MAD About the Trump Era

by Various

Various (Illustrator)

As we enter the second half of President Donald Trump s interminable, unimpeachable reign, MAD feels it s high time to commemorate our steady slide into annihilation with a brand new collection of caricature, mockery and ridicule: MAD About the Trump Era! In this sequel to the best-selling MAD About Trump: A Brilliant Look at Our Brainless President, America s most pompous, pernicious, and repugnant president gets another relentless roast inside the MAD oven! You ll retch as you relive the tortured memories of the past two years. Who can forget brainless ideas like Space Force, petty nicknames such as Rocket Man, despicable policies like family separation at the Mexican border, and Trump s constant cries of Witch hunt! and No collusion as we watched his closest cronies get carted off to jail. All the face-palming stupidity, casual cruelty, racist enabling, bald-faced lying, 3 am Tweeting, and much more is lampooned for your Executive Time enjoyment! Written and drawn in ink mixed with liberal tears by the Usual Gang of Idiots, MAD About the Trump Era is sure to make you long for the sweet satisfaction you used to find in things like elections, Twitter, and the American Dream.

• ISBN10: 1401293468
• ISBN13: 9781401293468
• Publish Date: 7 May 2019
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 8 February 2023
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: DC Comics
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 128
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781401293468

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

MAD About the Trump Era is an anthology collection of typically sarcastic, caustic, MAD humor. Due out 7th May 2019 from DC/Mad, it's 128 pages and available in paperback format.

Mad (and E.C. comics) has a long history of lampooning current events, culture, politics, etc. I grew up on a steady diet of their skewering everything from climate and films to political figures. I have been a lifelong fan of Mad, and still follow Sergio Aragones, Al Jaffee and others from those halcyon days. This collection adheres to the spirit of those bygone days, if not stringently to the contributors.

Many of this collections' entries are from the MadBlog or other issues of the magazine. They're all indexed and credited in the table of contents. This is a collection to be read a little at a time, lest the reader be (literally) saddened and nauseated by the state of the union.

Anyhow, this collection is full of brutally sarcastic humor. Basically everyone with any sort of profile in the Trump orbit gets skewered in this collection.

I enjoyed it in small, measured doses. It's important to remember to go read something else for a while if readers find their blood pressure spiking or experience desperation and/or depression.

Four stars, love Mad magazine.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes