Thursday Cartoons: Burn down the White House

Are you wondering why they’ve got fire hoses spraying the East Wing demolition work?To keep down the asbestos- and lead-paint-containing debris.The structure is over eighty years old.Try doing _that_ in your suburban residential neighborhood teardown project!

— Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. (@mdgarfinkel.bsky.social) 2025-10-22T18:25:38.063Z

Interested if anyone knows the status of the East Wing asbestos, lead, etc & if testing/mitigation steps are being taken to keep air quality & water run-off, etc safe. These Qs come to mind….y'know, given the entire demo didn't bother w/proper approval steps & all. 🫩www.epa.gov/sites/defaul…

— idesigngal (@jenhammell.bsky.social) 2025-10-22T18:18:26.033Z

How is somebody so stupid and so clearly corrupt never stopped and never held accountable?

— (@true-republic.bsky.social) 2025-10-22T20:48:27.217Z

Q: How does Trump get away with destroying the historic East Wing of the White House without any discussions or approvals from Congress?A: Dictatorship.

— Jeffry Bazooka (@jeffrybazooka.bsky.social) 2025-10-22T18:28:01.620Z

Yes. The through line here is nakedly corrupt self-dealing. Trump is looting the people's money while demolishing the people's White House and replacing it with a gilded monstrosity that is his own personal plaything.

— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) 2025-10-22T21:43:30.164Z

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

— ProPublica (@propublica.org) 2025-10-23T03:00:09.73451872Z