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Summer blues: Top ten cartoons of the week

With everything going on in Washington these days, it’s hard to actually enjoy the summer.

Whether it’s aggressive ICE agents, cuts to public broadcasting, or Trump’s off-and-on tariffs, the beach isn’t enough of a distraction over the dysfunction and short-sightedness of our current government.

That’s the crux of Chris Weyant’s popular cartoon this week, which features a vacationing man whose angry red face is easily confused with sunburn. Dave Granlund’s summer cartoon shows an equally-angry family, but instead of being upset over politics they’re upset about lifeguard shortages and E. coli in the water. Gross.

I did chuckle at John Darkow’s cartoon, which shows ICE agents working in a field, replacing the migrant workers they callously forced out of the country. Enjoy the summer heat!

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. Jeff Koterba

We have a great new Caglecast with 115 cartoons of Trump vs MUSK –Cartoonists love the friction between these two, wacky characters! This also includes a great discussion about Elon Musk cartoons with Dave Whamond, Monte Wolverton, Jeff Koterba and Bob Englehart!

#3. Dave Granund

#4. John Darkow

#5. Bob Englehart

#6. Dave Granlund

#7. Bruce Plante

#8. Chris Weyant

#9. R.J.Matson

#10. John Darkow

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Tariffs and debt: Top ten cartoons of the week

Trying to keep up with news out of Trump’s White House is a Herculean task even the nation’s top cartoons have a hard time pulling off.

Chris Weyant touched on the madness in our most-reprinted cartoon this week, which features a dizzy trade representative nauseous over the administration’s ever-changing tariffs.

R.J. Matson’s cartoon about the national debt, appropriately represented by the Grand Canyon, hit Trump as he tries to push his “big, beautiful” budget bill through the Senate. His former billionaire buddy Elon Musk isn’t helping by calling the bill a “disgusting abomination,” in part because it’s projected to add trillions of dollars to the federal debt.

After their recent dust up, you’ll see plenty of Musk vs. Trump cartoons in the coming days. For now, here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. R.J. Matson

We have a great new Caglecast with 135 cartoons of Trump as an animal –with expert commentary from our top Trump-as-an-animal cartoonists, Adam Zyglis, Dave Whamond and Bill Day. Come watch!

#3. Gary McCoy

#4. Dave Granlund

#5. Monte Wolverton

#6. Dave Granlund

#7. Chris Weyant

#8. John Darkow

#9. Bruce Plante

#10. Harley Schwadron

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Tariff turmoil: Top ten cartoons of the week

Donald Trump’s certainly left his mark on the global economy, with his global tariffs continuing to wreak havoc on markets across the world. Here in the U.S., Wall Street has become something of a rollercoaster ride, jumping and falling on every Truth Social post from the president

The interest in everything tariffs was evident this week, as nearly all of our most-reprinted cartoons were about Trump’s tax hike on imported goods. Our most popular cartoon, drawn by Ed Wexler, focused on the poor penguins in Antarctica unexpectedly hit by Trump’s tariffs.

Dave Whamond also drew a pair of popular tariff cartoons – a funny one featuring a keyboard warrior turned tax expert, and another mocking our dwindling 401(k)s. If you haven’t logged into your retirement account lately, don’t start now. I’d wait for all of Trump’s “winning” to kick in.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Ed Wexler

#2. Dave Whamond

#3. Dave Whamond

#4. Dave Granlund

#5. Harley Schwadron

#6. John Darkow

#7. John Darkow

#8. Dave Granlund

#9. Dave Granlund

#10. Dick Wright

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DOGE CUTS: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

IRS agents. VA workers. Park rangers. Air traffic controllers. Social Security administrators. No one employed by the federal government appears safe with Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency waiving a chainsaw across Washington.

Our top two most-reprinted cartoons of the week come from Chris Weyant, and both mock Musk’s blunt and mistake-prone process of trimming the size of the federal workforce. I also enjoyed Jeff Koterba’s cartoon about astronauts returning home after being stuck on the International Space Station, only to find a “Planet of the Apes” scenario playing out in the U.S.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. Chris Weyant

Those two Lovebirds, Trump and Putin, take their bromance to new heights in 80 brilliant cartoons! Don’t miss the passion as these handsome dictators flirt and fling through the pens of our brilliant Cagle Cartoonists — on our 4K Caglecast! (Great cover image by Pat Bagley.)

#3. Jeff Koterba

#4. Dave Granlund

#5. John Darkow

#6. John Darkow

#7. John Darkow

#8. R.J. Matson

#9. Alexandra Bowman

#10. Bruce Plante

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Tariff Trouble: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs is causing a melt down on Wall Street, where stocks are plummeting at the economic chaos being caused by his administration.

Several of our most popular cartoons this week were on Trump’s on-and-off approach to tariffs, which is leaving everyone dazed and confused. Jeff Korterba drew a funny cartoon about an Easter bunny already reeling from high egg prices getting hit with tariffs from Trump.

Speaking of eggs, Chris Weyant’s cartoon about a pot of gold being less valuable than a carton of eggs was easily our most-reprinted cartoon of the week, and for good reason. Trump ran for president promising to bring costs down, but the average price of a dozen eggs in the U.S. is up to nearly $6.

I’d suggest pouring yourself a glass of wine, but apparently Trump is going to tariff that, too. The only think left to do is laugh at the absurdity by checking out our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. Jeff Koterba

Funny and disturbing editorial cartoons by the best cartoonists in the world, about Donald Trump screwing Ukraine over! Enjoy one hundred brilliant Ukraine betrayal cartoons!

#3. Dave Granlund

#4. Jeff Koterba

#5. Bruce Plante

#6. Ed Wexler

#7. Dave Granlund

#8. John Darkow

#9. John Darkow

#10. John Darkow

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Doomscrolling: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

Have you heard the phrase doomscrolling? That’s when folks mindlessly consume negative news on their phone without lifting a finger to do anything about it.

Looks like it’s happening a lot during the Trump administration. Dave Whamond’s call for somebody, anybody to stand up and fight – including Democrats in Washington – was easily our most-reprinted cartoon of the week.

A big item in the news are Trump’s on again, off again tariffs on goods coming in from Canada and Mexico. Right now, they’re paused until next month, which led to a funny cartoon by Bob Englehart featuring a kid and his lemonade stand.

For now, don’t stop scrolling. Instead, check out our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Dave Whamond

Funny and disturbing editorial cartoons by the best cartoonists in the world, about Donald Trump screwing Ukraine over! Enjoy one hundred brilliant Ukraine betrayal cartoons!

#2. Bob Englehart

#3. John Darkow

#4. John Darkow

#5. Dick Wright

#6. Dave Whamond

#7. Jeff Koterba

#8. Dave Granlund

#9. Pat Byrnes

#10. Doug Plante

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Welcome Whamond

I’m delighted to welcome a new cartoonist to Cagle.com and our syndication package. Dave Whamond is a brilliant gag cartoonist and children’s book illustrator; he draws the syndicated panel Reality Check and has won a boatload of NCS “Silver Reuben” Awards.

Welcome aboard, Dave! Go kick some cartoon butt!

 

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Trump Dances with China

I realize this cartoon is a bit ambiguous. Perhaps Trump is wrestling with China. Maybe Trump is “facing off” with China. Maybe there is something sexy going on with China that we can’t quite see. It is hard to tell. I went with “dance.” The USA will soon be adding another $250,000,000,000+ of tariffs to Chinese imports, which will move China to retaliate in other ways.

I draw lots of Trump-critical cartoons, but this one isn’t one of them. I think Trump’s approach to China is long overdue. I even posted this one as a “Trump Friendly” cartoon on our CagleCartoons.com newspaper syndication site – although, that is probably ambiguous too.

I’ve drawn Trump and a Chinese dragon before.

Dragons don’t have to represent China, although the chinese style dragons are more fun to draw. Here’s the dragon cartoon I drew the day after the election, when Trump defeated Hillary.

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The G7 Piggy Bank

I drew a pro-Trump cartoon again – I know how my readers hate that! Trump is getting hammered in the press today for testy comments following a testy G7 summit in Canada, with Trump saying, “We’re like the piggy bank that everyone is robbing.”

I think “suckling” is a better fit than “robbing”. Trump ran his campaign on toughening up trade relationships, which is something I like. Trump also complained about our allies not paying enough for  their defense, and depending on the US military subsidizing them. I also liked that Trump promised to get us out of foreign wars. I’d like to see Trump do more to keep these promises, especially the one about keeping out of wars. Trump seems to want to meddle around the globe poking every bee hive, at least as much every other president –better that he meddles with tariffs than wars.

My readers, who strongly object when I draw something that veers out of my liberal slot, will have plenty to complain about with this cartoon.