In the e-mail that brought today's 'toon, Tom/Dan also wrote:
Hey all,
I finished this one a little early last week and it already feels slightly out of date, but that’s just life for a weekly cartoonist in the Trump era. This was, of course, inspired by all the transparently bad rationalizations from Trump supporters explaining that he didn’t mean what he clearly meant — like whoever it was that argued that he meant “send them back to their districts,” which *really* didn’t age well after the “send her back” rally. Also, for those of you with OCD tendencies (and I do not disparage! I am one of you!), don’t ask me how the decoder ring actually works. It clearly has some pretty extraordinary abilities, for a simple ring, but … it’s satire, just go with it. (I suppose I could have given turned it into a “decoder app,” which would make more literal sense, but wouldn’t be as funny, so, sue me, I went for the pleasing visual joke.) Of course, as I am writing this on Sunday, the rationalizations seem somewhat pointless, as Trump is predictably doubling down on his attacks. I genuinely won't be surprised if the last panel of this cartoon becomes a reality at some point. That's the constant challenge I face these days: thinking up something that's too absurd to actually happen. (That one from a week or two ago where all the Republicans turned into literal zombies will probably remain in the realm of satire, at least.)
Until next week,
Dan/Tom
If only every citizen/voter in this troubled land could be issued a "Decoder Ring" that actually decoded the verbiage that spews from the disgusting mouth of the LK (Lyin' King) wherever there is a TV camera.in a total distraction from the crimes that are committed 24/7 against the United States of America. If this is (fair & balanced) mounting despair, so be it.
[x TMW]
Trump Decoder Ring
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow." His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political blog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Even more recently, Dan Perkins was a runner-up for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.]
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