Trump Is Stubborn

Tariffs, court cases, so much money wasted

The above is my drawing in this week’s New Yorker Magazine. It’s actually something I drew in aroung 2018, and the magazine had it in its bank all these years! Someone there decided to publish it this week — timely, unfortunately. The New Yorker has a huge storage of bought cartoons from a lot of us regular contributors, I don’t know how many, but I am guessing a lot. They buy something and then don’t always publish things right away, sometimes waiting for years.

Here is some of what I read today that I think noteworthy:

Trump is threatening China with more tariffs if Beijing doesn’t retreat in its threats to retaliate. The stock market plumeted, rallied and plumeted again today. This uncertainty has the markets and everyone unsettled.

After losing in a lower court, Trump asked Supreme Court to block order to return wrongly deported man. Judge Paula Xinis of the Federal District Court in Maryland had said the administration committed a “grievous error” that “shocks the conscience” by sending the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to a notorious prison last month. Justice Roberts has ordered a stay to the ruling, giving the justices time to consider the case. Why all this effort to deport one person? It’s about court battles, and making a statement that Trump…