August 21 editorial cartoons

Thursday's political cartoons include AI-driven water shortages, Sharpie-corrected slavery, and airstrikes on Washington, D.C.

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This cartoon is titled “Public Water Supplies”. It shows a fishbowl where a fish named “Local residents and business” can’t swim because it has been crowded out by an oversized fish named “A.I. Data Centers” that has greedily taken up all the water.

(Image credit: John Cole / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This Donald Trump cartoon depicts Trump making changes to exhibits at the Smithsonian with his black pen. A slave auction becomes “Free Market Capitalism.” A slave with a brutally whip-scarred back is now “Love Taps.” A whip is called “Workplace morale booster”. A ball and chains is called “employee retention device” and a slave ship is labelled “Luxury cruise ship.” Trump says, “Better!”

(Image credit: Nick Anderson / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

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