Just a Reminder

“I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of any interest to anybody. It’s pretty boring stuff. It’s sordid, but it’s boring, and I don’t understand why it keeps going.” - Donald Trump

In spite of the war with Iran, the spiraling economy, the ridiculous ballroom, never ending lies and middle of the night social posts I’m still going to remind everyone once in a while that our leader is a pedophile. I don’t care what deflection tactics he puts into play or how many times his followers scream “Squirrel”, I’m going to continue putting out a new cartoon about this topic from time to time.

This entire situation is horrific and it’s beyond me that this nation hasn’t demanded justice for the victims and accountability from the perpetrators and those that protect them. The Department of Justice has stated that there a total of 6 million pages in the Epstein files, but only half of them have been released. If this administration is going to continually boast about transparency then they all need to be unredacted and released.

To the best of my knowledge only 3 individuals have been criminally investigated because of the Epstein files. The former Norwegian prime minister Thorbjorn Jagland, former prince Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and British politician Peter Mandelson. Pathetically, not a single American (particularly one mentioned over 38,000 times in the files) has been held accountable.

Sketches & sketchy stuff…

The idea for this cartoon came about as I was driving along a road that I’ve been on a thousand times and noticed that the words PED XING were painted on it. For a split second I imagined how appropriate it would be if Trump was walking across at that moment.

When I got home I went to my computer and looked up the same phrase as road signage and that’s where the idea took off. There are various versions of the sign and I considered doing one similar to the example in the photo only placing Trump’s silhouette on the yellow diamond. I scrapped that idea because I thought it would communicate a little better if I actually drew Trump walking. I was concerned a tiny bit because I was relying on the abbreviation PED rather than PEDO, but I sided with staying true to the signage…mostly. I did make a slight change to the word XING by adding a hyphen.

While I like this cartoon I did realize going in that it might take readers an extra second to connect the dots and I was right. I have received a couple of responses from folks saying that it took them a moment. One gentlemen jokingly asked me if I had forgotten a vowel. Most people had no problem understanding it so I think it was worth the risk.

Final drawing…

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