An editorial cartoon from Ben Sargent. Donald Trump sits on a throne-like chair and tells the figure across from him—a small individual wearing a KKK hood and labeled "GOP", staring in the mirror—that he looks "fabulous". The figure responds, "Thank you, sir."

Loon Star: The Elephant in the Room

Ben Sargent on the GOP’s racism. Trump will be in Dallas for a rally on October 17.

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To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section, or find Observer political reporting here.

is the Texas Observer's longtime cartoonist. He launched his career drawing editorial cartoons for the Austin American-Statesman in 1974. He was born in Amarillo into a newspaper family and learned the printing trade from age 12 and started working for the local daily as a proof runner at 14. He attended Amarillo College and received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970. Sargent won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1982. He has also received awards from Women in Communications, Inc., Common Cause of Texas, and Cox Newspapers. He is the author of Texas Statehouse Blues (1980) and Big Brother Blues (1984).

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