Political cartoons for March 18

Wednesday’s political cartoons include Pete Hegseth in an unflattering cartoon, World War III, and more

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This cartoon depicts a shirtless and tattooed Pete Hegseth holding a press conference at a funeral for a soldier. The coffin is colored like an American flag and advertises a “USA” hat on top for $19.95. The screen behind Hegseth reads, “Play our videogame: Call of Duty: Tehran.” The flowers next to the casket read “$1 billion per day” and “RIP War Powers Act.” A poster behind him has a picture of Donald Trump holding a skull that reads “Killing Foreign Leaders” and “Sorry about the Girls School.” A photographer takes a photo of Hegseth, who shouts, “Don’t take unflattering photos of me!!!”

(Image credit: Jack Ohman / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

An adult caveman is in a cave telling a scary story to a young boy, who also is dressed like a primitive human and looks frightened. It’s nighttime and a fire is burning. The adult says, “...And then, the host of Celebrity Apprentice started World War 3!”

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

This cartoon is titled “Talking Head” and depicts Marco Rubio in a comically oversized suit and shoes, an homage to David Byrne and the Talking Heads. Rubio says, “And you may ask yourself. How did I get here?”

(Image credit: Nick Anderson / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

This is a two-panel cartoon titled “Meanwhile, in a completely opposite universe”. On the left side, a man watches television where a female newscaster says, “Congress has approved another 11 billion dollars for education.” On the right side, a woman answers her door where a high-ranking military man asks her, “We’re doing a bottle drive to raise money for the military! Do you have any empties?”

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

This is a wordless four panel cartoon depicting Donald Trump blowing out air in each panel. He blows solar panels off the roof of a house, then breaks a wind turbine, then blows out the torch on the Statue of Liberty before he finally blows an already-burning Earth to stoke the fire.

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

A man dressed like an Iraqi soldier reads the news as a man and a woman peek around a corner to watch. The man says, “The FCC chair didn’t like our war coverage…So we replaced our anchor with Baghdad Bob.” The anchor reads the news and says, “The Strait of Hormuz is now the Strait of Trump, where he downed thousands of Iranian infields like dogs while winning 17 golf tournaments in one day…”

(Image credit: Clay Jones / Copyright 2025 Claytoonz)

A woman and a man are outside in a scorched, baked landscape with the sun burning bright overhead. A snake and a rabbit are sweating and smoking. The sun is labeled “Heat wave in the west.” The woman says, “This gives a whole new meaning to ‘March Madness’!”

(Image credit: Paul Duginski / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This cartoon is titled “Trying to adjust his tone with U.S. allies.” It depicts Donald Trump holding a piece of paper titled “Iran War” as Trump says, “S.O.B.” He then holds up a letter “S” to change what he says into “S.O.S”

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

A man in a suit walks down the sidewalk and speaks with two aliens who have just stepped out of their space ship. One of the aliens says, “We mean you no harm. We’re just here to observe how you primitive people are about to destroy yourselves with nuclear weapons.”

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

This cartoon depicts Donald Trump as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, portrayed by Robert Duvall in “Apocalypse Now”. Trump is shirtless and wears a hat with the US Cavalry’s crossword swords. Three other heavily-armed soldiers are nearby. War rages around the scene, including ships burning. Trump says, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning..smells like victory.” A soldier says, “Those are oil tankers.”

(Image credit: Michael Ramirez / Copyright 2025 Creators Syndicate)

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