Tom Toles for July 13, 2020

I think it’s cute that Toles depicts him reading something longer than a flattering photo of himself. Well, okay, and a teleprompter.

I’m sure that if he were to actually read that book, he would repent, beg the public — even Democrats — for forgiveness, and change his misogynistic, homophobic, nationalist, xenophobic, fascist authoritarian ways from that time on. /s

If he wants to read something about himself he should try a proctology text.

Would it surprise anyone to find out that the 5 or 25 or 45yr old Trump isn’t much different than the 74yr old Trump?

His Fans are Now not so Smitten – {limerick}

From what his sister has written,

his fans might no longer be smitten

by the perp they have hailed, -

- when he should’ve been jailed

‘cause for office he simply ain’t fittin’.

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What a legacy. All these books will end up in the t’rump library.

The next book about Trump will come with mug shots and a group shot with his administration with lines on the wall behind showing their height.

What Jacqueline Susann could have done with Trump’s story! It would have been a blending of ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH and THE LOVE MACHINE: A psychologically warped billionaire through fraud and deceit, Ronald Eigenlob as a thinly disguised Donald Trump becomes president and takes the country into ruin. If Trump ever writes a post-presidency memoir, he might title it I REMEMBER MAGA.

I wonder why Mary Trump might have decided to become a clinical psychologist? Was it because of the weird examples in her own family? A WASP version of “The Addams Family.” But even the relationships among Gomez and Morticia and the entire cast of characters were more endearing than those of Donald and any of his wives and family, apparently. And “Thing” fits in there, somewhere. Roger Stone?

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His Base’s Mindset – {limerick}

America mustn’t embrace

the mindset which lurks in his base, -

- examples re: √ Race

and √ Covid’s pace

and √ plutocrats’ Money-chase.

… Coda: – {4 beats/line}

The Trump-era stuff which is taking place

defaces our nation; – and it’s a disgrace

that Trumpites would vote for a mental case

in whom of Ethics there’s nary a trace.

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Not to worry, his fans don’t read either.

Funny how books written by former Obama staffers aren’t nasty tell-alls….

You really don’t need anyone to flatter you, sir. The way you flatter yourself leaves others with very little left to say, doesn’t it? /s

Historians will note that trump has broken many records… and none of them in the good way.

Ally2005 gives the best reason for Trump`s mental state.

More from WaPo: Ann Telnaes for 7/13/20:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/ann-telnaes/

" … any love is good love!" – Randy Bachman, Canadian troubadour, c. 1974

Well, there may not be more books about him than about anyone else (I once read that there’d been an average of almost one book a day since Kennedy was assassinated trying to explain it), but fersher the guy’s set a world record for nicknames — almost none of them flattering — to go with his unbeatable gold-medal, blue-ribbon, world-class record of ball dropping that’s now resulted in 137,797 corpses in the 27 weeks since his Presidential Daily Brief warned “Analysts concluded [coronavirus] could be a cataclysmic event.”

The book says Trump is a heartless greedy racist psychopath who cheats constantly and has the emotional intelligence of a 3 year old.

Thanks Republicans for the perfect example of your party!

Apparently Trump hates everyone and loves spreading covid.

Toles implies that he[Trump] can read well enough to make a judgement. What planet does he live on!?

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Grouchy toward Fauci – {1.40 limericks}

The Donald is bigly grouchy

to’ard experts like Anthony Fauci, -

- because der führer

heeds an amateur

like Jared or Junior

or a stupe even loonier

whose brain is bush-league and slouchy.

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Lessee now, of the Trump books I’ve personally read: “The Mueller Report” (including ALL the footnotes! I’m stubborn that way). Also “Fear”, “Everything Trump Touches Dies”, “Running Against the Devil”, “Commander in Cheat”, “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump”, “Siege: Trump Under Fire”, and “Fire and Fury.” And I think I’m leaving out a few……..Oh, I suppose we can count Stephen Colbert’s “Whose Boat Is This Boat?” because it really cuts to the heart of the matter, and is on a level even Trump voters MIGHT be able to understand.

Silly Donald they will never be sufficiently flattering.

Is that Alfred E. Newman on the dust jacket?

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Plutocratic Vultures – {4 beats/line}

Trump eggs us on to battles ’twixt cultures,

where his army enables the Plutocrats’ vultures

to encircle then eat us Others as road kill

and do lots of things which maliciously bode ill: -

- like crippling the nation and the whole creation

for excessive, ill-gotten remuneration.

… Coda:

Tho’ it looks like the issues are “race” and “health", -

- wha’-hoppens REALLY is “wealth-gained-by-stealth".

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You’re so vain, I’ll bet you think this toon is about you…