Political cartoons for March 4

Wednesday’s political cartoons include a war template, a stress test, and more

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This cartoon is titled “Rolling in Dough.” It depicts Donald Trump with a cookie cutter shaped like Venezuela and labeled with that country’s name. Trump uses the cookie cutter to try and cut cookies out of the Middle East, which in this cartoon is a rolled-out sheet of cookie dough. Barrels of oil labeled “Iran” are nearby.

(Image credit: Graeme MacKay / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

A man sits in his doctor’s office, wearing underwear and a T-shirt. The doctor turns on a television and says, “For your stress test, I’m tuning in to the world news…”

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

This cartoon is titled “We just went to war! Why? It’s time to play America’s favorite game show: What’s the Reason Anyway?” Pete Hegseth stands next to a large game-show style spinning wheel and says “Let’s spin it!” The wheel has reasons for the war, including “Oil, baby!” “Weapons of mass distraction” “We didn’t start the war we started” “I accidentally copied Iran on my signal chat” “Imminent threat” “Create a power vacuum” “Israel was going to attack Iran” “Epstein Distraction" “Regime change” “We wanted Iran to bomb our bases now rather than later” “Daddy needs new ballroom drapes” and “We got Iran mixed up with Iraq again…”

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

This cartoon depicts a man and woman in bed at night, about to go to sleep. The man says, “Don’t forget…we lose an hour of sleep this weekend.” The woman, who has a tablet next to the bed showing the news, says, “That would assume we’re getting any sleep in the first place.”

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

This cartoon depicts a caricature of Donald Trump at a podium with a headline of “Breaking News: U.S. attacks Iran.” Trump says, “The bombings will continue until I get my Nobel Peace Prize.”

(Image credit: Phil Hands / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

This cartoon depicts a young boy sitting between two adults. The young boy has a cell phone and says, “My name is Joey and I’m a social mediaholic.”

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

This cartoon depicts Donald Trump behind a podium labeled “General Bonespur.” Trump has a “USA” hat on and shouts, “OFF TO WAR!” Two men behind him say, “Suppose the Dems subpoena Melania?” and “PPP Pedo Protection Program!”

(Image credit: Randall Enos / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This cartoon depicts Hillary Clinton appearing before a panel of elephants in suits. Clinton says, “I never met Jeffrey Epstein.” One of the elephants points to her and says, “Not even when you and the baby-eating lizard people murdered him in his jail cell?”

(Image credit: Clay Jones / Copyright 2025 Claytoonz)

This wordless editorial cartoon depicts a dove of peace in the sky that has been transformed into a bomber plane. It carries eight large bombs and is in the midst of dropping one to the ground.

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

This is a two-panel cartoon with Donald Trump on both sides. On the left, Trump says, “You Iranians should seize control of your destiny…” The right side depicts Trump in silhouette sneaking away from a ballot box labeled “midterms.” He says, “And this war may be my chance to seize America’s.”

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

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