‘Doonesbury’ creator explains why he sees Donald Trump as a true, proven [expletive]
Garry Trudeau, creator of the Pulitzer-winning comic strip, has been satirizing the real-estate mogul since 1987, when the world of Doonesbury first envisioned Trump as a presidential contender. The Donald since then has often come under the cartoon microscope, skewered over his treatment of wives and other women, employees and other underlings and, in general, most anyone (everyone?) he deemed beneath him.
Hes always been impossible to ignore, Trudeau tells The Posts Comic Riffs. Its like having a big, clanking cowbell installed in your head. Ive just written four Sundays in a row about Trump, which is insane.
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GT: Absolutely. Ahole has a very particular meaning, one that is universally understood. The ahole is a demeaning, abrasive bully who takes all the credit and assigns all the blame to others. In my lifetime, weve had several presidents whove disappointed us; weve had a crook, a warmonger, some philanderers, but weve never actually had a president whos a total ahole. This is where I fundamentally got it wrong; I assumed that the body politic would reject such a toxic personality. Its also why I thought Chris Christie would fail to get traction. Now we face the distinct possibility of having not just one, but two aholes on the same ticket. Thats how I much I know about politics.
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