July 2 editorial cartoons | The Week

published 2 July 2025

This political cartoon shows the U.S. Capitol building. Inside, an elected official says, “If I vote for the bill, 17 million people will lose their medical care, but if I vote against it, Trump might post something mean about me!”

This political cartoon depicts a man walking in Florida. He wears a shirt that reads, “GO Gators. The school not the prison guards.”

This cartoon takes place in a doctor’s office. A male physician is testing the knee of a male patient, who sits on the doctor’s examining table in his boxer shorts. The doctor says, “It’s part of the congressional swing to the right. I see lots of liberals whose knees won’t jerk.”

This cartoon shows a tranquil image of a family camping near a lake. There is a mother, a father, a teenage girl, and a younger boy. They sit around a campfire and a camper van is nearby. The mother says, “Let’s never go back.”

This cartoon is set outside near a barbed-wire fence with a sign that reads “Alligator Alcatraz: Migrant Detention Center.” Two alligators look worried as they stare through the fence at the Statue of Liberty. One alligator says to the other, “ICE did warn that there would be big, green dangerous things on the other side of the fence.”

This cartoon is titled “PIG BEAUTIFUL BILL”. The main image is the word “SPENDING” that has been drawn to resemble a pig.

This cartoon depicts a painter labeled “EUROPE” standing on a ladder while he paints a fresh version of the NATO symbol.

This cartoon is set high above a football stadium that flies an American flag. A set of goalposts has been moved way into the distance. Someone in the stadium says, “Funny…I used be a moderate, but now I guess I’m a dangerous radical socialist who hates America!”

This is a three-panel cartoon showing Jeff Bezos. In the first panel he says, “I’m being criticized for spending $46 million on my wedding in Venice.” In the middle panel he continues, “Implying that I should have used the money to eradicate some dread disease or feed starving people in Africa. Well, I’ve done my part for mankind!” In the final panel, a woman in a spacesuit floats upside down and Bezos says, “I launched Katy Perry into space!”

This cartoon shows an overweight politician in a suit labeled “GOP” handing a bill labeled “Debt” to a baby in a stroller. The politician says, “Here you go kid. It’s a big beautiful bill.”

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