I didn't realize there was actually a Herblock cartoon about Turnip !

[eppur_se_muova]

October 31, 1999: “Said Alice . . . ‘It’s The Stupidest Tea-Party I Ever Was At In All My Life’ ”

Shortly after Donald Trump declared his candidacy for the Reform Party’s presidential nomination, pledging to spend $100 million of his own money to win “the whole megillah” and naming Oprah Winfrey as his ideal running mate, Herblock drew Trump as the Mad Hatter at tea with Ross Perot, the party’s standard-bearer in the previous two elections, and Pat Buchanan, who would go on to claim the Reform Party nomination. Trump dropped out of the race in February of the next year, but not before raising one of the issues that would become the signature of his 2016 campaign for the White House: trade. One difference? Running against Buchanan, Trump made an issue of his opponent’s isolationism, particularly Buchanan’s comment that Nazi Germany wasn’t a credible threat to the United States. At the time, Trump declared of Buchanan “Look, he’s a Hitler lover. I guess he’s an anti-Semite. He doesn’t like the blacks, he doesn’t like the gays, it’s just incredible that anybody could embrace this guy.” This year, as white nationalists and anti-Semites have embraced the Trump campaign, Trump has expressed less concern about bias. –Alyssa Rosenberg



(The Herb Block Foundation)
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more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/11/01/how-legendary-washington-post-cartoonist-herblock-might-have-drawn-the-2016-election/

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Thank you for posting this

[sop]

2. Trump was a Democrat back then, right?

[rampartd]

3. that looks like the reform party with perot

pat buchanon beat trump to be their nominee

[sop]

4. Looked up Trump's party affiliations...

"Trump registered as a Republican in Manhattan in 1987; since that time, he has changed his party affiliation five times. In 1999, he changed his party affiliation to the Independence Party of New York. In August 2001, Trump changed his party affiliation to Democratic. In September 2009, he changed his party affiliation back to the Republican Party. In December 2011, Trump changed to "no party affiliation" (independent). In April 2012, he again returned to the Republican Party."

Recently Trump switched to the United Russia Party.

[not fooled]

6. Didn't he say he switched to the Republican party

because their voters were stupider and easier to con? Something like that.

[GreenWave]

7. He supports the Trump party.

[generalbetrayus]

9. No, there is no evidence he ever said that, but that doesn't mean he didn't think that.

[multigraincracker]

5. Nice find. I'm old enough to remember him supporting both Clintons.

[not fooled]

8. Contemporary version works, too

Just make Eloon the March Hare and Lil' Mikey Johnson the Dormouse.

[KS Toronado]

10. Excellent find, thanks for sharing

[DFW]

11. Herb Block once did a cartoon about my dad

He said it was one of the biggest honors he ever had, even though he had known Block for decades.