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Danziger: Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Trumped

Danziger: Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Trumped

Jeff Danziger’s award-winning drawings are published by more than 600 newspapers and websites. He has been a cartoonist for the Rutland Herald, the New York Daily News and the Christian Science Monitor; his work has appeared in newspapers from the Wall Street Journal to Le Monde and Izvestia. He is represented by CWS Syndicate and the Washington Post Writers Group. He is the recipient of the Herblock Prize and the Thomas Nast (Landau) Prize. He served in the US Army in Vietnam as a linguist and intelligence officer, and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Air Medal. Danziger has published ten books of cartoons and a novel about the Vietnam War. Born in New York City, he now lives in Manhattan and Vermont. A video of the artist at work can be viewed here.

#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Presents The Mind-Boggling Sean Spicer

#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Presents The Mind-Boggling Sean Spicer

Glancing back over the second week of the Trump presidency, Seth Meyers noticed its duality — on the one hand, multiple constitutional crises, and on the other, mundane mistakes of mind-bogging stupidity.

Among those imbecile moments was Trump’s comment at a Black History Month event, praising the abolitionist leader and former slave Frederick Douglass as if he were a living civil rights leader. “He didn’t know Douglass was dead!”  exclaimed the Late Night host, noting that the great author, editor, and diplomat passed away back in 1895. “Yeah, keep your eye on that Fred Douglass kid!”

The coda to Trump’s ignorance came when Sean Spicer was asked by a reporter about the Douglass gaffe. If you missed his revealing response, Meyers replayed it in this segment — and wondered why this obvious incompetent hadn’t bothered to research Douglass before his next press briefing.

Speaking of Spicer, who will be a consistent source of offensive comedy gold until the day Trump finally dumps him, the White House press secretary provided many laughs when he insisted that the immigration and travel restrictions announced last week are “not a ban.” But as Meyers observes, with clips, that was precisely how Spicer — as well as Kellyanne Conway and Trump himself — had described the executive order.

And Meyers reviews the Betsy DeVos fiasco, as Trump’s designated education secretary first failed to answer questions in her confirmation hearing, and then got caught plagiarizing her replies to supplemental written questions.

Is every week going to be like this for the next four years?

 

#EndorseThis: Awakening In Trump’s America, Stephen Colbert Throws Up

#EndorseThis: Awakening In Trump’s America, Stephen Colbert Throws Up

Off the air during the week since Trump’s inauguration, Stephen Colbert returned to a dizzying situation, as a flood of executive orders — each more disturbing than the last — flew from the new president’s desk. “You get right back on the roller coaster,” cracked the Late Show host, “and start throwing up.”

But despite the brief hiatus, Colbert hasn’t lost a step. How would Kellyanne Conway describe the treatment of that frightened five year-old Iranian child separated from his mother at Dulles Airport due to Trump’s immigration ban? That was just “alternative day care!”

Naturally, he was impressed by the tens of thousands of angry Americans who descended on airports all over country in protest of that order. “Do you have any idea how angry people have to be to voluntarily go to JFK?” Still, we know that the immigration order and its implementation was “a massive success story on every single level” because a White House source said so — anonymously, which is how everyone boasts about a massive success story.

And then, there’s Steve Bannon, the Rasputin-like presidential adviser responsible for the immigration order, who has inserted himself onto the National Security Council. Bannon seems to have badly irritated Colbert…