{"id":4516,"date":"2026-08-28T09:28:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:28:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:28:35","slug":"were-a-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4516","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re a Team!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/JPA563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"417\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/JPA563.jpg\" alt=\"Political Cartoon: We're a Team!\" class=\"wp-image-4517\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/JPA563.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/JPA563-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A trade war with &#8230;Canada? How? Why? And what the actual eff?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer, of course is quite simple: Donald Trump. He thinks the US\/Canada trade relationship (like all relationships) is exactly like a 1970s New York City real estate deal and must be treated as such &#8212; lie, bluster, threaten, flatter, cajole, schmooze, lie, backstab, crime, belittle, complain, lie, stiff anybody who does actual work, and lie. And then ultimately create a &#8220;deal&#8221; that you have every intention of breaking at first convenience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now to understand why Trump sees the whole world this way, that answer is also quite simple: Roy Cohn. Cohn was Trump&#8217;s mentor\/lawyer\/fixer in his formative years of pulling himself up by the bootstraps of daddy&#8217;s fortune. Cohn is the thread that connects McCarthyism to Trumpism. May I suggest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Where&#8217;s My Roy Cohn? (documentary):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ucOtZEu-SKw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ucOtZEu-SKw<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Mentor:\u00a0How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump everything (article):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2026\/08\/10\/roy-cohn-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2026\/08\/10\/roy-cohn-profile<\/a>\u00a0(paywall)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American Scoundrel:\u00a0Roy Cohn&#8217;s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump (book):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/American-Scoundrel\/Kai-Bird\/9781668031575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/American-Scoundrel\/Kai-Bird\/9781668031575<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So before anybody comes at me about Canada possibly being the bad guy, tell me whether you know who Roy Cohn is and if you&#8217;re fine with the way he did business. If yes and yes, don&#8217;t expect a reply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trade war with &#8230;Canada? How? Why? And what the actual eff? The answer, of course is quite simple: Donald Trump. He thinks the US\/Canada trade relationship (like all relationships) is exactly like a 1970s New York City real estate deal and must be treated as such &#8212; lie, bluster, threaten, flatter, cajole, schmooze, lie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","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=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4518,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}