Mike Luckovich for October 25, 2019

Watch the crummy cookie crumble.

And he already ate all the cookies.

That’s right. He’s in there protecting that jar with his very life. For us.

It’s been more than three years since Michael Morell, former acting director of the CIA, warned that Trump as president would act as an “agent of the Russian Federation.” And it’s been three years since, according to a U.S. intelligence report, one pro-Kremlin proxy proclaimed that if Trump became president, “Russia would ‘drink champagne’ in anticipation of being able to advance its positions on Syria and Ukraine.”

Surely champagne corks popped this week at the Kremlin.

Lord, talk about a cookie monster, let’s crumble his sorry soul real quick.

QUICK!!! Close the lid, seal it shut, and drop it into the Pacific Ocean, right over the Marianas trench!

I remember the song (and cartoon) The Cat Came Back, change the cat to Trump. ‘The Trump came back,you thought he was a goner but the Trump came back the very next day….’ VOTE!

So tiny.

Ain’t nobody here but us cookies – nutt’n to see.

Raided the secret cookie jar and ordered pizza.

Congressman slams GOP: just guys ‘having pizza around a conference table pretending to be brave’

Bill Barr’s DOJ is opening a Criminal Investigation of its own Russia Investigation’s origins

Now take the cookie jar to the toilet; dump contents and FLUSH (as many times as necessary)!!!

And we all know what else those tiny little hands can grab and get away with.

But seriously, the ironies, conundrums, and contradictions abound in what Forever Trumpers said they wanted in a president and what they actually got with DT Trump. This is all part and parcel with the assumptions of entitlement when you put a hopelessly elitist incompetent “businessman” in the White House — really, any businessman, for that matter. Trump is the archetypical embodiment of a pampered and braindead lapdog that’ll yap and yammer for a free biscuit from anyone who promises to deliver. It’s why he is simultaneously both easy and impossible for folks like Bannon and Miller — as well as his 37.2 billion (or was it trillion?) adoring rally fans — to manipulate. He’s an undereducated, functionally illiterate, Ivy League moron totally devoid of principle, character or morality. He IS the SWAMP, writ large — the very representation of what his basketfull-of-deplorable supporters whooped and hollered for in support. Which leads me to the unavoidable conclusion that Forever Trumpers didn’t want to drain the swamp at all … they wanted to dive in for a piece of it themselves! They love the swamp, and feel perfectly at home there keeping company with all the slimy creatures.

The absolutely best thing you can say about him (so far) is “at least he doesn’t drink.” Of course, pretty soon, we’ll be able to say “At least we got him out of the White House” which will be better.

We will get him out of the White House. Right?

The Trump administration reported a river of red ink Friday.

The federal deficit for the 2019 budget year surged 26% from 2018 to $984.4 billion

— its highest point in seven years. The gap is widely expected to top $1 trillion in the current budget year and likely remain there for the next decade.The year-over-year widening in the deficit reflected such factors as revenue lost from the 2017 Trump tax cut and a budget deal that added billions in spending for military and domestic programs.Forecasts by the Trump administration and the Congressional Budget Office project that the deficit will top $1 trillion in the 2020 budget year, which began Oct. 1. And the CBO estimates that the deficit will stay above $1 trillion over the next decade.Those projections stand in contrast to President Donald Trump’s campaign promises that even with revenue lost initially from his tax cuts, he could eliminate the budget deficit with cuts in spending and increased growth generated by the tax cuts.

Here are some questions and answers about the current state of the government’s finances.

WHAT HAPPENED?

The deficit has been rising every year for the past four years. It’s a stretch of widening deficits not seen since the early 1980s, when the deficit exploded with President Ronald Reagan’s big tax cut.

For 2019, revenues grew 4%. But spending jumped at twice that rate, reflecting a deal that Trump reached with Congress in early 2018 to boost spending.,https://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/US-budget-deficit-hits-984-billion-highest-in-7-14562747.php

“Trump won’t read anything that doesn’t make him look beautiful and powerful.”

I don’t want any of THOSE cookies.

His “Tiny Mushroom”, on the other hand …