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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIN CASE YOU MISSED IT, Trump is using a cringe-worthy cartoon to THREATEN ALL OF NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA.
The Trump administration is bragging about Americas dominance in the Western Hemisphere with a provocative image of a baseball bat-wielding Donald Trump stomping over global allies.
Emboldened by the extraordinary capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro, the administration now appears to be threatening its neighbors with an illustration copied from a century-old political cartoon symbolizing American expansion.
The image, pushed out by Trumps rapid response team and MAGA acolytes such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, features the president in his trademark dark suit and red tie, with one foot planted on South America and the other stretched over Canada and Alaska in North America.
In his left hand is a baseball bat emblazoned with the words Donroe Doctrine: a reference to the two-century-old policy of U.S. leadership in the Western Hemisphere, known as the Monroe Doctrine, which Trump has now rebranded in his own name.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-sends-bonkers-cartoon-threat-to-us-neighbors/
marble falls
(71,104 posts)Miles Archer
(21,799 posts)I didn't try to see if it would post here. I'm sick of right-clicking and posting the link and it doesn't work. So it's at the link I shared.
marble falls
(71,104 posts)Goonch
(4,236 posts)
Xavier Breath
(6,477 posts)misanthrope
(9,380 posts)He is poised to defecate all over the Southeast where his strongest bastion of support exists. How fitting.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,574 posts)which you get from late stage syphilis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_paresis_of_the_insane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Dalrymple
There's a particularly racist pro-US (and British) imperialist cartoon at his Wikipedia page above, about "Uncle Sam" "civilising" Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines, with extra racist digs at Black, Native American and Chinese people
electric_blue68
(25,939 posts)Tasmanian Devil
(23 posts)Every single Democrat should be holding press conferences condemning his behavior and threats.
But ... crickets? Or worse, congratulations? E.g. from Polis and Fetterman and who knows how many others. What a load of bullsh*t we're in.
Miles Archer
(21,799 posts)So far, that's all I've seen. Schumer.