{"id":4431,"date":"2026-02-27T10:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:58:46","slug":"tariffs-upside-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4431","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs Upside the Head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JPA537.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"406\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JPA537.jpg\" alt=\"Political cartoon: Tariffs Upside the Head\" class=\"wp-image-4432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JPA537.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JPA537-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It will help if readers are familiar with slapstick movies from the early 1900s \u2014 Buster Keaton, Laurel &amp; Hardy, Three Stooges, and the like. Specifically the classic bit with a guy carrying a long board on his shoulder and \u2014 as he navigates safely through a construction site \u2014 unknowingly and repeatedly clobbering people with the back end of the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s kind of how I see Trump \u2014 he&#8217;s carrying a board though our country looking out only for himself and either unaware of or uncaring about the collateral damage. It&#8217;s funny in a movie. Not so much when it&#8217;s happening in real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will help if readers are familiar with slapstick movies from the early 1900s \u2014 Buster Keaton, Laurel &amp; Hardy, Three Stooges, and the like. Specifically the classic bit with a guy carrying a long board on his shoulder and \u2014 as he navigates safely through a construction site \u2014 unknowingly and repeatedly clobbering people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}