This is an opinion cartoon with a dose of satire.

A White House press conference turned into a battle for attention between President Musk’s 4-year-old son and a befuddled elderly guy trying to nap in the Oval Office.

It was cute for a while, especially when one of the participants crawled all over Musk, sat on his shoulders, played with his ears and pretended to sleep. The little dude then dismounted and presented a freshly-picked booger to the old frowny guy.

The old guy took the peace offering in good faith, thinking it was a teeny-tiny Big Mac with extra cheese. But where was the teeny-tiny Diet Coke? Fries? Ketchup?

Things sadly took a turn.

It could have been worse. It’s not like children with cancer are now hopeless or dying because of NIH cuts … or millions of people around the world will suffer because … or all the J6 criminals have been pardoned and are on the loose … or that the Supreme Court has sold their souls … or that the Treasury has been illegally broken into by an unelected South African guy who spent millions to elect a wanna-be tyrant who now has access to all our social security numbers and bank information that has been compromised by his band of techie wanna-be power mongers … or because we’re tired of watching this daily democracy death march towards an authoritarian oligarchy … all while the richest man in the world continues to get richer with every decision he makes as an unelected part-time ‘special employee’ of the government.

Related: JD Crowe: Elon Musk is Trump’s ‘special government’ wrecking ball

Whatever.

In the end, it all turned out well. President Musk fired his 4-year-old son and promoted befuddled, cranky, old nappy guy – Donald J. Trump – to the vacated Toddler position.

“Toddler is a high energy job that requires full attention to distractions, emotional outbursts and tantrums,” said Musk. “Mr. Trump shouldn’t have fallen for that booger trick the former Toddler tried to pull, but we have every confidence he will grow into the position. Oh, look – a transgender squirrel in a space suit! The future must be destroyed … be right back!”

Good, happy times from here on out, no doubt.

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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix. Give him a holler at [email protected].