Take Trump Literally and Seriously.

The media is so like, 2016.

*Political Cartoon by Duff Moses

Much has changed in the world since 2016. We can order food with our faces now, you can buy Dr. Pepper flavored Peeps (I didn’t say you should, merely that you could), Brittney Spears got emancipated, got married and got divorced again, Hillary Clinton is back from her walk in the woods, 10-yr old girls have “skincare regimens”, there’s Zoom work and Zoom school, Zoom dates & divorce court, the Green M&M wears sensible shoes, the Redskins became the Commanders, the Indians became the Guardians, and the Chiefs, well they stayed the Chiefs while serving as a crucial arm of the years’ long deep state PSYOP to [checks notes…] defeat Donald Trump by [checks notes again…] engineering the ascension of the most chart-topping female pop star in history while also orchestrating repeated Super Bowl wins for one of this country’s most successful professional football teams at the same time. Avocado toast comes on cauliflower crust, Beyoncé sings country, and an app called TiKTok is the cultural phenomenon we never knew we needed because frankly, we probably don’t.

All of this, as the world turns, and inevitable change ebbs and flows, and the hands of time transform our existences in big ways and small. Some imperceptible, some impossible to ignore. Our kids grow up, our parents grow old, our faces sag, our eyesight fades, our patience wanes, our bottoms widen and our bellies grow.

Time is a relentless force, flowing like a river with no regard for our desires or plans. There’s so much change in the world, you often don’t know what to expect. You can’t guess at what might be coming next. It’s a mystery shrouded in the mist of uncertainty and molded by the hands of chance and fate, unfolding day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute… until it finally comes into view and often catches you off guard.

Such is life.

Except that is, when it comes to Donald Trump.

That fucker hasn’t changed since he first came down that dumbass gilded escalator. He hasn’t changed since “they’re not sending their best…” and “Mexicans are rapists” and “lock her up”. He hasn’t changed since he first started the double fisted jerk and twist all those years ago, because he’s still doing the double fisted jerk and twist to this very day, albeit the jerking is far less vigorous than it once was, and the twist is more of a… tilt nowadays. We’re talking about a guy who is still painting himself neon orange, still swooping the same 6 hairs into that 15-step combover, still promising to “make America great again”, still telling us he’s “like, smart and cognitively there” (he’s not and he’s not). He’s still telling us he’ll ban Muslims, still attacking, belittling and demeaning everyone and everything he feels diminishes his carefully crafted collective delusion in some way, still insulting women, still making shit up, still gaslighting, still grifting, still swindling, still stoking violence and still lying.

And the press is STILL asking us if we should be taking him seriously.