Political cartoons for April 30

Thursday’s political cartoons include a shell game, a relaxing hobby, and more

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A sunburned Donald Trump is on a beach. He looks at a little boy who has written a message with shells in the sand that reads “47 is a #2” and and yells “ARREST HIM!”

(Image credit: Rick McKee / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

The top left of this image shows a woman in gardening attire speaking to a man. She says, “This spring I started gardening to help take my mind off these stressful times.” The rest of the image shows a giant, beautifully manicured garden featuring signs, flowerbeds, and carefully designed plantings. The man says, ‘That’s a lot of stress!”

(Image credit: Joe Heller / Copyright 2025 Hellertoon.com)

Donald Trump stands behind a podium with a seal that says “President of Reality TV”. A wide-eyed Kash Patel and Mark Wayne Mullin are next to Trump. Trump says, "This proves that we need the big, beautiful, bulletproof ballroom, that big, strong military officers with tears in their eyes have begged me to build. And they also said, 'Sir, this proves what you've said all along about the Strait of Hormuz, Ukraine, open borders, tariffs, Russia, Russia, Russia, the rigged elections, windmills, covfefe, person, woman, man,’”

(Image credit: John Deering / Copyright 2025 Creators Syndicate)

This single-panel cartoon shows a man holding a TV remote and sitting on a couch next to a woman. He asks her, "Do you want to watch the real news, the fake news, or the news we don't know is real or fake?"

(Image credit: Christopher Weyant / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

A man in a robe walks down sidewalk street carrying a sign that reads, “The end is near.” An AI robot walks behind him with a sign that says, “Nearer than you think!” Two women look on and one says, “Those are not good signs!”

(Image credit: Dave Whamond / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This cartoon depicts Melania Trump with her back to the reader. She’s looking at something that has made her very angry. Her jacket says, “I really don’t care…unless you make fun of me!”

(Image credit: Pedro Molina / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

A donkey in a suit is working on a Virginia redistricting map as an elephant in a suit watches angrily. The elephant says, “It’s cheating when you do it!”

(Image credit: Drew Sheneman / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

This cartoon depicts Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel. A voice yells out “SHOTS!” and both Hegseth and Patel think to themselves, “Whiskey or tequila?”

(Image credit: Bill Day / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This six-panel cartoon is an homage to “The Treachery of Images” by René Magritte, which has a picture of a pipe and the words “This is not a pipe” in French. This version begins with a pipe and goes through a series of images, including “this is not a problem” in a polluted area, “this is not necessary” in a beautiful wilderness, “this is not dangerous” with the images of two robots, and “this is not a war” as plans drop bombs that kill people. The final panel shows Donald Trump and is titled, “This is not a liar”.

(Image credit: Peter Kuper / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This panel depicts Donald Trump in court speaking to a judge. Trump holds blueprints for “A Beautiful Ballroom” with arrows pointing to “Bunker” and “TV” and “toilet”. Trump says, “The ballroom is vital for national security, as it has an underground bunker to protect the president from late-night comedians…”

(Image credit: Clay Jones / Copyright 2025 Claytoonz)

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