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Miles Archer

(21,799 posts)
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 06:37 PM Monday

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, Trump is using a cringe-worthy cartoon to THREATEN ALL OF NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA.

The Trump administration is bragging about America’s 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 Trump’s 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/

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, Trump is using a cringe-worthy cartoon to THREATEN ALL OF NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA. (Original Post) Miles Archer Monday OP
Where is that cartoon? marble falls Monday #1
At the link. Miles Archer Monday #2
So it's in the video. Thanks! marble falls Monday #9
;-{) cringe-worthy cartoon Goonch Monday #3
Considering where I live, that gives me a real shitty angle of him. Xavier Breath Monday #4
Now that you mention it misanthrope Monday #10
I looked up the original. Louis Dalrymple drew it in 1905, the same year he died from general paralysis of the insane muriel_volestrangler Monday #8
Bully boy! Blargh! electric_blue68 Monday #5
Where is the pushback? Tasmanian Devil Monday #6
Schumer said Republicans need to step up to the plate Miles Archer Monday #7

Miles Archer

(21,799 posts)
2. At the link.
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 07:01 PM
Monday

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.

misanthrope

(9,380 posts)
10. Now that you mention it
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 09:17 PM
Monday

He is poised to defecate all over the Southeast where his strongest bastion of support exists. How fitting.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,574 posts)
8. I looked up the original. Louis Dalrymple drew it in 1905, the same year he died from general paralysis of the insane
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 07:43 PM
Monday

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

Tasmanian Devil

(23 posts)
6. Where is the pushback?
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 07:26 PM
Monday

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.

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