(Laughter.) I love that answer, because it’s better than signing executive orders and then these people take it and they make it look so terrible ― “oh, it’s so terrible.” I love it. We just need kind of some encouragement to move in that direction. BOENTE: I don’t think we need any executive orders. THE PRESIDENT: So do we need any legislation or any executive orders for that, would you say, Dana ― to put that back in business? PARTICIPANT: You shouldn’t be allowed to profit from the illegal proceeds, right? So if you’re going to sell narcotics and sell illegal drugs in our country, you also cannot profit from that. Nobody even understands how a thing like that could have happened. THE PRESIDENT: Sort of like the Iran deal. THE PRESIDENT: Do you even understand the other side of it? THE PRESIDENT: I mean, how simple can anything be? You all agree with that, I assume, right? So, asset forfeiture, we’re going to go back on, okay? I think Congress is going to get beat up really badly by the voters because they’ve let this happen. I don’t know that that will continue now or not. But a lot of pressure is coming out of ― was coming out of Congress. SHERIFF AUBREY: You have to be careful how you speak, I guess. THE PRESIDENT: Who would want that pressure, other than, like, bad people, right? But who would want that pressure? You would think they’d want this stuff taken away. BOENTE: Well, now we’ve just been given ― there’s been a lot of pressure not to forfeit, in some cases. And it was a very successful program, very popular with the law enforcement community. BOENTE: Well, we have what is called equitable sharing, where we usually share it with the local police departments for whatever portion that they worked on the case. So who gets it? What happens to it? Tell them to keep it? THE PRESIDENT: So what do you do? So in other words, they have a huge stash of drugs. But there has been a lot of pressure on the department to curtail some of that. And we have gotten a great deal of criticism for the asset forfeiture, which, as the sheriff said, frequently was taking narcotics proceeds and other proceeds of crime. Dana, do you think there’s any reason for that? Are you aware of this? THE PRESIDENT: I’d like to look into that, okay? There’s no reason for that. SHERIFF AUBREY: They make it political and they make it ― they make up stories. THE PRESIDENT: And that’s for legal reasons? Or just political reasons? SHERIFF AUBREY: No, they have curtailed it a little bit. THE PRESIDENT: So you’re saying ― okay, so you’re saying the asset-taking you used to do, and it had an impact, right? And you’re not allowed to do it now? People want to say we’re taking money and without due process. You can expect that soccer ball that Putin gave Trump to appear in an image in a year or two, probably.SHERIFF AUBREY: And the other thing is asset forfeiture. Half of this gig-drawing topical cartoons-is about saving some absurd or iconic moment and then bringing it up at an unexpected or odd time. Was that image always in your back pocket? This cover is a callback to Trump’s infamous escalator ride. (We’re getting quite far afield from Trump in Helsinki here, aren’t we? Good!) But on Saturday journalists following Trump to Saudi Arabia on his first foreign trip as president shared photos of this 'cultural guide' which said the thumbs up gesture was considered rude or taboo there. And there’s a sequence in “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” of all places-Larry and a young woman are each attempting to arrive at a doctor’s office first-that’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. I love that crazy, elaborate motorcycle scene that Buster Keaton does in “Sherlock Junior.” Or Monty Python’s Silly Walk. There’s something exhilarating and pure about them. You’re right, I have drawn physical gags before, several times.
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