President Donald Trump took personal attacks on Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Senate candidate James Talarico (D) of Texas to cartoonish lengths on Tuesday.

In a Truth Social post, the president compared their appearances to oddball fictional characters by sharing side-by-side photos of them with their supposed doppelgängers. (The picture of Talarico is doctored to make him look like he’s missing a tooth.)

“Isn’t it strange, the Dumocrats are running a man in Texas who looks virtually identical to Alfred E. Neuman, of MAD Magazine fame and, in Georgia, they’re running someone who looks like a twin to the Late, Great, Pee-wee Herman,” Trump wrote.

He touted the Republicans running against them in November.

“With these two horrible Political Candidates, I don’t know if there’s a genetic tree, but it certainly is close! What do you think? In any event, Mike Collins, of Georgia, should easily beat Pee-wee, and Ken Paxton, of Texas, should easily beat Alfred E. Vote Republican and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Alfred E. Neuman has served as the gap-toothed, freckle-faced cartoon mascot for the satirical MAD magazine, which launched in the 1950s.

Pee-wee Herman was the goofy man-child played by Paul Reubens on TV and in films in the 1980s.

As for the “easily beat” claim of Trump, that may turn out to be fiction as well.

Recent polling indicates a tight race between Talarico and Paxton, the scandal-plagued Texas attorney general, while Ossoff is on track to beat Collins, according to early reports.

Both races are considered critical to Democratic hopes of taking back the U.S. Senate.

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