Political cartoons for December 4 | The Week

Donald Trump naps at his desk in the Oval Office as three aids stand close by. Trump has a can of Diet Coke and McDonald&rsquo;s french fries within arm&rsquo;s reach. One aid says, &ldquo;When he falls asleep like this you can issue any executive order you want. Last week I made Guam a state.&rdquo;

A man looks at his cell phone on the left side of this cartoon. It reads, &ldquo;Oxford&rsquo;s word of the year is Rage Bait.&rdquo; On the left side, the man is furious and yells as he taps on his phone, &ldquo;You idiots! That&rsquo;s TWO words!&rdquo;

A female and two male scientists are in a sophisticated-looking laboratory. It&rsquo;s filled with beakers, machines, computers, and other scientific gadgets. One of the male scientists looks into a microscope and says, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the most dangerous pathogen we have come across.&rdquo; The woman says, &ldquo;Bubonic? Plague? Smallpox?&rdquo; The third man responds, &ldquo;Misinformation and conspiracy theories.&rdquo;

This is a two-panel cartoon titled The Agony and the Ecstasy. At left, an immigrant is shown from the back as handcuffs clink closed on his wrists. The right side is labeled the &ldquo;Private, For-Profit Prison Industry,&rdquo; Two champagne glasses clink together.

Two men in a boat on the left side of this cartoon are labeled &ldquo;Suspected Drug Traffickers.&rdquo; They look up warily at a missile labeled &ldquo;KILL THEM ALL&rdquo; headed directly at them. The right side of the image is labeled &ldquo;Known Drug Trafficker&rdquo; and features a smiling Juan Orlando Hernandez in a boat. He smiles as a basket labeled &ldquo;Pardon&rdquo; and filled with fruit is gently floating down to him.

This cartoon depicts a dead bird in a cage. It's on its back with its tongue out and eyes closed. The title is &ldquo;Canary in a Bitcoin Mine.&rdquo;

Pete Hegseth pins a medal that reads &ldquo;BLAME&rdquo; on the lapel Adm. Frank &ldquo;Mitch&rdquo; Bradley. Hegseth says, &ldquo;Admiral Bradley, for flawlessly executing your mission during a little thing I call The Fog of War.&rdquo; Bradley thinks to himself, &ldquo;You mean, the Haze of Hegseth.&rdquo;

In this wordless four panel cartoon, a man walks a dog. In each panel the dog becomes more and more like a robot and the background of the image is replaced by binary zeros and ones. In the final panel, the dog has become fully mechanized. It turns on the man and attacks him, viciously biting so that its jaws cover the man&rsquo;s entire head and leaves him bloodied and dead.

Pete Hegseth floats in the ocean on his desk as the USS Hegseth boat sinks nearby. Smoke rises from his burning desk and contains the words &ldquo;US Reputation.&rdquo; Hegseth says, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t blame me!&rdquo;

A boy sits on Santa&rsquo;s lap. His sister is nearby and so is a Christmas tree. The boy says to Santa, &ldquo;Not so much imported stuff this year &ndash; to help our trade balance.&rdquo;

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