Strait Flush

Another Cup of WTF!

“The best place to find helping hand is at the end of your own arm”- Kin Hubbard

President Trump has spent a great portion of his second term taking a giant shit on almost every nation on the planet (other than Russia) in the form of tariffs, insults and threats, but now he needs their help. Trump’s latest Epstein file distraction (the war with Iran) has hit a little speed bump called the Strait of Hormuz and he’s been demanding that these other nations roll up their sleeves, risk lives and treasure to assist him in securing this vital and strategic area of the Middle East. To no ones surprise, most of them have responded with a very diplomatic and subtle “Fuck You.”

Trump has responded to this blatant global rejection with his usual helping of grace and dignity… zilch. He now claims that the United States doesn’t need any help and was only asking to “find out how they react.” He went on to boast about America being the strongest nation with the strongest military in the world. He has also claimed that several nations have committed to helping, but refused to identify those nations when asked by reporters.

This whole scenario is pretty standard if you’ve ever experienced recess at an elementary school. There’s always some obnoxious bully that goes around making threats, calling kids names and intimidating anyone they don’t consider a threat. Then at some point they find themselves in a jam, realize that no one has their back and then claim that they didn’t need help anyway. This is where we are right now and unfortunately the bully that half the country voted for has put our nation, our economy and most of all, our uniformed sons and daughters in this “Jam of Choice”.

Bottom line. He’s pissed off, full of himself (shit) and this executive bowel movement has over two and a half years to go.

Sometimes the imagery for a cartoon comes first and that’s what happened here. Trump has been demanding help from nations that he’s been defecating on for over a year and I needed to draw that. My first sketches were of Trump sitting on his global toilet and I imagined him with his phone and considered having him typing something along the lines of “Why won’t these other countries help me?”

I then wondered about just having the image without any copy at all. I’m sure that most of my readers would have enjoyed that, but I wasn’t totally convinced that it was the better choice. I showed one of the initial sketches to me best friend and he suggested that I add his pants around his ankles for more visual clarity. The addition of the pants lead me to losing the phone and stretching his chubby legs forward in the same manner as Jeff Daniels in his legendary scene from Dumb & Dumber.

At this point I really enjoyed the drawing, but wanted to revisit the idea of adding a tagline. I thought about how crazy and pissed off Trump is right now and the word “MAD” covered both adjectives. That’s when I decided to play off the imagery of the toilet/globe and add a twist to the movie title, It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!

There are probably a dozen other things I could have said and it would have most likely been okay without any copy, but I do like the way it turned out.

Final drawing…

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