Welcome to the Swamp

  This is my second attempt. The guy on the right is Gov. Chris Christie in his alter-ego costume after being dropped from the team.  "  firings as part of an effort by Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, to rid the transition of connections to  Gov. Chris Christie   of New Jersey, who was ousted last week as the head of the transition. "   NY Times 11/16/2016 The character in the cart is Rudy Giuliani as Quasimodo, the bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, who played for the fool from Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" But the biggest appointments gossip centered on Rudy Giuliani’s rather manic campaign for secretary of state. Everybody expected Giuliani to be in the running for attorney general, but it turned out he was keen on being appointed to a post for which he had no earthly qualifications whatsoever. Pop Quiz: If Rudy Giuliani is nominated to a high post in the Trump administration, would you rather have the debate over his...

  This is my first cartoon dedicated to the Donald  Drumpf and his campaign promise to drain the swamp of career politicians and lobbyists. Welcome to Trump Swamp. Join us on the glass-bottom boat as we gaze on the denizens below.  Keep your hands inside the railings – and please don’t feed the gators. It’s hard to get past the white nationalist in any discussion of Trump’s team. Sure, they call  Steve Bannon ’s worldview “alt-right,” but that’s deceptive. That makes it sound like something new, when hatred is as old as the hills. White supremacist  Jared Taylor  cheered Bannon’s hire, saying he suspected Bannon will serve as an “anti-waffler” to maintain Trump’s ideological and racial purity. (Taylor’s most recent tweet, as of this writing is, “Excellent Boston Globe article about the Hispanic invasion. This is how we throw away our country.”) “I think that’s excellent,” said former Ku Klux Klan leader  David Duke  of Bannon’s...