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How Corrupt is Trump and His Family? — The Week in Editorial Cartoons (Update #7) [1]
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Date: 2025-05-15
Trump’s “Public Corruption Tour”
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) gave a speech on the floor of the United States Senate in which he tore into Trump’s unethical and illegal financial dealings. Such transactions are not only personally enriching for Trump but also for several members of his family.
Why do we, as a country, tolerate such criminal behavior?
Has this country ever seen such blatant corruption before? The Speaker of the US House of Representatives excused it. Why? Because all of it is “in the open.”
Murphy On Trump’s Middle East Trip: This Isn’t America First. This Is Trump First. It’s A National Security Disaster And A Moral Abomination. Usually, public corruption happens in secret. The politicians that do it, they know it’s wrong to accept money in exchange for favorable government treatment, and so they hide it - until they’re found out… x Bill Day @BillDaytoons pic.twitter.com/mwHbatUFp7 — Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) May 15, 2025 This isn’t America First. This is not what he promised the American people. This is Trump First. He is willing to put our nation’s security at risk, take unconstitutional bribes, just so he can fly himself and his Mar-a-Lago golf buddies around the world in gold plated luxury planes gifted to him by foreign governments. All while at the same time, he tells Americans that they should be okay buying fewer school supplies for their kids, or fewer birthday presents for their grandchildren, because he is driving prices up for non-billionaires in this country. All while at the same time he is kicking 13 million people off of their health care. Trump lines his pockets, he corrupts our foreign policy to enrich himself, while driving up prices and stealing health care from average Americans. It’s a national security disaster and it’s a moral abomination. You can watch Senator Murphy’s speech in full and read the text here.
x Senator Chris Murphy, on Trump's bribery tour of the Middle East. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👇 pic.twitter.com/gdz3oufSMf — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) May 14, 2025
Bruce Springsteen’s "The Land of Hope and Dreams Tour" in the UK
x At his concert, Bruce Springsteen calls out Trump as a fascist authoritarian. 🙌💪👏👊👇 pic.twitter.com/Vfszx7miuf — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) May 15, 2025
Robert de Niro at the Cannes Film Festival: “America’s Philistine President”
“In my country, we are fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted,” he said. “That affects all of us here, because art is the crucible that brings people together, like tonight. Art looks for truth. Art embraces diversity. That’s why art is a threat.” “That’s why we are a threat to autocrats and fascists. America’s philistine president ha[s] had himself appointed head of one of our premier cultural institutions [the Kennedy Center]. He has cut funding and support to the arts, humanities and education.”
x Giving a speech in Cannes, Robert De Niro trashes Trump and his fascist authoritarian regime. 🙌🙏👇 pic.twitter.com/IlmD5l0lyD — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) May 15, 2025
Manual Updates Posted Here
Update #7 — 10:17 pm ET
As Tattoo Would Say, “De Plane! De Plane!”
Don’t Get Close to the Sun
x AIR HORSE ONE pic.twitter.com/l0JOnGhlxz — Marian Kamensky (@MarianKamensky1) May 14, 2025
Update #6 — 10:10 pm ET
SCOTUS Will Not Side with Trump on This Issue
What’d You Expect from the Saudis?
x Looking for friends in all the wrong places. #MBS pic.twitter.com/es7vOO1w2k — Dennis Goris (@DennisGoris) May 14, 2025
Update #5 — 8:08 pm ET
Par for the Course
The New Statue of Liberty
Update #4 — 7:56 pm ET
Making No Sense
Sesame Street Figured Trump Out in 1988
Update #3 — 7:41 pm ET
The Insurrection, Part II — “We Wuz Robbed!”
Touche
x The Contrarian pic.twitter.com/1PWZ8RHujH — Michael de Adder (@deAdder) May 13, 2025
Update #2 — 7:39 pm ET
Sleepy Don
When He is Awake…
Update #1 — 7:30 pm ET
Well, Bud…
Trumpian Logic: He Let Them Destroy Gaza to Save It
Awash in Bribery
Unprecedented Corruption
Excusing Corruption — Utter Nonsense by Mike Johnson
x Mike Johnson's argument that what Trump is doing can't be corruption is analogous to a person putting a bullet into another person's forehead in broad daylight in Times Square — and then arguing that it can't possibly be murder because it's so blatant. 🙄👇pic.twitter.com/UicrLe7nt5 — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) May 15, 2025
How Much More Evidence of Corruption Does Mike Johnson Need?
x Christopher Weyant, The Boston Globe @ChristopheWeyant pic.twitter.com/Xn1nH7JzPp — Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) May 15, 2025
An Inconvenient Truth for the Republican Party
x There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.
[image or embed] — Data for Progress (@dataforprogress.org) May 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Quid Pro Quo
x Chris Britt @chrisbritt01 pic.twitter.com/37uf3XL4kr — Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) May 15, 2025
He May Be an SOB, But He is Our SOB
No Strings Attached
The Art of the Deal
But It Looks Bad!
x Matt Wuerker @wuerker pic.twitter.com/gHomBAZgqQ — Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) May 15, 2025
America Under Trump
That Settles It
Nobody Does It Better
Get Used to It
Do Your Part for the Needy Rich
Why Trump Could Never Become Pope
Trouble Ahead
We Need a Recount
Not Happening, Donnie
x TRUMPS KONKLAVE pic.twitter.com/BkvMdtKpGy — Marian Kamensky (@MarianKamensky1) May 7, 2025
Enough!
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