Trump is all talk but no action on opioids, infrastructure and other crises; Pruitt out

The resignation of President Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency was welcome news. No one voted for more pollution, but Scott Pruitt did his best to rescind many of the Obama administration's environmental initiatives. As cartoonist Dave Granlund shows, Pruitt was unethical and the equivalent of sewage.

Unfortunately, Pruitt's successor is a former coal lobbyist who is expected to continue the work of destroying the environment and trying to revive the fossil-fuel industries. Cartoonist Bruce Plante of the Tulsa World calls Andrew Wheeler a "lump of coal."

By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- If President Trump has demonstrated anything, it's that talk is cheap.

Despite all his promises to address the opioid and infrastructure crises, little has been accomplished.

Even his summit with the dictator of North Korea and so-called nuclear treaty appear to be unraveling.

As cartoonist Dave Granlund points out, both opioid sales and overdose deaths still are going up.

A proposal to cut Medicaid funding would deprive people who are seeking treatment for drug addiction, causing advocates to question the president's commitment to fight the opioid epidemic, according to the Los Angeles Times. This cartoon is by Nate Beeler of The Columbus Dispatch.