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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The joke is that, according to the cartoonist, America has never been the "good guy." Donald Trump did not invent America "bad guy" status. The Gitmo prisoners remind the seated newspaper reader about "American bad guy stuff" that happened (or at least started) before Trump was a political force.