with caduceuses.
Obama took a bite out of the Republicans by pushing ObamaCare through congress without a single Republican vote.
Obama took a moment to gloat.
Republicans can’t agree on healthcare, and likely won’t get anything done, leading Trump to blow the system up. Perhaps congress will be more willing to clean up a big healthcare mess of Trump’s making; they can always blame it on Obama.
More likely, I think healthcare will be the issue that sinks the Republican party.
President Trump surprised the pundits and his own Republican party when he sided with the Democrats this week. Trump hasn’t been getting much from the grouchy, ineffectual Republicans, so it shouldn’t be surprising that his eye starts to wander.
That Democrat is quite a cutie.
This cartoon is similar to one I drew many years ago, when President George W. Bush was looking to jump into wars around the globe.
Men don’t change much, huh?
Back when I was a local cartoonist for the now-defunct Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, there was a disaster where a negligent captain allowed his submarine to be controlled by a stupid celebrity who rammed into a Japanese High School fishing boat, killing and failing to rescue many of the kids. I reacted with cartoons strongly criticizing the Navy and the captain of the sub – but I missed the mark. The paper had a second cartoonist, Dick Adair who drew a memorial cartoon with leis floating on the water. Dick’s cartoon was better.
When a disaster first strikes, and people die, mourning should come first. I was thinking about that with the Texas floods as my colleagues were drawing gags and cartoons criticizing Trump’s visit to the scene, or cartoons championing the first responders, I thought I should take a step back and remember Dick Adair’s cartooning wisdom with a flowers on the water memorial cartoon, this time including a cowboy hat to signify Texas. Maybe readers and editors are in the mood for gags, but I’m in more of a somber, sympathetic mood.
The news seems to repeat itself. Today President Trump announced yet another increase in troops for Afghanistan – after campaigning on getting us out of Afghanistan. Here’s the cartoon.
Look familiar? It wasn’t much different with President Obama …
Somehow I think I’ll be drawing this cartoon with each new president for another 17 years – if I live that long.
Here is Trump and the world.
Yes, that is a map of the world on the globe’s head. I always wonder if things like that are clear enough. On the black and white version I put a label on the “World”.
Labels are for sissies, but without the color globe wasn’t clearly a globe.
Hey! It is nice to be back home and drawing cartoons again! More on the way!
