JD Crowe: Trump tariff stock market stunt: Martha Stewart did prison time for lesser crime

A similar version of this cartoon was first published in 2020.

This is an opinion cartoon.

Trump is the author of chaos, deception, lies and confusion. Seems like there might be a Bible verse or two about that.

Trump is the pyromaniac who is also the fire marshal.

Trump is the arsonist who burned down your house.

And then he pictures himself as the buff hero fireman who rushes in to urinate on the flames of the fire he started. And now he wants to claim credit for saving your burned down urinated-on house.

In the meantime, while your house was burning, Trump and his billionaire friends all got richer. And Trump is bragging about it.

Martha Stewart was sent to prison for a much lesser crime than what Trump is bragging about in this White House video.

The tariff stunt was at the very least market manipulation, in addition to whatever other horrible thing it was.

Trump’s crime scene smoking gun post on his Truth Social app includes an all caps firestarter message to his minions: ‘NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY!’

Moments later, Trump flip-flopped on his tough tariffs stance and declared some sort of weird “ass-kissing” victory.

The stock market made a miraculous recovery and Trump’s oligarchy got magically richer.

The world hates us.

According to plan.

Bless Trump’s teeny tiny cold black hole of a gaslighting heart.

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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].