This short cartoon perfectly, brutally captures the fallout from Trump's TV-tweeting

Tom Tomorrow imagines Trump live-tweeting Gilligans Island

(Image credit: Screenshot/Twitter/Tom Tomorrow)

If you read or watch the news, you probably know the routine: America's 71-year-old tweeter-in-chief, President Trump, has his phone handy while watching TV, and he tweets out something that sets Washington's hair on fire. The news media drops everything to report Trump's 140-character thoughts and analyze the tweet, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defends it, and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is asked to respond live on cable news. You might find this Trump-tweet media ecosystem sad, but cartoonist Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) found it darkly comical. In his short cartoon, for Topic's The Nib, Tomorrow imagines the fallout from Trump angrily live-tweeting classic 1960s TV shows, and it's frighteningly plausible. Watch below. Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.