October 6 editorial cartoons | The Week

published 6 October 2025

This cartoon takes place in a living room where a man is reclined in a chair sound asleep in front of the television. Two women look at him and one says, &ldquo;With all the terrible stuff in the news, Herb &lsquo;shut down&rsquo; a long time ago!&rdquo;

This political cartoon is drawn in a sad, lonesome way and depicts the Statue of Liberty sleeping on a New York park bench like a homeless person. She is covered by newspapers and has dropped her torch on the ground.

This editorial cartoon is dominated by the image of a large electronic machine labeled &ldquo;A.I. Data Canter&rdquo; It&rsquo;s being powered by a squeaky hamster wheel labeled &ldquo;The Grid.&rdquo; A tired hamster spins the wheel.

This political cartoon is titled &ldquo;RED LINES&rdquo; and is dominated by many, many small signs in the ground related to bad things Donald Trump has done, including &ldquo;Lying&rdquo; &ldquo;Grab &lsquo;em by the pussy&rdquo; &ldquo;Fraud&rdquo; &ldquo;Corruption&rdquo; &ldquo;Hiring RFK Jr.&rdquo; &lsquo;Putin Love Fest,&rdquo; &ldquo;ICE Raids,&rdquo; &ldquo;Pardoning domestic terrorists,&rdquo; &ldquo;Inciting J-6,&rdquo; and many, many more. Trump walks through the signs trailing a red line of paint. There are two donkeys with an empty can of red paint and one says, &ldquo;We need more paint.&rdquo;

This editorial cartoon shows a tourist boat on the Hudson River in New York floating past the base where the Statue of Liberty used to be. A tour guide on the boat says, &ldquo;Before deportation she was a beloved member of the community for 139 years&hellip;&rdquo;

This two panel cartoon depicts the Pentagon on the left and the U.S. Capitol building on the right. Both fly &ldquo;T&rdquo; flags outside. The Pentagon is labeled &ldquo;U.S. Dept of War&rdquo; and the Capital is labeled &ldquo;U.S. Department of Surrender: Zzzzzz&rdquo;

In this cartoon, a man in a tuxedo and sunglasses smiles as he holds an Academy Award and is accompanied by a beautiful woman in an elegant dress and jewelry. Two other women in fancy dresses watch and one says, &ldquo;He won the best actress Oscar for writing the AI prompts to create Tilly Norwood.&rdquo;

This editorial cartoon depicts Donald Trump with a gas can next to a raging fire with many different words, including &ldquo;allies&rdquo; &ldquo;norms&rdquo; &ldquo;epstein files&rdquo; &ldquo;insult top military brass&rdquo; &ldquo;science&rdquo; &ldquo;checks and balances&rdquo; and &ldquo;indict political enemies.&rdquo; Trump says, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re the hottest country right now&hellip;&rdquo;

This is a dystopian editorial cartoon titled &ldquo;Future Nostalgia.&rdquo; It takes place in a bar where everyone wears a helmet that is connected to a drink or a drink and a cigarette. Outside the bar, there&rsquo;s a mushroom cloud, a dumpster fire, and a stray dog eating a man who has fallen down. One man in the bar says, &ldquo;Cmon! Deranged leaders, kleptocratic oligarchy, environmental collapse, faux Christianity, scam culture, and deepfake disinfo! Good old days&rdquo; Another man looks askew at the talker and reports him by speaking into his watch to the authorities, &ldquo;Homeland? C-level &lsquo;enemy within&rsquo; brave sector&hellip;&rdquo;

This cartoon depicts two donkeys whispering to each other as Mike Johnson sweats and talks. One elephant whispers, &ldquo;If the shutdown is the Democrats&rsquo; fault.. Then why are we lying?&rdquo; They are listening to Johnson, who says, &ldquo;Democrats want to fund healthcare for &lsquo;illegals,&rsquo; food stamps for drag queens, EV batteries for Venezuelan drug boats, sunshine and lollipops for antifa, and free unicorns for trans generals playing on women&rsquo;s swim teams trying to release the Epstein files&hellip;&rdquo;

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