Political cartoons for February 19

Thursday’s political cartoons include a suspicious package, a piece of the cake, and more

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This cartoon depicts a wooden Trojan horse labeled “AI” outside the large gates of a walled city. Two soldiers atop the wall look at the horse and one says, “A gift from the Greeks.”

(Image credit: Bill Bramhall / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

This editorial cartoon is titled “Epstein’s Elite Enablers.” It depicts Jeffrey Epstein cutting a crude cake that is formed into the shape of a topless woman, with cherries for nipples. He is surrounded by men in suits that are labeled “Bankers, Tech execs, Academic elites, Government officials, Elite lawyers, financiers, and business leaders.” Epstein says, “Thanks for the cake, guys, Who wants a piece?”

(Image credit: David Horsey / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

A man in a chef’s hat and filthy apron labeled “Big Tech” holds a ladle and scoops awful-looking food scraps from a garbage can labeled “AI Slop.” He says, “But the portions are huge!”

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

This is a two-panel cartoon. At left, a hand labeled “Jesse Jackson” reaches out toward another hand labeled “Poor” as a voice says, “I am somebody!” On the right panel, Donald Trump holds a darkly-colored “redacted” rectangle as he ignores the hand and thinks, “You’re Nobody!”

(Image credit: Joel Pett / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

This cartoon is set in space, looking back at Earth. The title at upper left is, “Here’s Jeffrey Epstein’s Island:”

(Image credit: Patrick Chappatte / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

Donald Trump is at Mount Rushmore looking at his newly-added face. He looks at plans and says to a construction worker, “Make me thinner and lose the other guys.”

(Image credit: Bruce Plante / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This is a four-panel cartoon with three smaller panels across the top and one larger one at bottom. The panels across the top depict a teenage girl looking at her phone and speaking with someone who is not pictured. The dialogue goes like this: “Time to get off your phone. Yeah-yeah, hold on.. NOW! Let me just finish this! Geez! I’m serious! Just five more minutes, OK!” The bottom panel reveals the girl is on the stand at a trial named “social media addiction trial.” The girl says, “Please! One more and I promise I’m done!” A lawyer says, “I rest my case!” Mark Zuckerberg sits at the witness stand looking glum.

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

Donald Trump and five advisors sit around a table, all covered in measles.One man says, “Maybe listen more to the World Health Organization, and less to the guy who used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.”

(Image credit: Clay Jones / Copyright 2025 Claytoonz)

This cartoon is titled ICE Dancing. Uncle Sam loses his hat and looks scared as he skates with a masked ICE Officer that resembles a skeleton. Their tracks in the ice spell out “Fascism.”

(Image credit: Adam Zyglis / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

A woman sits in a chair in a US Government Hiring Office. A man behind the desk is interviewing her for a job as a secretary for the Epstein Files. The man says, “How many words can you black out per minute?”

(Image credit: Harley Schwadron / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

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