Trump: Road Runner or Coyote?
By: Jim West
Tags: Humor, Choices, Cartoon, Politics, Trump

Trump: Road Runner or Coyote?

Looney Tunes

We are DJB and Jim West, and we are starting a new project to bring you both sides of political issues. Jim will be providing the Red View, DJB the Blue View. We will assume that each of our beliefs are based on goodwill and positive intention. It’s important to understand this because much of the divide in our country comes from assuming evil intent upon the other. Too often, we assassinate each other’s characters with labels like “racist” or “Nazi” or “dope” without listening. Let’s stop doing that. We believe we can have disagreements while accepting the person. We hope our stories will enlighten, promote understanding and maybe even narrow the political divides in America. Your input is appreciated and encouraged; we just ask that everyone be respectful and civil in the comments.

To start this experiment, we open with something more light hearted. This election has been so heavy, like an anvil on our souls. Let’s try to have little fun.

So, is Trump the Road Runner or Wile E. Coyote?

The Red View:

After some intense and overwhelming research inspecting cartoons, it is obviously (and painfully) clear that Trump is the Road Runner.

First off, can we all agree that Trump has a limited vocabulary (Meep Meep)? See, even that isn’t a word, kind of like “bigly.” (It’s actually a word but hasn’t been used for 300 years. Thankfully, Trump stopped using it too.)

Secondly, aside from his speed, the Road Runner isn’t exceptional in any way. He doesn’t make elaborate plans or conjure up intricate escape routes to get away. He just runs. He’s kind of simple that way. When being chased by Wile E., who is closing ground because he has a missile strapped to his back, Road Runner just follows the road around the bluff or stops before the cliff while Coyote plummets to his fate over and over. Let’s just say the Road Runner is not playing 3-dimensional chess.

The interesting part is how well Wile E. Coyote represents the Democrats and the media. How many times have we seen the Dems and media set a trap for Trump: spying on his campaign, collusion with Russia, peddling influence on a Ukrainian phone call, impeachment, yet Trump always slips away. Again, he’s not brilliant about it. He just stops before the cliff to let the Dems and the media make fools of themselves while they get caught spying, and even their top coyote, Mueller, found no crimes.

Pelosi too, always knew that impeachment wouldn’t be successful because she didn’t have the Senate on her side, but she did it anyway, kind of like how Wile E. scans the pages of the Acme Catalog looking for a new trick to catch the avian speedster. He finds powerful magnets, rocket propelled roller skates, sticky tar, and giant malfunctioning springs. With his luck, he ought to know these tricks won’t work, but he uses them anyway, just like Pelosi.

One more: sometimes we see Wile E. Coyote focused on building his latest contraption when the Road Runner suddenly appears by his side and startles him with a meep meep. Coyote’s response usually starts a Rube Goldberg event where eventually a rock falls on his head. This is like when Trump started poking the bear (or coyote) back in the 2016 campaign when he said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” There was no laughter in the room because he was talking to humorless reporters, but the rest of us Road Runner fans thought it was pretty funny.

I rest my case. Given the antics of Wile E. Coyote and the ever elusive Road Runner, I think the evidence shows that Trump is the Road Runner. Have I made my case?