Editorial cartoon: a House Republican leadership press conference under a backdrop panel reading HOUSE REPUBLICANS. Jim Jordan, in a white dress shirt with no jacket and sleeves rolled up, tie loosened, leans over a podium crowded with microphones and jabs a finger forward. His speech balloon reads: "...AND WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO MAKE MONKEY NOISES AT BLACK PEOPLE." Behind him the leadership each behaves like a monkey in a different way: a silver-haired man scratches under his raised armpit, a brown-haired woman peels a banana, a younger man holds a banana in his mouth like a cigar, a man in glasses hangs one-handed from an overhead pipe with his tie flopping, a man squats on his haunches with knuckles near the floor, and an older greying man holds a banana to his ear like a telephone. Drawn to the desk editor’s direction · rendered with gpt-image-2 on fal.ai
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