Toon: Quite Piggy

A short while ago, I suggested the possibility that perhaps it was time for me to retire drawing Donald Old Major Trump with a pig snout.

And now he goes and snaps "Quiet, Piggy!" at a female reporter for deigning to ask him about his name appearing many, many times in the Epstein e-mails released the other day. To paraphrase something I read in the blogosphere this morning, every time you think his regime has hit rock bottom, a trap door opens.

I decided to use Miss Columbia in my cartoon. She used to be the most common cartoon representation of this country, even before Uncle Sam, although she might not be familiar to any of you who were born after, oh, 1945. Especially drawn from behind like this.

My alternative choices were Lady Liberty and the statue of Justice. But neither represent the U.S. in its entirety, only particular aspects of it, so I went with Columbia.

And the pig snout remains for the foreseeable future.

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This is not this week's Q Toon; I plan to post it somewhat later than usual tomorrow just to give this cartoon a little time to breathe.