I thought, Elissa Slotkin, looks JUST LIKE A PIGGY.
There’s a reason libraries used to be silent.
This week, I found myself reflecting on two moments that collided in the cartoon I share today.
The first: Donald Trump’s now viral rebuke, “Quiet, piggy,” spoken during a media scuffle, quickly spun into memes, headlines, and even fashion. Tshirts everywhere were being made. I said I had to do it.
To some, it was a moment of comic catharsis. To others, evidence of masculinity. But more than either it was a symbol of line drawing. A command to hush the shrill, manufactured moralism of those who shout down dissent while cloaking themselves in the language of virtue.
Then came the second: Trump’s call for the arrest of lawmakers like Elissa Slotkin and the SEDITIOUS SIX accusing them of sedition for collaborating in a video that encouraged military defiance of “unlawful” Trump orders. The response was predictable .. Slotkin claimed she was under 24-hour protection, called the accusations “sad,” and doubled down: “We refuse to be intimidated.” I was going to add that part in my cartoon but made it shorter, simpler.
Elissa Slotkin is doing media tours and being asked if there’s any evidence that Trump has issued “Illegal Orders”
In each instance, the answer is no… but he could. 🤦🏻♂️
She and the others needs to be charged with treason.
In today’s cartoon, I collapse these two scenes into one: a pig-faced Slotkin, now librarian of the new regime, sneering at a curious Mamdani who dares to ask about Franklin Delano Roosevelt a Democrat, mind you, but also a wartime nationalist who served MORE TERMS than allowed. His presidency broke the two-term tradition. Slotkin responds with: “We don’t carry books by fascists. Oink!” From the back corner of the library, Trump looks up from his book and delivers it again:
“Quiet, piggy.”
This piece isn’t just mockery it’s prophecy. The American Left, increasingly un moored from its own historical icons, now disowns the very legacies that made them relevant. FDR? Too complex. Military codes? Too threatening. Speech? Too dangerous unless pre approved.
What we’re seeing isn’t the defense of democracy. It’s a purification ritual scrubbing history, silencing dissent, and prosecuting opposition under the guise of protecting norms.
But the American barn is awake. And some of us still know the difference between a librarian and a censor. Between a President and a pig.
Also, I wondered if when Trump posed for photos with FDR and Mamdani, if he actually KNEW who he was. So now I made him going to the library, to read, inspired by President Donald Trump meeting.
— Maria
