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Andy Borowitz's avatar

While Metamucilini is scaring away tourists by sending troops to US cities, tourism to Somalia surged 50 percent last year. (I am not making this up!)

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Andy Borowitz's avatar

When Trump calls Somalis “garbage,” I respond: how many Somalis are in the Epstein files?

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Nancy "Bee" Bayerle's avatar

I would prefer having 100% Somali neighbors to one MAGA in my hood.

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Ellen Mandel's avatar

me too!

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Angelo Filigenzi's avatar

And me.

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Wendy Tucker's avatar

Moi, aussi.

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John Townsend's avatar

Moi aussi, encore!

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Mary Roeser's avatar

Ego, quoque!!! That's "me, too" in Latin!!!

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elizabeth's avatar

100%

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Elisabeth Birker's avatar

You’re almost too good, Andy!😂😂😂. Naah…keep ‘em coming! Thank you❣️

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Annette's avatar

Ever grateful you only speak the truth, Andy!

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Susan Stone's avatar

This is one of the best comebacks I could imagine.

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Quizzically Bemused's avatar

That should terminate further speculative geographical aspersions.

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John Townsend's avatar

Not holding my breath.....

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Charlene's avatar

Two more weeks and we'll find out if they've AI'd any in or not.

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Ellen Mandel's avatar

YES!!! BRILLIANT!!!

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John Townsend's avatar

Zilch-o-rama!

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Cindy Froggatt's avatar

I am hoping when we deport Trump, Somalia will agree to imprisoning him.

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Susan Stone's avatar

You would do that to Somalia?? I would suggest a gulag in Siberia as a fairer choice to everybody.

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Diana's avatar

Gulag in Siberia? Perfect! Russia should be stuck with him.

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

Preferably the gulag where putrid imprisoned Mr. Navalny. With luck, putrid will get trapped there as well🤨

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John Townsend's avatar

Yes, universe make that happen, please!

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Natalie Parker's avatar

Oh, Susan! Great minds run in the same vein!

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Susan Stone's avatar

I like the way you think, Natalie! You've put a smile on my face.

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John Townsend's avatar

--right along the anti-anxiety meds many of us need with Trump!

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John Townsend's avatar

Next to a cage with a Siberian tiger!

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Susan Stone's avatar

Except for one thing: I like those Amur tigers. And I wouldn't want one to have to be near trump. That said, it would probably scare the shit out of trump, because they are very large, very opinionated cats. Maybe trump should be in the cage, with the tiger running around loose?

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Mary Roeser's avatar

I like the way you think!

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Natalie Parker's avatar

I was hoping that this shithole president would be sent to Russia. I think Putin would be happy to host him for a short layover and then to ship him off to a gulag in Siberia.

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Susan Moss's avatar

I think Saudi Arabia is the likely endgame for Trump. Enough goldleaf to shut him up.

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Cindy Froggatt's avatar

But they would let Trump live in luxury…

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Penny Pawl's avatar

but we would be spared his daily statements and face view

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Natalie Parker's avatar

Fingers crossed....

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Jim Yoder's avatar

if he lives that long and can remember how to get there. On another note, I have guessed that the rage induced posts that he does on truth social are Ketamine induced disassociated hallucinations.

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Barbara Handler's avatar

I think he's demented and sundowning.

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Jim Yoder's avatar

I think you may be right about that too

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John Townsend's avatar

--on a mobile home alone in the desert!

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Stan Duffner's avatar

Putin would gladly show him the window view from top story of kremlin. He could give him his special treatment of how fast you can get to the ground floor

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Jim Yoder's avatar

🤣

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Wendy Tucker's avatar

Wouldn't it be wonderful if Putin could invite him for what fof THINKS is a Big (bigly) Deal Major Award, complete with a parade, military goose-stepping, bands playing, followed by a banquet and speeches honoring him. But when fof is escorted to podium, he's cuffed and gagged and hauled away. Off to the worst of all possible prisons. Meanwhile, Melanomia and Putin will high five and hump in full public view.

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John Townsend's avatar

Such wild fantasies.....there must be a medication for that.

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Bill's avatar

Or “impoisioning” him

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HJ Michaels's avatar

I prefer sending him to GITMO

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Jim Yoder's avatar

no then he would still be living off the public tit.

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MLK's avatar

The Somalis are too smart for that. Only another dumbass country like Russia would allow Dump a long-term stay.

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SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

Are you kidding? With his usefulness over, he'd be right out the window like

the last guy.

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Angelo Filigenzi's avatar

If only we could deport the idiot in chief and truly Make America Great Again.

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BTAM Master's avatar

Have you ever made anything up?

"The truth goes in before the name goes on: Borowitz"

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Pradnya Sikand's avatar

😂You always tell the truth 😉You’re prescient and the Somalia tourism minister is smiling 😉

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Nancy "Bee" Bayerle's avatar

Andy Borowitz for Prescient! Er, I mean Andy Borowitz for PRESIDENT!

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John  (NJ-VT)'s avatar

I’m always looking for something interesting. Years ago, NYT travel show actually had a booth for travel tour to Chernobyl. You can’t make this shit up. Me wife and I did not go, but did take memorabilia.

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Catharine Farkas's avatar

Did you check for radioactivity?🤪

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John  (NJ-VT)'s avatar

They said that everyone on the tour had on a detector for that. Which basically said “run!” when it went yellow and “you’re fucked!!!” when red.

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SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

LOL

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Marcia Z Bookstein's avatar

Or mental activity back in the US?

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Al Keim's avatar

You can fly to DC too!

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

I’m sure you are regretting passing up such a radiating opportunity, John🤔 But you are in luck: I heard you could get a 1000% discount if you buy your ticket within the next two weeks🤓🖖🏻

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howard levitt's avatar

With that level of tourism, it's time for a Trump hotel in Somalia.

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Sandra Nicht's avatar

I would never do that to Somalia....

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Debra MacKillop's avatar

Metamucilini is so awesome

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Sarah McAuliffe-Bellin's avatar

Even if you were I would still appreciate the sentiment

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Gjay15's avatar

Wow thank you for that piece of information. The thug in the White House and his barnacles always bolster themselves by punching down. They bring out the worst in all of us. There is no group that can any longer claim nobility based on being oppressed. Just look at those of us who put this bastard and his thugs in such powerful positions, every gender, ethnic group, race , religion and socioeconomic group is represented.

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bruce schneider's avatar

That's relative. What are the absolute numbers? Pondering Somalia vs Miami Beach this winter.

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Steven's avatar

When I listen to trump rant, I hear 100% projection of him and his cohorts.

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Pat Goudey OBrien's avatar

😲👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

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John Townsend's avatar

Not surprised somehow. Maybe Disney will put the next Disneyland there?

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Steve Benko's avatar

Said another, "And we're not worried for our brethren already in the U.S., as we believe your non-drinking president meant to say it's sommeliers - wine stewards - he's planning to get rid of, shipping them off to tastings in the Condo."

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David's avatar

What pairs well with hamburders? Chateau de Covfefe?

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John Townsend's avatar

Only if it is carbonated!

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Jodie Pine's avatar

I don't think the country of Condo would let him in. Can you imagine the orange man standing in an airport (if he didn't already have people making arrangements for him) arguing with an airline service rep, insisting he has to go to Condo? They wouldn't take that shit for one second!

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Hugh Jarce's avatar

Especially after they e smiled his passport from Nambia.

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Jodie Pine's avatar

Nambia is the capital of Condo, right?

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John Townsend's avatar

One of two: Scambia is the ceremonial one!

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Hugh Jarce's avatar

Probably.

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Hugh Jarce's avatar

How does examined become e smiled?

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

Secretary of education, Linda McMahon, was responsible for writing the spellcheck software 🤓🖖🏻

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Hugh Jarce's avatar

So true. A skill set she picked up while studying at rump university.

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ChezyT's avatar

I think the country is the Congo.

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SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

Incidently, the top honcho in the Congo said that

Trump didn't end the war there...it rages on.

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SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

So..drop that to seven. Just sayin'

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John Townsend's avatar

Drop it to zero...just kibbitzing!

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John Townsend's avatar

--on two-buck Chuck!

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Ellen Hackman's avatar

I am almost speechless that our country is being run by a third grade bully and the military

by an insecure drunk who is out to prove his “manhood”. I’m in my eighties and have never seen the country in such a mess with no sense of honor or integrity

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David's avatar

Exactly, Ellen!

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Debra MacKillop's avatar

I'm 72 and so with you on all of this. I remember living in DC during Watergate hearings and grateful the hearings happened and Nixon out. That should have happened here but now the GOP are just enablers/co-conspirators.

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Marjorie's avatar

Ditto to Debra & Ellen. I also remember the Watergate hearings, and how the elected officials finally came around and voted against Nixon. Some were in tears, but they did the right thing. Very nostalgic.

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Annette's avatar

the GOP still tend to do the right thing . . . but its for themselves

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MLK's avatar

Let's not forget an FBI director whose primary mission is using take govt jets to see his girlfriend.

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Nancy "Bee" Bayerle's avatar

Which is just wrong, but the biggest surprise of "Cash" is that he HAS a girlfriend.....

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Anne Strohm's avatar

LOL

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John Townsend's avatar

Why doesn't Trump lend him the Qatari jet? Stingy, stingy......

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Martha Loomis's avatar

Just sayin', I lived through George Lincoln Rockwell (1950s +)

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John Townsend's avatar

--out of Hell!

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Wendy Tucker's avatar

Me too. We lived through the apathy of Ike, the increasing loathing of LBJ, Tricky Dicky (& short lived Spiro), Poor Old Bewildered Ronnie, Papa & Dubya Bushie, -- we made signs and waved our fingers in the air and had rallies and talked about how horrible they were. But the sheer unadulterated fury at this demented and inherently cruel creature exceeds anything. ANYTHING.

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John Townsend's avatar

ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING!

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Hugh Jarce's avatar

That's impressive. Of course I lived through the Norman invasion and the Crusades. Then, after lunch I had to sort out the Battle of the Somme. All in a day's work.

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Gerry Boyce's avatar

Ellen I’m 77 and agree wholeheartedly

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SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

Me either, Ellen.

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carol corsaro's avatar

Ditto!⛄️

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Terri Smith's avatar

The blatant racism of this administration continues to astound me.

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Andy Borowitz's avatar

It started with Reagan calling out "The Welfare Queen." Trump has taken it to a new level, however.

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Babydoc's avatar

Andy, you stole that from me. I have been hocking my friends for years that all this bullshit started with Reagan and "welfare queens in Cadillacs". Have any of these idiots every interacted with someone on government support? Of course not. It's not a fun life.

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Steve Newman's avatar

With T it’s simple. If you’re not like me or you don’t at least pretend to love me, you’re out, stupid & need to be punished.

This kind of thinking cuts down on all that effort of unnecessary pesky thinking. When he says many of his big decisions are from my gut I think maybe his acid soaked brain somehow ended up in there.

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John Townsend's avatar

along with the rest of his personality

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Steve Newman's avatar

Ohhh I realize that’s just a crumb of that shit cake.

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

And Reagan was, and agent orange is, a Teflon president 🤨

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John Townsend's avatar

Teflon crackpots!

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Finn Frock's avatar

Gulf of Racism.

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Franca Garofalo's avatar

These nighttime incoherent rants and daytime unscheduled naps show that Metamucillini is in serious mental decline and his sundowning is extremely dangerous.

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Liz Schick's avatar

Trump is spiraling out of control. His handlers must be having fits right now.I love his name Metamucilini. It’s so apt. He just keeps pooping over everything and everyone. He can’t stop.

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J Cheng's avatar

Andy always has great pix on these posts. Metamucilin looks like a toddler making #2 in his diaper....

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SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

It's between Metamucilini and Don Snorleone for me.

Love them both. lol

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

Metamucilini is great. Another of my favorites, from Jeff Tiedrich, is Preznit Fuckwit🤓

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John Townsend's avatar

Don Snorleone- a person for whom the words "God" and "father" are so far apart!

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Wendy Tucker's avatar

Do you think he has Depends shipped in a container trimmed with gold? Just in case ?

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Annette's avatar

while Kegsbreath has his "fog of war," his incompetent lord and master has his own "fog of BS"

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SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

Just plain fog, if you ask me.

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John Townsend's avatar

Yet, the fog still stinks.....

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Suzanne's avatar

Just who are his "handlers" anyway? As Trump likes to say about reporters, they're doing a terrible job.

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John Townsend's avatar

With his crapping over all and sundry, he should be as thin as a rake!

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Ray Sturm's avatar

Dumpy's words about Somalis were disgusting. There is another group, that is part of our citizenry, that should not vote for Dumpy. I am even more disgusted with the gutless wonders that are supposed to represent us. There should be a united voice that is loud and clear; HE IS THE WORST, MOST IGNORANT SCHMUCK! WHAT HE SAYS IS TOTALLY DEPRAVED AND SHOWS HE ONLY CARES ABOUT HIMSELF. IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH

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Jodie Pine's avatar

Schmuck is way too nice a word.

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Ray Sturm's avatar

As a former New Yorker the word schmuck resonates with a deep, deep, ugly meaning. Dumpy Don is the epitome of this idea.

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Wendy Tucker's avatar

I'm in LA....schmuck is very acceptable and appropriate.

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SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

Agreed Ray. Schmuck is perfect

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Sharon P's avatar

There really isn't any word to describe that (47th)

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John Townsend's avatar

--other than the 47th f**k-up!

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Finn Frock's avatar

Sharon.

How about Monster?

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

Creature from the Black Lagoon?

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Sharon P's avatar

nope there are some good ones out there right? ;-}

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

Then IMPRISON, IMPRISON, IMPRISON 🤨

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Dorothy Donahey's avatar

You nailed it as usual. Sometimes I wonder how you can keep coming up with funny stuff when the rest of us are wringing our heads and crying. Keep it up! Thank you! ❤️

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Wendy Tucker's avatar

But thank you, our beloved and admired Andy, for so doing.

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Erik Staub's avatar

The real garbage are the Trump family. They are unintelligent takers who scam and take but contribute nothing;r ather they desecrate the airwaves, our democracy and what can you expect from a child raised by a sympathetic Nazi and Klan father and grandfather. All you have to see is his hair, skin and his lack of knowledge, culture or aesthetic taste. He is a fucking disgrace to humanity.

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nacreplus2's avatar

He's always projecting... Also, don't forget that the original money for buying up New York real estate came from a California gold rush brothel. Come to think of it, maybe that's where the weird fixation on gold originated in the family.

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Annette's avatar

anyone within six degrees of separation from ConOLD is suspect to be classified as garbage

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John Townsend's avatar

--except Mary Trump, her wife and her brother, his wife and children.

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Annette's avatar

thank you for the revision, John . . . I should have been more specific

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Annie D Stratton's avatar

Your statement is very much like the things Trump says about people he needs to demean in order to justify his existance. Do you really feel so uncomfortable about who you are that you need to emulate him?

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Stan Duffner's avatar

Andy is a satirical trumpy is spouting his true beliefs. I don't believe Andy is emulating him. He is trying to show people just how big of a creep our current "leader" is

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Annette's avatar

well said, Stan

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The Rickster's avatar

Didn’t know much about Michael and Susan Dell, but they’re certainly trying to shine the image.

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Annette's avatar

my question is, and has been, what are they receiving for their donation?

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SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

First dance in the ballroom?

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Lynne's avatar

If I had to choose between living next to a Somali or t rump, the choice is obvious! This is coming from a New Yorker who lives less than a mile from t rump's childhood home. T rump is unhinged and a disgusting excuse for a human being.

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Sam Popkin's avatar

Metamucillini: King of Somnalia!

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Sam Popkin's avatar

Thanks!

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

I tell it like it is 🖖🏻🤓

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Joan Cross's avatar

Thank you Andy for giving us laughter that starts the day off right. Your brilliance is priceless! And you do post the TRUTH!

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Janice Farley's avatar

So true. I was just in Italy and a waiter there told me his favorite president was Bernie Sanders. Mine too. If only.

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John Townsend's avatar

Smart waiter who's clairvoyant?

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Cindy Froggatt's avatar

Let Trump sleep. That may be how we finally get out of this mess.

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Dana Campbell's avatar

Trumpelstiltskin?

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Bobbie75's avatar

I think you mean Trump Van Winkle.

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Dana Campbell's avatar

That's it!!!! ❤️

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John Townsend's avatar

May he sleep for a thousand years, instead of only twenty!

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J Cheng's avatar

or Trumpelshitskin.....

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Annette's avatar

<standing ovation>

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Cindy Froggatt's avatar

Dana - what does that mean?

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Dana Campbell's avatar

Grimm's Fairy Tales figure Rumplestiltskin spins straw into gold. But Bobbie75 is right

I was thinking of another fairy tale figure who took a record long nap: Rip Van Winkle.

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Bobbie75's avatar

Dana, I had to think a minute because I thought you had it right.

Both start with R and have four syllables.

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Catt woman's avatar

Rip Van Winkle is a character in a Washington Irving short story by the same name. He fell asleep under a tree and woke up 20 years later.

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Jennifer Elsea's avatar

I’m guessing it’s a reference to the fascination with gold, or possibly all of the spinning.

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Bobbie75's avatar

Maybe that is Melania’s skill. Spinning straw into gold.

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Dana Campbell's avatar

Hahaha!

They both actually fit!

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John Townsend's avatar

The opposite, more like!

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Cindy Froggatt's avatar

I am really curious about who wakes Trump from his public naps. Has anyone seen a clip of that? Do they nudge him? Or do they wait until he wakes himself up?

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Jan Fabiyi's avatar

I think they all pretend not to notice, and act accusatorially against anyone who points it out. There! it didn't happen! Just like reducing the number of COVID tests available reduces the number of people dying from the disease. It's magic!

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Annette's avatar

I imagine its gas bubbles that wake him from his slumber

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John Townsend's avatar

Do they hold a small mirror in front to see if it fogs?

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Stan Duffner's avatar

They hope he stays asleep so sweat Caroline doesn't have to justify his rants as truths

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Cindy Froggatt's avatar

I’d love to know the duration of these naps. Someone must be clocking them, right? I want to see a full set of stats!

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Irna Gadd's avatar

I absolutely LOVE the info that tourism to Somalia is surging. I know you don’t make this up, Andy. Unlike Metamucillini and his sycophants, you tell the truth.

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Corlis Robe's avatar

If I wasn't already a paid subscriber, I would pay up if only for articles like today's. THANK YOU, Andy.

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Andy Borowitz's avatar

You are welcome to give a gift subscription to someone you love!

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