Cheater’s Gonna Cheat: Trump’s Desperate to Cheat His Way Out of Midterm Losses

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President Donald J. Trump wrecked Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s summer by refusing to sign the bipartisan housing bill and holding it hostage to Congress passing the incredibly partisan Save America Act. The Save America Act is a foul piece of legislation that is designed to suppress the votes of women, low-income Americans, rural voters, students, military personnel, and Native Americans. 

If Congress refuses to pass the act, Trump will seek other methods to cheat his way to success. I would wager he already has projects underway to reduce Democratic voter turnout that we aren’t aware of yet. 

He will set ICE loose on blue cities when early voting starts, to try and scare people into not leaving their homes. A federal judge recently ruled against Trump’s effort to have the Postal Service manage a list of voters. The idea was to have the USPS reject ballots for delivery to anyone not on the voter list. This is absurd and it was shot down by a court, but that doesn’t mean the Trump team won’t still do it and dare to be taken to court later. 

I have to give a hat tip to Greg Sargent and Amanda Marcotte for crystalizing Trump’s uncontrollable urges to cheat to win the 2026 midterm elections.

While you’re here enjoying DonkeyHotey’s latest cartoon, please take a moment to read these articles on related topics: 

• Trump Refuses to Sign HoAcusing Bill to Force tion on SAVE America Act
• The SAVE Trump Act: Only Mostly Dead
• Republicans May Get Ensnared in Their Own SAVE America Act Trap
• Trump Tries Another Blatantly Unconstitutional Midterm-Rigging Scheme
• We Will Keep Shouting It From the Rooftops: Trump Plans to Rig the Midterms
• Crazy Old Man Worried About the Midterms Rants About Voter ID
• Other DonkeyHotey cartoons

The cartoon above was created by DonkeyHotey for WhoWhatWhy from these images: Donald Trump caricature (DonkeyHotey / Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0), body (NASA / Wikimedia – PD), road (Alexander Droeger / Pixabay), US Capitol (Architect of the Capitol / Wikimedia – PD), sign (Peter Mooney / Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0), and landscape (Judgefloro / Wikimedia – CC0 1.0).