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Denis Pombriant's avatar

Could we take a cue from this and close the Oval Office for 2 years while we renovate the presidency?

Andy Borowitz's avatar

Fantastic!

Kathy's avatar
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At this point, two years without

president trump or Vance or anyone would be an upgrade.

jon Hodson's avatar

I'm not so sure John Dunce would be an upgrade. Maybe the ayatollahs Dumbsantis or abbott would be a rather good choice.

Liz Schick's avatar

OMG, you’ve done it again. Made me laugh out loud with your headline! And the story. I second Denis Pombriant’s idea of closing the Oval Office for 2 years while we renovate the presidency. Please.

Susan Stone's avatar

While we're renovating the presidency, could we also please get rid of all the gold stuff on the walls of the oval office (and anywhere else, and the gold toilets)?

Martin Reiter's avatar

Nothing says let them eat cake like gold paint and a big ballroom while you take away basic life support.

Susan Stone's avatar

Very astute observation! And the best part is that trump gets all the cake because he's killed off everyone else so he doesn't have to share.

John Townsend's avatar

Too bad it isn't that doo-doo cake in the movie, "The Help"!

Susan Stone's avatar

I didn't see that movie, but I love the idea. It would be what he deserves. IMO.

Olivia Ward's avatar

Yes! Fire up the tumbrils -- get out the knitting!

John Townsend's avatar

If only Trump would take off his panniers and lice-ridden wig, maybe he would think straight!

Kate Delano-Condax Decker's avatar

...safest to remove the whole entire head, if you ask me...

Bruce Keogh's avatar

He already runs around like a headless chook - so why not the whole entire head?

carol corsaro's avatar

Trump could not think in the logical sense even if he was coached!

Annette's avatar

and all the signs indicating which office is where, because tRump thought post-its might give away his mental decline

Mary K's avatar

Yes! I've always thought those signs were so he could find his way around.

John Townsend's avatar

--but are we sure he can read cursive?

Annette's avatar

are we sure he can read? Period/full stop

misia.d's avatar

That’s a ridiculous hurdle. Even Crutch-Jared can’t fake that!

Clym Yeobright's avatar

Post-its! Love it, Annette! lol

Annette's avatar

of course, Clym; he invented them, along with microwave popcorn and micro-fleece (he's good at fleecing)

Susan Stone's avatar

Thank you for a good laugh, Annette!

Judy Shaffer's avatar

Oh yes....PLEASE. Get rid of the gaudy faux-gold atrocious cheap-looking decor.

Suzyb's avatar

Along with the gaudy faux-gold atrocious cheap-looking dictator! (and his sneering wife)

misia.d's avatar

The Christmas Tree Shop near me closed, did D.C.’s have a big sale too?

Mady MacMillan's avatar

Tacky and garish beyond description. You can't make this stuff up.

John Townsend's avatar

Tacky and wacky!

John Townsend's avatar

Yes, scrape it off and use all that real gold (ha!ha!) to pay down the national debt!

Susan Stone's avatar

I doubt it's worth more than $100 (tops), but still a great idea.

Penny Pawl's avatar

I laughed and smiled too.

GingerLee's avatar

brilliant..fumigate first...

Laura Allen-Simpson's avatar

And when you say "fumigate," I hope you also mean "burn some sage" to cleanse the space of evil.

John Townsend's avatar

Commission also a tanker truck full of holy water and a strong pressure hose

to flush it all away!

Mady MacMillan's avatar

GingerLee, you made me laugh out loud. Apparently no one wants to stand behind the Trumpster when he's speechifying.

Judy Renka's avatar

You don't appreciate the trumpet accompanyment?

John Townsend's avatar

You mean that's not the Marine Corp band?

Susan Barnes's avatar

Now there’s an idea.

Elisabeth Birker's avatar

Yes please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😂😂

Beth McClellan's avatar

Now THAT is one good idea!

Judy Renka's avatar

Yes. We really need to talk about regime change in thr US.

Annette's avatar

<standing ovation> we'll need at least that much time to fumigate it!

John Townsend's avatar

--at least until January, 2029?

Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Sometimes the commenters are as witty as Borowitz

Anne J's avatar

Honestly, I’m just relieved they’re finally addressing the infrastructure. You can’t run a proper global chokepoint without marble armrests. That’s basic governance. Also unclear whether the renovation includes surge pricing for tankers during peak hours or if that’s only for VIP oil.

And I assume there’ll be a ribbon cutting where everyone insists they personally came up with the idea of “water, but narrower.”

It's Come To This's avatar

but what about the toilets? Tell us about the toilets, Andy. Gold-plated, gold chandeliers, porcelain cameos of Trump in every urinal. BIGLY toilets, like nothing anybody's ever seen before.....

Anne J's avatar

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION (to the toilets).

Kathy's avatar
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Anytime Trump is involved in renovations or his presidency, toilets come to mind

Sharon P's avatar

and a great deal of sh-t

John Townsend's avatar

A Niagara Falls of it!

Skepticat's avatar

Anytime he's involved in ANYTHING.

Judy Tuwaletstiwa's avatar

yes, i have a folder with various images from the web...very funny ones...and the folder is titled "king kakka", a word from the same time as king midas...trump thinks everything he touches turns to gold...and, in fact everything he touches turns to sh_t.

Steve Newman's avatar

The idea of that urinal porcelain relief of T is making my prostate tingle.

Maureen OShanesy's avatar

That’s got to be the first time the thought of T made anyone tingle, anywhere…

John Townsend's avatar

Most of all Melania!

J Cheng's avatar

did you mean to say "tinkle"....

Steve Newman's avatar

Nope, I meant it as an illusionary tingle that would eventually lead to a tinkle. So glad we cleared that up. A misunderstanding of that proportion could throw the world off it's axis.

Annette's avatar

<snort laugh>

John Townsend's avatar

--and it's wobbling enough already!

ABuckley's avatar

Hmmm....No...

Glenn Sills's avatar

Forget gold plated toilets, why not go all the way with platinum coated toilets? Now that I think about it why isn't Trump's White House equipped with them. The radiation will make Trump go faster, in more ways than one.

Annette's avatar

someone needs to plant that idea in what's left of his swiss cheese brain

Bruce Keogh's avatar

Why all the fuss about Trump's toilets when he is giving everybody the sh*ts? What about our toilets?

Jud dubow's avatar

No, it has to be gold. The Would-Be-King would be afraid people would

Could think the platinum was silver.

John Townsend's avatar

You mean plutonium don't you? Platinum is not radioactive.

Perhaps a solution of plutonium could be applied to that platinum toilet seat!

Annette's avatar

they may be gold, they may be porcelain, but are they functioning?? Asking for a friend.

Catherine Alvarez's avatar

They will be functioning maybe when the most beautiful ballroom in the history of the world is complete .

Pam Birkenfeld's avatar

As a sailor, I have to hope that they make them the best and most wonderful holding tank toilets ever made in the history of earth. So we don’t pollute the hell out of that place that’s already probably polluted.

Searcher76's avatar

And there has to be good water pressure.

marlyg's avatar

Don't forget about the flush volume! They have to have lots of pressure to make sure the biggest turds will go with one flush!

John Townsend's avatar

--including Trump and Company!

Elisabeth Birker's avatar

😂😂. Yes, Andy…please tell us about the gold plated toilets❣️😂😂

Anne Fletcher-Jones's avatar

😂😂😂😂😂. But I don’t think I’d be able to “go” if his smugugly face was staring down at me.

John Townsend's avatar

--and nobody ever wants to see!

Tricia W's avatar
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Anne J: It will be a Low Wake Zone. So no Woke shipping permitted.

Frau Katze's avatar

Woke tankers need to go!

bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

Two years to design and create the special "Khameni Rial" the official currency required to pay tolls thru the strait.

J Cheng's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Susie's avatar

Holy shit, Anne. That’s hilarious to a word!!! 👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣

JeannieLaKT's avatar

Needs more gold!

Al Gorythm's avatar

Contingency plans are being developed to transport oil using Pete Hegseth’s hair.

BTAM Master's avatar

If Hegseth goes swimming does his hair get wet? Or is it declared an environmental disaster?

John Townsend's avatar

Just the existence of Hegseth is a disaster, environmental or otherwise!

Wendy Tucker's avatar

I don't think it is actually his hair. I think it is a mass of preserved grey worms which have been glued together into a wig which he puts on each morning.

John Townsend's avatar

Son of Medusa!

DEBORAH K's avatar

John, Medea did not have snakes for hair. I believe you mean Medusa. Medea murdered her children because her significant other was faithless.

John Townsend's avatar

You are right! Thank you!

marlyg's avatar

I believe it is the latter!

Susan Barnes's avatar

Brylcream a little dab’ll do ya. (You have to be old enough😄)

Al Gorythm's avatar

No more greasy kid stuff!

John Gregory's avatar

wasn't that the slogan for Wild Root Creme Oil, Brylcream's competitor?

Al Gorythm's avatar

Vitalis: “Are you still using that greasy kid stuff on your hair?”

DeeDeeBee's avatar

Carter's Little Liver Pills to keep his alcohol soaked liver healthy.

Judy Renka's avatar

Oh Gawd! Arthur Godfrey!

DeeDeeBee's avatar

Yeah, icky Arthur Godfrey. He made my pre-teen skin crawl. But, then, there was Julius LaRosa (who made the fems swoon).

Judy Renka's avatar

Guaranteed to make your skin crawl at any age. I frequently lament the TV line-up in the 1950's (I was 4 or 5). Really just a small selection and the choosing was easy. However, I ended up with Arthur Godfrey too often. What on earth was worse? Those were the days of Lassie and Hopalong Cassidy.

DeeDeeBee's avatar

And Roy Rogers/Dale Evans, The Lone Ranger, Gene Autry. Sitcoms such as Meet Millie and My Little Margie. Variety shows such as It's Coke Time with Eddie Fisher and Dinah Shore (see the USA in your Chevrolet). I liked the early episodes of Lassie starring Tommy Rettig.

ABuckley's avatar

Is that still manufactured?

Folks on my side of town just liked good 'ole Royal Crown.

Ellen McKenzie's avatar

What about Vitalis????

ABuckley's avatar

OMG, we’re going

back-in-the-day, now!

😂😂🤭

Susan Barnes's avatar

I've aged 20 years just reading these comments

Edith Griffin's avatar

Only 20? You must be a youngling.

Judy Renka's avatar

Old enough to be unable to read it without the tune.

John Townsend's avatar

Too bad it is all going to soak through his skull where nothing else would!

Bruce Keogh's avatar

That would take at least two tanker loads. Hope they don't mess it up!

Kathy's avatar

Turns out the strait is crooked, Iran has called in contractors to straighten it.

Deb Borrelli's avatar

Have you heard as to whether Iran will also build a war room underneath the strait? 😉

Kathy's avatar

I haven’t; but I did hear that Trump contacted Iran and suggested a temporary truce, and further bombing wait until after the 2028 election.

Steve Newman's avatar

Isn’t that kind of like bankrupting the casinos because he was out of his league then too and grabbing all those losses against future gains?

Marc Davis's avatar

Crooked? That's the way he likes it!

Jim Mole's avatar

They want to make the strait straight

The Rickster's avatar

Khameni-Peyronie’s Disease.

Kathy's avatar

Peyronie's (pay-roe-NEEZ) disease is a condition in which fibrous scar tissue forms in the deeper tissues under the skin of the penis. This causes curved, painful erections. It also can make the penis shorter while erect.

Lets just rename it GOP’S disease

Wendy Tucker's avatar

What if the pharmaceutical company that advertises Peyronie's disease cure-all on tv asked Melanomia to be a spokesperson

Jim Mole's avatar

Could explain why Trump, Kegseth, etc. are so frustrated.

Annette's avatar

do I see an executive order being written in the near future . . .?

John Townsend's avatar

Most likely. And with a black Sharpie with no restricted flow.....

Bruce Keogh's avatar

Advice to GOP: Avoid Japanese elections

Ellen McKenzie's avatar

But does it look like a carrot?

Judy Renka's avatar

Nope. Still a teeny mushroom.

John Townsend's avatar

Trickle, trickle goes the flow of oil!

John Townsend's avatar

Can those contractors straighten the crooks in our government? Asking for a dear, dear friend.

Judy Renka's avatar

Henceforth to be named Peyronie Strait

Meighan Corbett's avatar

Andy, I don't know how you do it but thank you!

Robert E.'s avatar

I envision a giant statue of Trump holding a pull chain for the new Hegseth inspired Commodal Straight of Horbooze.

howard levitt's avatar

And a giant arch spanning the strait

Jim Mole's avatar

A giant golden arch - or TWO!

Jan Fabiyi's avatar

Oh God, don’t give him any ideas.

Sharon P's avatar

not a new idea he ALWAYS has food in the area the brain should be

Annette's avatar

the golden arch de tRump

misia.d's avatar
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Teen french bride Karoline Leavitt referred to it as an Arc. I think an Ark is a great idea, Bravo! An Ark big enough for the whole Fist (sic) Family, 1/2 of Congress, the cabinet and lots of wondrous animals. No guns or weapons allowed! No molesting of animals allowed either.

Stephen Wunderlich's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

God bless you.👍🙏😊

Al Gorythm's avatar

He’s done gone and swamped the drain again.

This looks like a job that Markwayne Mullin is actually qualified for.

Kathy's avatar

I read that Trump referred the Mario brothers- Mario and Luigi- to work on the strait’s plumbing issue

John Townsend's avatar

Time to pour those ice cubes down the sink!

Jim Dygert's avatar

“If there is a large enough parcel of land available after the renovations we plan to build a golf course on it…and it will be like no other golf course in the world “…

Jim Dygert's avatar

Absolutely! Only the best!

Robert E.'s avatar

And Golden Showers in the ClubHouse.

Jodie Pine's avatar

Platinum might be too classy - he'd want the gaudy fake gold, don't you think?

Kathy's avatar
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How about a landing strip?Trump can offer to pay for it with Americans’ tax-payer $

Irna Gadd's avatar

You’re really sticking it to Felon47 (aka Harangutan) with this one, Andy. He deserves every bit of ridicule you (and we, your readers) dish out. As Pradnya Sikand said (above), this is a brilliant and hilarious start to the week. I can’t thank you enough - laughter is an essential component of good health. REALLY - and those who didn’t know that, look it up. Andy for Secretary of Health and Human Services!!!

Irna Gadd's avatar

Another of Andy’s readers used it a while ago. I was so tickled by it that I have used it on and off as one of the many ways to refer to the monster in the White-and-Gold House. I can’t wait until I can call it the White House again. It can’t come soon enough to suit me.

Laura Allen-Simpson's avatar

I think antichrist is sufficient. But I also like Circus Peanut because it's orange, it's associated with a circus, and it has no real substance. Also, it tastes like banana, so it's a bait-and-switch.

Wendy Tucker's avatar

It's tuhwoo-- it's tuhwoo. Full credit to the wonderful Madeline Kahn and Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles.

James R Winston's avatar

And the Pope agreed to bless it.

ROSEMARY SCHLICK's avatar

Thanks, Andy. I laughed at your placement of important words as I tried again to figure out how a great mind works. Then I went to the comments and saw all the clever responses. The TBR and its readers give hope to my world. I am so old and tired, all I can say is I hope the whole tRump cabal goes STRAIT to hell.

Pradnya Sikand's avatar

Happy Monday Andy ! Brilliant and hilarious start to another week of Trump madness! 😂I hope the Ayatollah does not have the same luck as Trump and his renovations! Of course marble, gold and self promotion will definitely do the trick ! Thanks! 😂💕

Penelope Guyton's avatar

So funny Andy - and great comments everyone. There's almost nothing left to say except something about a gold-plated toilet and I'm hovering over that one!

John  (NJ-VT)'s avatar

“The golden pilers were spectacular!” Family of sixteen, eating cheese sandwiches and drinking sea water going through the Strait with their 16 foot row boat.

Henry Cohen's avatar

I hope that the toll booth, in addition to having marble armrests, will be gold plated.

Mary Kellogg's avatar

I'm actually concerned about the well-being of any employee who has to sit in the marble-arm-rested toll booth seat. It's difficult to imagine a light-weight comfy-cushioned seat being up to the demands of the marble armrests. Has anyone considered how long a toll collector can sit on such a seat before the screams of his nerves override his ability to calculate the tolls.

Please note: I'm concerned about EMPLOYEE well-being here: the boss is free to make his own rules and change them whenever his bum gets numb.