Political cartoons for October 27 | The Week

published 27 October 2025

This political cartoon depicts the the Statue of Liberty as a giant golden woman with comically oversized, rounded breasts. A woman turns to a man looking at the statue and says, &ldquo;I hope he&rsquo;s done &lsquo;improving&rsquo; our national monuments.&rdquo;

This cartoon is titled &ldquo;Full-Court Press&rdquo; and depicts a giant gavel labeled &ldquo;Gambling Scandal&rdquo; coming down hard on a basketball court and an NBA player, who then drops the basketball.

This political cartoon takes place on Halloween on the front step of a house. The trick-or-treater is a giant adult vampire labeled &ldquo;Data Centers.&rdquo; The homeowners are a man and a woman. The man says, &ldquo;He says he&rsquo;s going to suck up all our electricity and make our rates go through the roof!&rdquo; The woman, who wears an apron labeled &ldquo;Rate Payers&rdquo; responds, Now that&rsquo;s scary!&rdquo;

This cartoon shows a man and a woman walking past a construction fence that blocks the White House. Wrecking balls are visible. A sign on the fence reads, &ldquo;New East Wing courtesy of: Amazon, Google, Comcast, Apple, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Union Pacific.&rdquo; The woman says, &ldquo;The People&rsquo;s House.&rdquo;

This cartoon is titled &ldquo;playing chicken.&rdquo; It depicts a car with a license plate labeled &ldquo;DEMS&rdquo; about to crash into a cliff labeled &ldquo;Government shutdown.&rdquo; The driver says, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t worry, they&rsquo;ll blink first.&rdquo; The passenger says, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s a wall.&rdquo;

This editorial cartoon depicts two young trick-or-treaters dressed as a witch and a goblin. They look into their empty candy bags and the witch says, &ldquo;One M&amp;M?!? So, this is what a bad economy looks like.&rdquo;

A political cartoon depicts a donkey figure standing next to a defaced statue. The statue's legs are broken off at the ankles, and the pedestal is covered in graffiti with words like &quot;FREE PALESTINE,&quot; &quot;FASCIST,&quot; &quot;RACIST,&quot; &quot;BLM,&quot; and &quot;WHITE SUPREMACIST.&quot; The donkey holds a spray paint can and is pointing toward the right while saying, &quot;Trump's ballroom construction is proof of his total disregard for history.&quot;

A man and a woman are relaxing on a couch in a living room. The man eats Halloween candy and says, &quot;It's Halloween! Should we watch a horror movie or something?&quot; The woman, reclining with her feet up and a wine glass in her hand, replies, &quot;Or we could just watch the news.&quot;

A political cartoon titled &quot;BASKETBALL TIPOFF&quot; depicts four men dressed like stereotypical gangsters in the crowd at an NBA game. One of the men wears a fedora and whispers to another, &quot;He's taking a dive in the next quarter.&quot;

This cartoon is drawn like a horror movie poster and is titled &ldquo;Reaganstein.&rdquo; A Frankenstein&rsquo;s monster that resembles a zombie Ronald Reagan has escaped from its chains. Donald Trump is on the floor, his head opened and his brain missing. Reagan says, &ldquo;I am tariff man&rdquo; while a group of three mad scientists in lab coats say, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s alive! What kind of monster have we created?&rdquo;

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