5 tinfoil-covered cartoons about Tylenol and autism

Artists take on the toys in RFK Jr's attic, the war on autism, and more

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This cartoon depicts Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a kook sitting at a desk on which rest weird implements. The include a voodoo doll, a dagger, a Magic 8-Ball, tarot cards, oddball electric gages and burning candles and wine cups. He wears a tinfoil hat with a propeller attached and holds two puppets. One puppet is a nun wearing boxing gloves and the other is a snake made out of a sock. Kennedy says, ‘Why yes, I’d be happy to explain the science behind how acetaminophen causes autism.”

(Image credit: Pat Byrnes / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This cartoon takes place in a laboratory where an orange caricature of Donald Trump holds up a bottle of Tylenol. Trump is next to RFK Jr. who is drawn to resemble the Beaker character from the Muppets. Trump says, “It was Tylenol all along. I have ended the war on autism.” RFK Jr. responds, “MEEP.”

(Image credit: Jonathan Brown / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

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