💸“The Federal Debt” Edition
America has officially crossed the $40 trillion debt mark, demonstrating that if something can’t go on forever, Congress will absolutely find a way to keep it going for at least another appropriations cycle.
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🖨️“White House Staff” Edition
Karoline Leavitt is leaving the White House to spend more time with her family.
🛟“SOS” Edition
President Trump dismissed reports of deteriorating conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as “a CNN fake report,” assuring Americans that a retired admiral told him the carrier was “beautifully maintained.” We are still trying to understand how a
⚡️“Electro Shock” Edition
ICE has unveiled its latest innovation in “de-escalation:” electric shock gloves.
🙌Saturday Bonus Cartoons
This week, America learned that our president recently escaped mortal danger by bravely hiding in an airline catering truck, making him the first head of state to seek asylum by cowering beneath a pile of of airline peanut packages.
🪱“RFK Jr.” Edition
For years, Robert F.
🦠“Measles, Mumps and Rubella, Oh My!” Edition
The White House this week unveiled what attendees at the signing ceremony hailed as a “historic” new childhood vaccine policy, though pediatricians and historians alike struggled to identify the “historic” part.
✈️"Air Farce One” Edition
In an audacious new approach to courageous presidential leadership, Donald Trump recently protected America by disguising himself as airline catering. Trump, faced with a potential Iranian assassination attempt on a flight home from Ankara, Turkey, slipped into a food-service truck, ditched Air Force One, and quietly boarded a different military jet.
😮”Get the Flock Outta Here!” Edition
America’s newest national freakout has arrived, and it might—for once—actually be worth freaking out about.
😳“Trump’s Consigliere” Edition
Todd Blanche has officially graduated from being Donald Trump’s personal defense attorney to becoming the nation’s attorney general, a promotion that comes with one small complication: his two bosses appear to be the Constitution and Donald Trump, and they don’t always see eye to eye.
🥳Saturday Bonus Cartoons
It was another week in which the Trump administration demonstrated that government can walk and chew gum at the same time, as long as there are convenient scapegoats standing by to take the fall for the occasional faceplant.
🤬“Contempt of Congress” Edition
Congress has officially decided that the best way to prepare for the next pandemic is to keep reenacting the last one.