Tom Toles for April 15, 2019

An authoritarian dictator is only appealing to those who think that he hates the same people that an anti-democratic, anti-American .alt-reality propaganda machine tells them are the root of all evil … because they advocate equal opportunity and personal choices for all (regardless of their race, religion or gender).

Donnie’s biggest fear is we will see how NOT rich he claims to be.

When a fake, UNELECTED “president” immediately refuses to break a 50-year-old tradition of releasing tax returns (falsely claiming that all of his taxes going back for all time are still “under audit” which would not affect their release anyway) and then makes a massive overhaul of the tax system that raises tax rates on most working people but allows massive corporate welfare and ginormous tax giveaways to the few richest elites, yes, we need to see how this wealthy (nowhere near what he claims publicly, but beaucoup bucks) developer / bankruptcy artist personally benefits from his own policies.

What conflicts of interest?

What emoluments?

He is dirty as sin. If he were clean, he wouldn’t be able to get those tax returns out there fast enough.

It looks like a pen was used. I would think that it would look a lot more like Charlie Brown’s attempt at using a pen (smeared, scratched out, etc.).

Thanks Tom, just what I expected to see!!!

Doesn’t Trump do his taxes on Twitter? Then, he can’t report as much. AND the tax filings are therefore always under audit.

Can you fill out your taxes using crayons?

How did one of trumps tax promises turn out?? The one that said you could do your taxes on a post card.

Tom got this one spot on!

Republicans love their above the law president.

Follow the money.

Rather than fear-monger over people who are running in fear from something.A leader might look for the source of that driving fear,Something strong enough to drive people from their homes – just imagineAnd go make it stop.That would address any “border issue,” would it not, maybe?But we lack a leaderInstead we have bullies and Glorious Leader.Strange days indeed.

“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Thomas Paine

White House spokesperson says lawmakers aren’t smart enough to assess Trump’s tax returns. I think he is afraid that everyone is smart enough to assess them.

It would be pretty hard to find lawmakers who AREN’T more intelligent (and less senile) than Trump. And considering what an idiot Sarah Huckabee Sanders is…..laughing because I must not cry. (No, Sarah, Woody Woodpecker didn’t say that. Try again!)

I think I’ll just wait for him to “demand” something from another candidate – as he did against Barak Obama concerning citizenship, school transcripts, and even (gasp) tax returns.

Trump is a paper lion, roaring loudly in tweets as he pillages and plunders our govt. And yet even a paper lion can do damage and he and the people with him are like a foreign invasion from the inside out.

Are Trump’s taxes still under audit, or were they ever under audit? It sounds completely absurd that he would be under audit for years at a time.

Trump doesn’t file. He’s listed as a dependent on Putin’s return.

He’s definitely in the “other” category all right.