Cartoons Friday!

Plus: Remember Pearl Harbor (but not like this), Kimmel and Colbert, latest on war and the Trump coinage....

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For start of baseball season next week: Colbert cold open of course involves Trump.

And Jimmy, with Trump’s now infamous Pearl Harbor “joke.”

Trump Jokes About Pearl Harbor in Meeting With Japan’s Leader

Breaking a taboo, Trump needled Japan’s prime minister about the World War II attack, as she widened her eyes and appeared to take a deep breath in the Oval Office. Well, she could have said dropping atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also sneak attacks, and they killed at least 175,000 civilians.

From one Twitter wag: “For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.”

And from another: “Why are the standards higher for The Bachelorette than the President of the United States?” Another adds: “And The Bachelorette has higher ratings, too.”

Then there’s this:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arts commission clears the way for US Mint to produce Trump commemorative gold coin to mark America's 250th anniversary.

Greed is the only thing keeping Trump from dropping a nuke on Iran

Trump casually mentioned yesterday that he could end the Iran war in “two seconds.” Old buddy Lucian K. Truscott IV:

So, what’s he going to do? Trump would just love to lob a couple of nukes at Iran, but there is the not-terribly-small problem of world markets….

Thank goodness for crypto. Thank goodness Donald Trump was born with his hand in a cookie jar – or is it Big Mac jar? – and has never pulled his hand out of it.

Here is something I never thought I’d say: Greed is good, especially when it’s Donald Trump’s greed. It’s going to save us…hopefully.

Poetry, in Motion

A new doc about poet Mary Oliver coming and with a PBS American Masters soon: Featuring poems read by Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Jesse Welles, and Oprah Winfrey. Trailer here:

Music Pick

Great little mini-doc as Smithsonian Folkways pays tribute to one of the most important music archivist of the past century, Harry Smith:

From Tunes to Toons

Chloe Cushman:

Luckovich:

Bennett:

Photo Finish

San Francisco de Asis, church in Taos, NM, made famous by painters and photographers.