R. Crumb takes on D. Trump (in 1989)

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In this goofy but still very much relevant satire (which even predicts, in passing, the subject becoming a reality TV star), the underground cartoonist faces off against the man many of us wish were just a cartoon.

Note: brief (verbal) rape "joke."


Two pages of six from "Point the Finger," Hup #3 (Last Gasp, Nov. 1989).

Crumb, hosting a talk show called Point the Finger, has typically Crumbian muscular women Tracy and Marny kidnap Donald Trump from his own office and bring him into the studio.







Trump continues laying into Crumb, and the more he talks, the more Tracy and Marny find themselves succumbing to his charisma and "boyish charm."







At this point the story goes metafictional, as Stan Shooter, the fictitious "producer" of Hup, insists that Crumb tack on a second, happier ending. In this, we see Tracy and Marny remaining immune to Trump's charisma and promises of hedonistic good times; instead, they drag him to a toilet and give him a swirly. Crumb sends the sobbing, humiliated plutocrat away and (in case we've forgotten this is a Crumb comic) has kinky sex with the two women. The last panel cuts back to Crumb telling Shooter that while he does like that ending, the first one was more realistic.