Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 21, 2011

The Donald summed up her “credentials” quite thoroughly, didn’t he?

Truly awesome reportage.

^^ especially in the last bubble in the last panel.

This has got to be one of the worst-timed Doonesbury strips. Trudeau is making Trump out to be a Tea Party poster boy right when his conservative-alienating side is coming out.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/club-for-growth-calls-donald-trump-a-liberal/237499/

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA! He gave money to Eliot Spitzer! Man, that’s an insult to both parties.

http://www.observer.com/2011/trump-gave-money-spitzer-and-other-observations

He also supported the Kelo decision. Eminent domain for private development is utterly heartless.

The Donald’s gonna get shot down by the Tea Party faster than a PETA protester at Outback Steakhouse.

On another note…what is it with the hair? Trudeau can’t lampoon a comb-forward, Trump’s real hair style? He has to make something up? Cartoon Trump looks like he has a miniature tropical storm hovering over his head.

^But that’s part of the joke. The Donald is a joke to any serious voter. However, he is running very high among Tea Party members in polls released yesterday.

The T-Baggers are a joke to any serious voter.

Amen, Bill Tidler Jr…. and cdward

Political cartoonists and stand up comics all gave prayers of thanks when Trump announced his candidacy.

cdward, the Tea Partiers are approving and enjoying the drama that the Donald is instigating, but they’re taking him less seriously than even GT is.

Bill Tidler, I wish you bliss, and do sincerely hope that you will continue to think that the Tea Party will be irrelevant in the 2012 elections.

sandfan, exactly. But the practical problem is, how can they spoof the Donald any more than he spoofs himself?

Now I admit Sarah might remind me of Goldie Hawn on Laugh In, But you have to remember one party was trying to offset race with gender. I mean what was the GOP to do, another old white guy?

Trump is prob a die hard Democrat.

2012 will be a close election, if he manages to pull Perot-like numbers away from Republicans, then thats a huge help to Obama.

^ That’s the plan.

“they’re taking him less seriously than even GT is.”

That’s why he’s so high in the polls, right?

Denial is not just a river in Egypt…

maybe Sarah can arrange to have a costume malfunction, like Janice Jackson, talk about cementing her pin-up cred.

Joan Rivers as secretary of state

Methinks that The Donald has just lost the “stewardess vote”.

Hey AK, I would imagine that the Club for “Growth” would not like Trump. They’re all about tax cuts for the rich. We’ve had 10 years of tax cuts for the rich, so when, exactly, is it going to create all these jobs we’ve been bleeding for the last 10 years? Oh, right, if we taxed those rich “job creators” who are enjoying ridiculously high salaries and profits while the little people continue to get squeezed over their meager slave-wage salaries, denied their pensions, and slammed on the cost of health care, they wouldn’t create all those jobs (that they’re shipping overseas to enjoy even higher profits and bonuses).

But, of course, it’s un-american to raise taxes, only a commie-loving liberal would do that… like Saint Reagan of the GOP, who did it 11 times as President, and put through the largest tax increase ever, as Governor of California.

The Teabaggers are perfectly fine with eminent domain, well, as long as it gets them what they want. Eminent domain to create greenways and public spaces? UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Eminent domain to prevent a Mosque from being built? YES! DO IT NOW!

He also has embraced their nutter belief that the President isn’t a natural born citizen, despite evidence and statements by various officials and others who have seen the birth certificate.

He’s a perfect caricature of the Tea Party, what’s not to like?

I think GT captured Donald’s hair super well! His hair is really kind of all over the place in attempt to hide bald spots. Trump doesn’t sound like a Democrat at this point, if you read anything he has to say right now. He has changed a great deal. He supported Obama a couple of years ago. But that was so yesterday. Trump/Palin– a dream ticket. For Democrats. We want all the bat s&%$ GOP candidates that we can possibly have.

Why is it the libs of my party go absolutely ballistic at the barest reference to Sarah Palin? It can’t be they fear her as the Republican candidate for president; that isn’t going to happen. Maybe because she has more of a common sense background than our current POTUS? Possibly because they fear her ability to energize the conservatives and independents? I suggest you libs spend your time and resources on stopping the outrageous spending the majority of the public voted against last November. If you don’t pay attention to that message, then 2012 will be bleak for we Democrats!

A great laugh every morning. Thanks GBT.

MSN.com was reporting yesterday that Gary Busey was backing Trump.

Now that’s a endorsement everyone is working for.

Why did the administrator refuse to post my comment? It contained no profanity or anything remotely as critical as many of the posts supporting our present POTUS.

While it’s tempting to load all the people you hate into one stereotyped basket, don’t follow Garry over the cliff on this one.

Trump hasn’t said much about taxes this time around. Economy wise, his biggest platform is when he says that everything we import from China could be made in the USA, if only the government would support it. But as far as taxes go, he’s best known for his famous 14% solution, in which he said:

“I would impose a one-time, 14.25% tax on individuals and trusts with a net worth over $10 million. For individuals, net worth would be calculated minus the value of their principal residence. That would raise $5.7 trillion in new revenue, which we would use to pay off the entire national debt [and shore up the Social Security Trust Fund].

Some will say that my plan is unfair to the extremely wealthy. I say it is only reasonable to shift the burden to those most able to pay.”

Is that Sarah Palin talking, or Clark Kent? Do you really think that philosophy will pass muster with the Tea Party? Rather than worry about what they think, it might be more prudent to worry about what the Independents think of what he’s saying. Methinks the Tea Party will research him much more thoroughly than Garry did, and they’ll see him as an opportunistic weasel. Why replace one with another?

^Don’t worry, it’s there. Five minutes before this post. Possibly GoComics site was getting a lot of posts at the same time. This was to BidenJr. Another comment came in that was written 13 min before mine and half an hour after BJr’s.

wow, the h8ters are really out in force today

good going GT

I’ve always loved your trump

Hi, I’m Sarah. Fly me!

We have a buffoon in the white house? As opposed to the Rhodes Scholar that occupied it the last two terms, right?

” We have a buffoon in the white house? As opposed to the Rhodes Scholar that occupied it the last two terms, right?”

GDub was intelligified. Hehe!

Trump wants campaign contributions so he can declare BK and use that money for more gold-plated tacky fixtures.

Oh, and The Donald doesn’t have enough hair in the front to get that Hurricane Katrina look :-)

Spamgaard:

Per the article in The Atlantic:

‘The Club for Growth was derisive about the possibility of a Trump candidacy…The club, which backs smaller government and free-market economics, cites past Trump statements in support of “universal health care” and a proposal to slap a onetime tax on individuals with a net worth of more than $10 million.’

My claim is that a lot of Donald Trump opinions won’t wash with the Tea Party once they make the light of day. He’s gotten cheers for statements regarding the one big issue - federal spending - but in these Internet days his anti-free-market ideas of the past can’t stay buried in the closet. Once the Tea Partiers hear more about Trump’s beliefs

And if you disagree with Club for Growth policies, you make my point. If you’re a Tea Party basher and CoG isn’t, and if CoG is a Trump basher, then maybe The Donald has less in common with the Tea Party than he does with, say, this comment thread.

And in what Bearded Spock universe do Tea Partiers have ANY affinity for the use of eminent domain for private development Were you NOT paying attention at all to the Kelo backlash??? I remember a lot of people in when several states - including Texas (which Obama says has always been Republican - heh, heh) - were pushing for eminent-domain-abuse laws. This sort of thing riles middle class folks like the ones that dominate the tea party movement. You work for a living, save up for a house, and one day some fatcat wants to force you to sell it to build a mall expansion or (in Trump’s case) a limo parking facility. That’s the sort of thing that kicks grassroots conservatives in the face.

Yup we had an old waterfront house in Florida, I’m talking real old, my great grandparents built it in 1902, the city decided in the 60’s to exercise eminent domain, fill in in front of it, put in a public parking lot and boat ramp for trailers and boats, gave us a lot instead of our water. Thanks a bunch. It’s still a beautiful house but we don’t own it any more. mom sold and bought a trailer…which blew away in 1994 hurricane…house still solid and standing, what a great tradeoff. Not.

oh yeah what I really wanted to say about Trump: maybe Oprah should run against The Donald…he wondered who was as big a personality as he is…LOL

Waiting for Trump to declare his Presidential Exploratory Reality Show…

@FauxBiden- Liberals don’t go ballistic at the mention of Sarah Palin, but we really can’t understand how anyone can take her seriously. Or Trump, for that matter.

AKHenderson- Trump can claim he’s a ‘born again’ conservative. Works all the time in the GOP. Also , the TP denounces government interference in property rights, except when someone wants to build a Mosque near ground zero, or when someone wants to put affordable housing in their neighborhood. Then it’s off to the courts!

Only reason The Donald is getting any coverage at all is that cartoonists love to draw his hair (or whatever alien creature lives on top of his head). Same reason the Blago scandal here in Ill-Annoy got so much national attention; the Hair was just so much fun to draw.

AK, you completely misread my statement on the Tea Party and the issue of eminent domain. I agree that they’re against it, except when it will further their goals. Google “tea party eminent domain mosque” and you’ll find out how easily they give up their ideals when it suits their paranoid hatred of anything they don’t understand.

Personally, I wouldn’t trust the Wall Street-backed “Club for Growth” any further than I could throw it. They’re shills for the very same people that causes the financial mess, took public money to bail themselves out, and paid themselves enormous bonuses for doing such a good job (there’s the free, unregulated market at its best!). They claim to embrace Ronald Reagan’s “vision of limited government and lower taxes”– is this the same Reagan that put through a 30% increase in tax revenue, the largest tax increase ever on record, as Governor of California? The same Reagan that raised taxes 11 times in office as President? The same Reagan that tripled the national debt to $3 trillion (chump change now)? Or perhaps they just embrace his vision of deregulating everything under the sun regardless of the consequences… we’re on our third enormous financial services meltdown since Reagan started the deregulation of the industry. He also accelerated the transfer of jobs overseas with his policies, helping to send the working class into a downward spiral… but at least Wall Street and Big Business are profiting.

I actually kind of like the Donald’s tax proposal. A one time tax levy, and then we can get past the incessant arguments about tax cuts for the rich which were in reality tax cuts for everyone who paid income tax. Those who paid more got more back, obviously, but in a black and white world it’s not fair for those who paid more to get more back. The best thing about the Donald’s plan though, is that it doesn’t come off as punitive in nature like most “progressive” tax alternatives do. I’d be interested to watch how many progressives would try to hide or reduce their net worth to avoid that tax. We know many conservatives would do so, that’s to be expected, but the hypocrisy of the left who make their money the same way as many on the right leads me to believe there’d be a lot of off-shoring going on among folks like George Soros.