To tell the truth

Donald Trump takes hydroxychloroquine…

Medical experts say taking hydroxychloroquine is not effective at preventing the COVID-19 virus, but since Donald Trump doesn’t listen to medical experts, he took it anyway.

Now here are some of hydroxychloroquine’s side effects:

• Headache, dizziness, ringing in your ears

• Nausea, vomiting, stomach pain

• Loss of appetite, weight loss

• Mood changes, feeling nervous or irritable

Which is quite a coincidence because that’s exactly how I feel after listening to a Donald Trump press conference.

Readers need to know what’s going on to understand political cartoons because generally speaking political cartoons suck at explaining stuff; they comment on what you already know. And to understand this cartoon, readers had to know at least two – maybe three – things:

1. Donald Trump had just finished a course of hydroxychloroquine.

2. Sodium pentothal is also known as a “truth serum” – one of the psychoactive drugs used to obtain information from people who don’t want to provide it.

3. I got lucky on the timing of this cartoon because I drew it on the same day Twitter decided to apply a “fact-check” on two of Trump’s tweets that made false claims.

Do you have any idea how full of crap you have to be for Twitter to say; “Yeah, maybe you don’t want to believe this tweet.” It’s a high bar, but apparently President Trump cleared it with room to spare.

Stay safe, everybody.

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