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.

On top of old Baldy, All covered with snow . . .

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.