Funny

I see a cartoon this morning which in the top panel depicts a bloated, Mussolini-like Trump posing the question "Who's going to pay for the wall?", and in the bottom panel a delirious stadium full of supporters shouting "Military families!" 

Like most Trump comics, this is more sickening than it is funny. And it's not really even a joke. It is merely a depiction of the reality we have all seen over and over again. 

They voted for him because he promised to build a beautiful, albeit ludicrous wall on the US-Mexican border which would keep out not only rapists, killers, and drug dealers but also just plain old brown people, men, women, and children, all of whom were entering the country through a handful of legal ports of entry in any case. And yes, Mexico, for some reason which apparently only those voters understood, would pay the tab.

They voted for him because he would be a champion of the military. He has championed it to the extent that extra millions have been devoted to building overstocks of weapons we don't need, while robbing military families of money previously appropriated for their welfare in order to pay for the wall that Mexico was paying for--in other words, to pay for it out of the taxpayers' pocketbooks.

They voted for him because he would represent the common man with tax breaks and such-like. To be sure, he has provided tax breaks in the billions--to corporations and to the top one percent. 

They voted for him because he was 'strong' and would be respected and feared around the world. Instead, he is an easily manipulated dupe for our enemies and alternately laughed at and ignored by our friends. 

And so on and so forth. 

No, the comic is not funny. What's funny is that his supporters, his faithful basket of deplorables, will continue to shout their affirmation no matter what the man says or does. That is funny, in the sense that it is odd, perplexing, unbelievable, pathological.