Political cartoons for October 23 | The Week

published 23 October 2025

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This cartoon takes place near the ocean where a pirate ship labeled &ldquo;Crypto Sector&rdquo; floats near the shore. The shore is dangerous and rocky, covered with bones and a crow or a siren calling out &ldquo;More Deregulation!&rdquo; A voice on the boat says, &ldquo;Sounds good to me!&rdquo;

This political cartoon takes place in a graveyard where three ghosts float. Two ghosts on the left look the same while the ghost on the right has a pointed head that looks sort of like a klansman. One ghost on the left says to the other, &ldquo;Watch out. I think he&rsquo;s with ICE.&rdquo;

This cartoon shows a group of poor people huddled together at a soup kitchen. Donald Trump drives by in his armored limousine and says, &ldquo;Great news: I&rsquo;m demanding the taxpayers pay me $230 million.&rdquo;

This cartoon is titled &ldquo;New Sentence Discovered.&rdquo; It depicts a man in a front costume holding a sign that says &ldquo;No Kings!&rdquo; He says, &ldquo;I dressed up in this inflatable frog costume to protest fascism so the president posted an AI video of himself dropping poop from a fighter jet.&rdquo;

This is a two-panel political cartoon titled &ldquo;Saving Social Security.&rdquo; A crazy-looking RFK Jr. is on the left side eating a rare, juicy steak next to a dripping pile of saturated fat. Above him are the words, &ldquo;Step 1: HHS recommends more saturated fat and red meat.&rdquo; The right panel depicts a stack of coffins under the words, &ldquo;Step 2: Almost everyone dies before age 65. Social Security is saved!&rdquo;

This cartoon takes place at the butcher where the man behind the counter says to a female customer, &ldquo;May I help you?&rdquo; The customer has a newspaper in her cart that reads &ldquo;Beef Prices Soar&rdquo; and looks worried as she scans the large &ldquo;Cuts of Beef&rdquo; poster behind the butcher. Instead of a cow, the poster shows a $100 dollar bill named &ldquo;Family Budgets&rdquo; and it is cut into many different pieces.

This cartoon takes place outside the Louvre&rsquo;s glass pyramid. A police car is parked nearby and a sign announces the exhibits are closed because of a robbery. A man and a woman walk by and the man says, &ldquo;I see the Biden border security team got jobs at the Louvre&hellip;&rdquo;

This is a four-panel editorial cartoon focused on climate change. It&rsquo;s drawn to resemble the Mousetrap game, which is a series of Rube Goldberg style gizmos. The first panel shows the beginning of the game where a person sends the ball on its way. In this version, the ball is Earth. Earth makes its way through different obstacles until it lands in a boiling cauldron of water.

This cartoon takes place on the sidewalk, where a man in a suit carrying a briefcase looks at a doomsayer in a robe and sandals carrying a sign. The sign reads, &ldquo;The end is near. Only the rich and powerful will survive.&rdquo;

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