Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 19, 2025

Darrin Bell (2019 Pulitzer) is in Sacramento jail for possessing child videos. His editorial cartoons, Rudy Park, and Candorville are gone from this site. Hopefully they can treat his Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Day.

IMO, it is a gross insult to the memory of a great man and leader that it is also the inauguration day of a rodent who is the anathema of everything Dr. King believed in!

Bet he sent the ketchup flying after he seen the cover

It looks like there is finally a cease-fire in Gaza, and the hostages will be released. Will GT do a Sunday strip on this event?

This is what America has elected. I’ve never been more ashamed for my country.

Remember, the war criminal mostly consonants and hardly any vowels is fiction , whereas the traitor Trump is real.

…and here we go with the nonsense. Four years of pointless idiocy from the man whose career is even LESS relevant than Joe Biden’s: Garry Trudeau.

On Monday it will be confirmed that the country has gone mad!!!! Can’t wait for the aliens to come and take over!!!!

Too many Americans have an insane belief in superheroes. Maybe it’s a problem with the English language? Biased in a weird way to the negative? We all know what crime is, so it’s easy to imagine someone who does enough crime becomes a criminal, then a supercriminal, and finally a supervillain. So there must be a superhero to balance it out?

Why? What’s the opposite of “crime”? No easy word for the opposite concept. It’s easy to think of examples of supervillains who have killed lots of people. Some of them lived to ripe old ages, too. But superheroes? Not so much… Notwithstanding the pictures of the orange buffoon in cape and spandex.

With all the eligible voters removed from the polls and unable to vote, it’s no wonder this abomination of a human being was able to be elected.

The magat comments about this cartoon will likely be bitter criticism of the cartoonist with NO substantive comment about the point of the cartoon.

Like always.

Well it could have been Rapist, Racist, Insurrectionist, Fraudster, Demented, Pathological Liar of the Year. (Your ordering may vary and sorry if I missed any.)

I wonder if Garry Trudeau is on “the list”.

Only one hamberder on his plate – he woofs 50 down EVERY hour . (In public, wears a five x XXL CORSET).

“Man of the Year like Hitler and Stalin…”. And IIRC Putin.

Welcome Prickly City commenters.

Mr. Trudeau has a talent for sarcasm that I can appreciate.

Etymologically ‘man’ is a person. The sexes were ‘wif’ and ‘were’.

“T-reasoning” – a useful neologism to describe a cluster of narcissistic cognitive distortions by low people in high places.

Reagan began the era of de-regulation and tax cuts, and carried the banner leading the counter-attack against the New Deal (and the Middle Class). After his mega-parties tomorrow, trump will mop up, cutting funding, eliminating the last safety nets we have. No more checks and balances in this country for the next four years (or more!). One-party rule will entrench themselves for a long time.

I’m surprised that Trudeau didn’t pick a bigger problem that poor ol’ Donny is facing. Since he is now a convicted and sentenced felon he can no longer hold a liquor license in NJ. Hopefully the laws in NJ are written such that the holder of a liquor license cannot associate with a convicted felon. I wonder what FL’s liquor license laws say?

Ya gotta be careful how you know-tow these days.

So he’s back to Trump. I guess he’s not afraid of being sent to the gulag.

Who is that kissing tRump’s ring?

Man, his hands look so… tiny.

Trudeau was actually funny in the 70s… All politicians, no matter their party affiliation, got ‘the treatment: Nixon, Ford, Carter were all skewered… But then Trudeau caught RDS… He lost all sense of reality… The man who could mock Reagan, never thought to bring back a modified version with ’In Search of Biden’s Brain’? The Trudeau of the early 70s would have jumped at the chance. But now? He’s become a woke fascist-progressive.

If you knew anything about Trump, you would know all this is a lie. I know a lot of Trump haters won’t accept this, but the proof is out there.

People’s March is a reminder not to stay quiet. If you are upset or worried, then do something about it.

It’s not treason to hate him, it is treason to support him!

Does he know how weak opening his mouth makes him sound?

And the circus rolls into D.C. tomorrow. 3 rings: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.

The TDS is becoming disabling. Reason is leaving and the Zombie instincts are taking control.

Guys and gals, back away from the idol of “Trump Hate” you have made.

The wonderful new direction of our country will benefit you greatly. Even if you don’t want to admit it.

I don’t recall it being too cold for Carter and Obama who took the oath in single degree temps and then I remember that Jimmy and Rosalyn walked the boulevard that day.

Who would have thought that tough guys like demented Fat Orange Clowns (the FOCers) are such sensitive wusses? Maybe the cold makes the bone spurs excruciating painful.

We can always hope that the orange piece of trash will fall prey to the one thing he cannot buy more of: time. And please make that time very, very short.

January 20th, Ohio State plays Notre Dame for the NCAA Football championship. The nation will be watching. So don’t kid yourself. Nobody wants to watch a boring inauguration ceremony, and nobody celebrates MLK Day.

Hey, what’s with all the TDS??? Am I the only one who appreciates all the beautiful babes in the background? No wonder birth rates are going down.

It’s not being called a “person” that makes you look weak, Chump. It’s your arrogance, elitism, and your need to kick down that does. Strong men pay their bills on time when they can afford it.

Monday January 20th, 2025 – Patriots’ Day

I note that the newspaper I get that carries Doonesbury did not carry this strip, instead they reran last weeks Zipper/Zonker strip where Zipper tries to be an old style Hippie like his uncle Zonker

I don’t like Donald Trump at all…But this type of ‘comic’ really is an ugly use of the satire medium…and it comes from a very dark view of the world similar to the place that it attempts to attribute to Trump. Worse, I think it promotes the type of tribalism that more moderate Americans are trying to move away from. If you want to make America a better place, you need to start with a better discussion.

One more day and this four year freak show is over!!!!!

Weak men always, always need to appear strong.

A man would have accepted the fact that he lost the 2020 election instead of whining about it for four years. He doesn’t throw tantrums like a toddler who didn’t get the new toy he wanted.

A man doesn’t call everyone names like a playground bully would do.

A man doesn’t spread conspiracy theories and hatred just to get his own way.

I see that after several weeks of decompressing poor G. Turdeau is back to bashing Trump, his favorite cash cow. Keep ’em coming Garry, another four years of easy money for you! Refill that tumbler of leftist tears, you are running low!

So when does Civil War 2 start?

Where is the blood on his hands? Is that commentary done?

Who’s the guy kissing the ring?

I heard a suggestion that, even if you are going to work tomorrow, turn on your TV to a channel that won’t be showing the inauguration, for viwership statistics purposes.

So that’s why it’s called menstruation

Time has called it “Person of the Year” for decades now. And it’s just like Tiny Hands to only now notice, and make it all about himself.

It must have galled the editor of Time “magazine” to have to print that.

So our daily newspaper left the first two panels out.

Dearest darlingest fellow Americans

My dear friends

There’s been some confusion with elections and I’m pissed

But of course, I’ll care about it

But of course, I’ll rise above it

For I know that’s how you’d want me to respond

Yes, there’s been some confusion For you see, our President is

Unusually and exceedingly despicable

And altogether quite impossible to describe

Orange.

What is this feeling So sudden and new?

I felt the moment I laid eyes on you

My pulse is rushing

My head is reeling

My face is flushing

What is this feeling?

Fervid as a flame

Does it have a name?

Yes!

Loathing

Unadulterated loathing

For your face

Your voice

Your clothing

Let’s just say, I loathe it all!

Every little trait, however small

Makes my very flesh begin to crawl

With simple utter loathing

There’s a strange exhilaration

In such total detestation

It’s so pure! So strong!

Though I do admit it came on fast

Still I do believe that it can last

And I will be loathing

Loathing you

My whole life long!

Dear fellow citizens, he’s just no good

How will we stand it? I don’t think I could!

He’s a felon! He’s a liar!

I don’t mean to show a bias

But this hatred feels like fire

Well, these things are sent to try us!

Poor America, he must preside

Evil man so disgusticified

I just want to tell you

He’s not on your side!

Please share my

What is this feeling So sudden and new?

I felt the moment I laid eyes on you

My pulse is rushing

My head is reeling

Oh, what is this feeling?

Does it have a name?

Yes

There’s a strange exhilaration

In such total detestation

It’s so pure, so strong!

So strong!

Though I do admit it came on fast

Still I do believe that it can last all

And I will be loathing

not going to engage with current events or news for the next 4 years. see you all in 2029!

What a bunch of sick comments.

Really nice that we don’t have to watch it.

Wow, vital stuff Gary. When you and your fellow cult members talk about Tyrants, remember how Biden just illegally tried to “affirm” an Amendment into the Constitution. I think a coiple of 23 year old staffers were having a last minute contest to see who could get him to say the stupidest thing before he leaves. Yeah, but nothing to see here. Orange Man Bad and all that. Biden trying to add a 28th Amendment by shouting? If it wasn’t so pathetic I’d say let Carl Bernstein out of his shoe box to pronounce this, “Worse than Watergate.”

Turn your TV to Nickelodeon tomorrow.

I have dream … of a monument to 21st Century GOPers, to which every American can contribute…a mountain of trash and filth, and they’d be under it

Too many other things happening tomorrow besides the crowning of the new king (in his own mind anyway) … MLK Day, my grandson’s birthday and the college national championship football game. Inauguration? So what!!!

I cant think of anything more ironic than Trump being sworn in on MLK Day

…as for the people who put this person in office, again… “I’m not saying let’s kill all the stupid people, I’m just saying let’s remove all the warning labels and let the problem sort itself out.”

I got it. Really, I do. Garry Trudeau hates Donald Trump. I’ve read him for years and knew he is on the left side of the political spectrum. Nevertheless, he was a mainstay because his humor was subtle and insightful whether I agreed with him or not. Somehow his hatred for Trump has moved Mr. Trudeau to pull out all restraints and resort to crude, childish mockery. Don’t know the man but I wonder if he is just getting old and bitter.

Deportations start this week, the new border czar has spoken. We can only cower in the corner while he gets revenge and hope that it can’t be real.

It is puzzling to me, of all the Dems on this site, no one seems to have any concern whatsoever about the trillions of dollars of national debt this country has.

He did not get 50% of the popular vote and continues to describe his election as a “mandate”. The man doesn’t even speak English.

“Felon of the Year”

“Hitler and Stalin.”

“Brutal company, sir.”

Says Trff, the genocidal madman who slaughtered millions of his own people yet is still somehow presented as “the voice of reason” compared to Trump. I rarely mention how that kind of bugs me but it does in fact kind of bug me. Admittedly, I would be unsurprised to learn that Trump harbors dreams of slaughtering millions of people in the USA and/or all over the world but it’s not as though he’s made any significant effort in that direction yet. I know, I know, it’s just a comic strip, I should really just relax, I know. :-|

Trudeau runs a Trump strip every six weeks or so. How does that constitute “TDS”? Seriously, this is a question that I would like someone to answer. Thank you.

Annnnnddddd… the cowardly Post-Gazette published a rerun – an old Mr. Butts strip – today.

I wonder how “right-wing comic strips” have treated President Biden for the past four years. I don’t care enough to actually read such strips to find out, though, so I guess I’ll never know.

“Person” is technically probably accurate. Similar to a person. Soon to be our GREAT LEADER. Leading us in one of his planned invasions. Canada and Greenland are too cold right now. Panama will probably be our GREAT LEADER’s first attack.

2 Banana head

Near the beginning of the comments on this cartoon, I predicted that the magat comments would nearly ALL be criticisms of the cartoonist and that there would be NO substantive comments from them about the point of the cartoon.

Were there ANY magat comments about the point of the cartoon?

ANY at all?

Absolutely believable, Garry. :-(

Pass

TikTok turned off its service just before midnight last night. They were not required to do this by the law that took effect, which only prohibited Apple, Google, etc., from offering the app for download. People who had the app were still permitted to use it, and TikTok was still permitted to operate. IMO the shutdown was the Chinese government playing “chicken,” seeing how “Tarif [sic] Man” would respond.

We know who blinked first. We know who turned out to be chicken. More important, Chairman Xi knows who’s the chicken. The self-proclaimed “King of the Deal” folded, just as he folded in negotiations with the guy who wrote “Art of the Deal” for him (if you don’t know the story, look it up). Anybody expecting Trump to pursue a “get tough” policy with China is going to be seriously disappointed.

Trump just faced his first test in foreign affairs, and flunked it. Not bad for a guy who hasn’t even officially taken office.

In 18 more hours, we can say goodbye to Dumb and Dumber.

Biden can eat jello in Delaware, and Kamala can prepare for being irrelevant and forgotten about in six months.

You think that’s disgusting, Trump? You’re not sitting on this side of panel #2. THAT’S disgusting.

Why couldn’t TIME make trump A$$hole of the year, it’s more fitting

Neither he nor any of his followers have a freakin clue what a real man is.

A long illustrious career in cartooning thrown away on TDS

I think it’s hysterical that he has to share his day with the awesome Rev. Dr. King AND Jimmy Carter, whose death is honored with the flag at half staff. He’s so mad he’s tinkling.

Seminudes of Don Donald. Right out where everybody can see them. Trudeau is a monster. I may never eat a cheeseburger again without flashbacks to this comic.

Is this the first president who is a convicted felon wearing a diaper and make-up?

Love the hair.

I’ll say it again; it’s a sim and a shame that The Late President James (Jimmy) Earl Carter Jr, served one only term as President, while this heathen, who’s a convicted felon and has told lies during his first term, gets a second term, to do more damage to our nation.

The GOP is a party of hypocrites!! In 1980, they had Ronald W. Reagan, (who divorced his first wife Jane Wyman and then married Nancy Davis) to run against President Carter. And then when President Bill Clinton had his fiasco with Monica Lewinsky, claimed “Family Values, Christian Values” during the 1996 mid-term election. And then in 2004, Carl Rove, knew that his boss [Dubya] would get a second term, on his record, so he sent his Cronies to Black Churches in the South to give Black Pastors money, to preach that “Dubya is a Christian”, to give Dubya a second term. Now, here we go again with ‘Chump’!!

From Wikipedia, US Presidents who made the Times Person of the Year list: “Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932, 1934, 1941); Harry S. Truman (1945, 1948); Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959); John F. Kennedy (1961); Lyndon B. Johnson (1964, 1967); Richard Nixon (1971, 1972); Jimmy Carter (1976); Ronald Reagan (1980, 1983); George H. W. Bush (1990); Bill Clinton (1992, 1998); George W. Bush (2000, 2004); Barack Obama (2008, 2012); Joe Biden (2020); and Donald Trump (2016, 2024)” In other words, most Presidents, including all (except Ford) for the last 40 years. Their designation means nothing, nothing at all. Ford, at least, achieved one thing that none of the rest of them ever did: he served as both vice-president and president without ever being elected, which makes him sounds like the Bob Uecker of politics.

What? Me worry?

When Nixon got elected President, the great cartoonist herblock said he’d stop drawing Nixon with the famous “5 o clock shadow” out of respect.

That lasted only a few months, Herblock realized he was still a bum and went back to showing him as such.

Trudeau and Rachel Maddow—-sanity in action