The Epstein files | July 16 editorial cartoons | The Week

published 16 July 2025

This political cartoon depicts a man and woman in summer clothes outside a bookstore. They are looking at their phones. The bookstore has a sign in the window that reads &ldquo;Top Summer Reading Wish List.&rdquo; The sign below that sign has a bunch of topics that spell out &ldquo;EPSTEIN&rdquo; with their first letter. The topics are Entertainment, Paranormal, Sci-Fi, True Crime, Events in History, Interesting Memories and Nonfiction.

This cartoon takes place in a hospital room. A man is in bed speaking to a woman. The man says, &ldquo;Six months? I was in a coma for six months?? You mean I missed Trump ending the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, bringing down inflation, and releasing the Epstein files?&rdquo;

This cartoon depicts a massive ocean tidal wave labeled &ldquo;FEDERAL CUTS&rdquo; A woman is on a small float about to be hit by the wave. She wears a shirt that reads &ldquo;States&rdquo; and her small float is labeled &ldquo;Budget Cuts.&rdquo; She says, &ldquo;All I can do now is hold my breath.&rdquo;

This cartoon is titled &ldquo;Latest Explanation.&rdquo; A dog is in a corner eating a stack of paper labeled &ldquo;Epstein.&rdquo;

This editorial cartoon takes place in a kitchen where a masked ICE agent is eating a bowl of Count Chocula cereal. His wife says to him, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t eat with your mask on, honey!&rdquo;

This cartoon depicts a man and a woman seated in front of a television watching the news. It&rsquo;s titled &ldquo;Darn near the last words of free speech ever uttered by Mr. and Mrs. Complacency.&rdquo; The man says, &ldquo;Oh, none of this will have any effect on us whatsoever&rdquo; as there is then a knock on the door.

This cartoon takes place outside where a man and a woman are looking at a large weather vane labelled &ldquo;On, Off, On, Off&rdquo; on top of the White House. The woman says, &ldquo;It has nothing to do with the weather! It&rsquo;s about tariffs!&rdquo;

This is a four-panel cartoon featuring a woman interviewing a man in a red MAGA hat. The woman says, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re at day 177 of Donald Trump&rsquo;s second term as president. Your thoughts?&rdquo; The man responds, &ldquo;The president needs to keep fighting and drain the swamp.&rdquo; He continues, &ldquo;The cabal of deep state elites want to stop the truth from getting out.&rdquo; The woman says, &ldquo;Isn&rsquo;t President Trump himself the Deep-State at this point?&rdquo; The man responds, &ldquo;Nobody said it would be easy.&rdquo;

This cartoon takes place on a road in the middle of a war-torn landscape. A shirtless Vladimir Putin holds a leash attached to Donald Trump, who is walking on all fours. Trump says, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m starting to think you&rsquo;re stringing me along.&rdquo;

Donald Trump stands at left in this cartoon, speaking to Vladimir Putin, who sits in a chair smoking a cigarette and wears a leather jacket. Putin is reading a paper titled &ldquo;Ukraine.&rdquo; Trump points at him and says, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m disappointed in you, young man!&rdquo; Putin responds, &ldquo;Yeah, yeah, whatever.&rdquo;

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