Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 28, 2015

Sounds good. What suit is trump?

Sal, give it a try and BRIDGE the gap. You’ll get through this, trust me. Get out, mingle, join 1 or 2 CLUBS. I know you have it in your HEART to do this. Like Lucy in the sky with DIAMONDS it’s your imagination that will pull you through. Hey I’m just calling a SPADE a SPADE when I tell you that years from now you’ll look back and realize that you made your GRAND SLAM and TRUMPed this doubt you have right now.

..am I the only one to think that Mike looks like a young Donald Trump?…

Who is Sal?

Ironically, his flamer room-mate is asking for one more rubber, and Sal later gets into the rubber business as Dr. Whoopee. Is this a clever example of foreshadowing?

Mike’s younger brother Benjamin aka Sal Putrid.

I think this is about where the local Utica paper quit publishing this strip on the ‘op-ed’ page and started running random political cartoons of every stripe, just to keep the natives a-boil.

Memory: the white telephone Sal is holding by the special grip in the back. Extra long cord let you walk all over the house. No cordless phones in those days.

Sal’s roommate is Chris Christie and even back then, he was messing things up with Bridge.

Later believe he sells condoms. Sal of course, not the Tripster.