Pond Scum vs Algae

Another Cup of WTF!

“Learn from the mistakes of others - you won’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” - Mark Twain

If I’ve learned anything over the past week it’s that there are thousands of experts on social media when it comes to ponds and algae. I’ve also learned that Donald Trump isn’t one of them.

As of the last calculation I read this has been a national joke with a $14.8 million dollar price tag. Trump once again pounced on a problem that didn’t exist. Blamed it all on his incompetent predecessors. Promised to resolve the faux problem like no one has ever seen before. Then fucked it all up.

As most of you already know President Trump is now blaming vandals rather than admit that his own incompetence is the cause of this embarrassment. He has now directed the National Guard to stand watch at the reflecting pool. I assume they’re there to protect the sanctity of the algae and peeling blue paint floating to the surface. It’s a shame that he didn’t feel this same sense of duty to protect the Capitol back on January 6, 2021.

Sketches & sketchy stuff…

Since I was gone for most of the week I didn’t get an early jump on doing a cartoon for this topic. That kind of created a double edged sword. Being late to the party always feels like I dropped the ball, but it also allows me to see what other cartoonists have come up and that lets me avoid duplicating an idea that’s already been done. Unfortunately that didn’t work out either. I noticed another Ty-D-Bol carton was created on the same day that mine was.

I actually had 2 decent approaches to this issue. The Ty-D-Bol idea and another one where Trump was metaphorically “Walking On Water” because the reflecting pool was so full of algae. I have no doubt that his cult believes he can actually do this. I really wasn’t sure which one to take to final so I sent both sketches out to a few trusted sets of eyes and they all seemed to like the Ty-D-Bol idea best.

To be honest the biggest challenge I had was the figuring out the box in Trumps hand. The actual Ty-D-Bol package has a lot going on. There’s a guy in a boat, an overhead shot of a toilet, 5 blue tablets and lots of different areas of type. The box was going to be too small in the cartoon to hold all of that so I had to make edits to keep it simple and legible.

Final drawing…

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