I was propted to use ChatGPT to make the above cartoon when I saw this:
HUFFPOST frequently uses clever alliterations of their front page even when the article - in this case “Trump Claims ‘Total Control’ Over Hormuz Strait In Post Proclaiming ‘Praise Be To Allah!’ - doesn’t use that phrase.
Trump is known for coining nicknames, but turnaround is fair play. In fact his name, particularly Don, lends itself to so many insulting alliterations with adjectives including, but not limited to, those in the cartoon: Dubious Don, Dozy Don, Delusional Don, Desperate Don, Dishonest Don, Drowsy Don, Diminished Don, Distracted Don, Disoriented Don, Dangerous Don, Devious Don, Defiant Don, Dodgy Don, Dysfunctional Don, Deranged Don, Disgraced Don, Dissembling Don, Demagogic Don, Dictatorial Don...
And with Donald you get the rhythm of something almost like a comic-strip character: Delusional Donald, Dangerous Donald, Dishonest Donald, Desperate Donald, or one of my favorites, Doddering Donald:
If you can think of more:
This makes me think of comedian Kathy Griffin and her reality show My Life On The D-List. Of course she was never on anything that could remotely be called a D-Listt. All six seasons of the program were nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program, with seasons 2 and 3 winning in 2007 and 2008. “D-List” was largely Kathy Griffin’s self-deprecating comic persona.
You may remember her from when she faced significant backlash after posing with a model of Donald Trump's head covered in blood.
The image cost Griffin her CNN New Year’s Eve job and even prompted a Secret Service investigation. She was questioned by agents, but the investigation was later closed without charges. Initially, she apologized for the image but later retracted her apology, stating that the outrage was overblown.
There’s an interesting comparison with James Comey. Kathy Griffin posed with a Kathy Griffin posed holding a prop made to resemble Trump’s severed, bloodied head. The Secret Service investigated her and questioned her, but she was never charged. Comey, by contrast, posted a photograph of seashells spelling “86 47” — an ambiguous political expression that he said meant getting rid of the 47th president — and years later found himself criminally charged with threatening Trump.
If nothing else, the contrast says something about how differently provocative expressions involving Trump has been treated under his first and second administrations.
I was curious as to whether Comey’s lawyers could use this in his defense so I asked ChatGPT and this was the answer:
In 2017 federal authorities investigated an unmistakably provocative depiction of Trump’s severed head and concluded that criminal prosecution wasn’t warranted. Yet this government asks a jury to regard two numbers arranged in seashells — “86 47” — as a criminal threat.
That doesn’t legally dispose of Comey’s case, but rhetorically it’s powerful, particularly if his lawyers can introduce evidence about how threat cases have historically been evaluated.
At present Griffin’s comedy tour is called her comeback special was titled My Life on the PTSD-List.
A substantial part of the story behind it concerns the fallout from the Trump episode. As you can see here…
… she is very political and thanks to the Trump bloody head episode she can suggest that if she was on the D-List, Trump has moved her to the A-List among comedians.
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The following goes with Trump critics awed by Karoline Leavitt’s surprise resignation: ‘Very big deal.
One of the most worrisome signs coming into Trump’s second administration was that he right off named Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff. Wiles is a lot of things, including an unrepentant and cynical supporter of the most corrupt and incompetent president in history, but she is most certainly not incompetent. Indeed, her mastery of the political dark arts is best proven by the almost non-existent turnover within this oil spill of a White House.
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This inspired me to use Chat to make this:
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