The president is obsessed with putting his name and likeness on government objects to pretend he is being honored by a loving public.
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President Donald J. Trump is a world class pretender, grifter, and poser who lies about the reasons for his losses and embarrassments. He’s lying about winning the 2020 election. He’s lying that January 6 wasn’t an insurrection. He’s lying about voter fraud. He’s lying about his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He’s lying about his accomplishments in office. He’s lying about who pays for tariffs on goods being imported to the US. He’s lying about his health and wealth. He lies about everything.
Now that he has complete control of government and has been unleashed by the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling, he is using the government to “prove” that his lies about the election were valid, and to discredit all of the court cases that were trying to hold him accountable for his lawbreaking or rejected his arguments about voter fraud.
All of this lying and the gross incompetence of the administration have put Trump’s poll numbers in the toilet. When you put unqualified grifters in charge of the government, nothing good will ever come out of it. His “terrific people” are too busy rooting out DEI programs, being influencers on social media and cable TV, finding ways to benefit financially from their service, drinking and drugging on the job, or sexually harassing staff to have time to make sure the American people are being properly served.
The more the American people understand the depth of the corruption and stupidity of the second Trump administration, the more Trump feels the need to compensate for his falling poll numbers by finding ways he thinks will polish his legacy so that people in the future will assume he must have been the greatest president ever.
He acts like he believes all of his lies, but I don’t buy that. Deep in his soul he knows he’s a loser. He cries out for acceptance by forcing himself on others. Like celebrity magazine writer Natasha Stoynoff, whom he allegedly pushed up into a wall at Mar-a-Lago and forcibly kissed. “Beyond just the attack, she was horrified by the vulgar circumstances under which she was attacked and propositioned to have an affair,” Stoynoff’s longtime friend Marina Grasic recounted. “She was there in a professional capacity, writing an article about their [the Trumps’] happy marriage, and after the incident Trump acted like nothing happened.”
To compensate for his failures and deep-seated sense of inadequacy, he wants to put his name on government buildings and documents.
In addition to the passports, battleships, a ballroom, a triumphal arch, coins, and cards as pictured in the cartoon, he has already put his name on the Kennedy Center, the US Institute of Peace, the TrumpRx website, roads, Trump Accounts for babies, and Soviet-style banners hanging from federal buildings.
There are plans to put his name and likeness on US currency. While federal law generally prohibits the likeness of a living person from appearing on currency, the Treasury has relied on its administrative authority over “commemorative” designs and “signatures” rather than portraits to implement these changes on paper bills.
Trump is wasting time and treasure messing with everything to make himself look like a great man. It is costing the country in real dollars and the opportunity cost of not using the government of the United States to improve the lives of citizens.
While you’re here enjoying DonkeyHotey’s latest cartoon, please take a moment to read these articles on related topics:
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- Other DonkeyHotey cartoons
The cartoon above was created by DonkeyHotey for WhoWhatWhy from these images: Donald Trump caricature (DonkeyHotey / Flickr – CC BY-SA 4.0), Trump podium (The White House / Flickr – PD), Passport (The White House / Twitter – PD), Arch (The White House / Twitter – PD), ballroom (The White House / Twitter – PD), gold card (The White House / Twitter – PD), coin (US Mint – PD), coin (PBS), Trump Class Battleships (The White House / Wikimedia – PD), and background (The White House / Wikimedia – PD).
