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Dave Brown takes a dig at Trump and North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un’s indecisive nuclear summit in Hanoi. He shows Kim smoking a miniature nuclear missile and blowing smoke in Trump’s face.
The New York Times recently reported that US President Donald Trump overruled objections from the security establishment and ordered officials to issue top-secret security clearance to his son-in-law and senior administrative aide Jared Kushner. Adam Zyglis mocks this by showing a vending machine in White House that also sells top security clearances.
Kevin Siers mocks Trump’s comments that his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who delivered an unsettling testimony against the President before the US Congress, is a liar. Trump is shown standing with his ‘friends’ Kim Jong Un, Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and saying he knows a liar when he sees one.
The opposition Labour Party has alleged that Britain’s transport secretary Chris Grayling has cost the taxpayer 2.7 billion pounds in his time in various government departments, including the latest 33 million pound out-of-court settlement with Eurotunnel over the Brexit ferry deal. Morten Morland shows a clean-up crew stating that nothing can be declared safe until there are no more traces of Grayling left.
Peter Brookes uses Eisenstaedt’s iconic Life magazine photograph of the sailor kissing the nurse at the end of World War II in Times Square to mock Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un’s ‘relationship’ after the Hanoi nuclear summit.
Christian Adam uses Eric Morecambe’s famous quote “I’m playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order” to mock British Prime Minister Theresa May’s handling of the Brexit crisis.