President Donald Trump isn’t doing well in the polls.
As the coronavirus gets worse, Trump has silenced his COVID-19 task force and has been looking for distractions to move the news away from harping on his virus failures as the death count passed 100,000.
Trump’s latest distraction has been Twitter, which finally bowed to criticism and put an innocuous link to more information, next to a tweet in which Trump lied about voter fraud. This is raw meat for Trump’s base, which doesn’t like those rich, liberal, San Francisco social media companies.
Trump’s executive order against Twitter is inconsequential, but his deception lured the news media and lots of the cartoonists into taking his bait, drawing noncoronavirus cartoons about Trump versus Twitter as the death toll passed a milestone.
Here is a selection of Trump vs. Twitter cartoons drawn this past week …
This last cartoon is by Stephane Peray, who draws as “Stephff” in Thailand (internationally, cartoonists prefer to use only one name, like Cher, Madonna, Lassie or Flipper). He is a long-time contributor to our little syndicate, Cagle Cartoons; he used to have a thriving freelance business drawing cartoons for newspapers around the world.
Now Stephff has given up editorial cartooning because all of his papers have dropped his cartoons as a cost-cutting measure. I was actually surprised to see that he had uploaded this new one, just for us.
The newly accelerated decline of newspapers, and by extension, editorial cartoons, is a grim, worldwide phenomenon. Click here for more information about our reader supported site, Cagle.com, and our editorial cartoonists.
— Editorial cartoonist Daryl Cagle lives in Montecito and runs the CagleCartoons.com news syndicate, distributing editorial cartoons to more than 850 news sites and newspapers around the world, including Noozhawk. Contact him at editor@cagle.com, follow his blog at www.darylcagle.com and follow him on Twitter: @dcagle. Click here for previous cartoons. The opinions drawn are his own.