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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has a new surprise for Vladimir Putin | June 4 editorial cartoons

Wednesday's political cartoons include a figurative black eye for Vladimir Putin, Democrats in search of young male voters, Elon Musk's hallucinations, and a bedtime story from Sen. Joni Ernst

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By The Week US

published 4 June 2025

This cartoon shows a sad-looking Vladimir Putin with a blackened eye. He says, “What, like you’ve never seen a billionaire associate of Trump with a black eye before?”

This political cartoon is set outside on a sidewalk. A man lies unconscious with a dart in his neck. Two donkeys dressed in white lab coats attend to him; one holds the gun that fired the dart. The cartoon is titled: “Dem anthropologists tag the ear of a male voter taken down by a sedative dart in a $20 million study of masculinity.”

This political cartoon is titled “Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.” The foreground is dominated by images of people screaming in comic terror as they are being chased by a giant Schoolhouse-rock style bill in the background. The bill wears a button that reads, “I’m just a bill.”

This editorial cartoon is set outside with a city looming in the background. Two masked male protestors are in the foreground. One holds a molotov cocktail and the other a tire iron. One says, “Our protestors have overtaken a city in France!” The other responds, “Nice!” The first responds, “No, Paris.”

This editorial cartoon is a play on the “This is Fine” meme, which features a dog smiling as the room burns around it. In this cartoon, the dog is labeled “FEMA” and wears a “MAGA” hat. The dog sits on the edge of a swirling hurricane that is labeled “Hurricane Season” while a smoky, flaming mass labeled “Fire season” burns behind. The dog says, “This is fine.”

This editorial cartoon is titled “White Collar Jobs.” It’s dominated by a guillotine drawn so that it forms the letters “A.I.”

This cartoon features a satisfied-looking Volodymyr Zelenskyy sitting across the negotiating table from a frightened Vladimir Putin. A drone has flown into the room and dropped a bag on the table between the two men. Zelenskyy says, “We’ve arranged to have lunch delivered by drone.”

This is a political cartoon set in a child’s room at bedtime. A mother is reading a story to a frightened child. The story she reads comes from a book written by Senator Joni Ernst called “WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!” The back cover of the book shows Ernst with a “I’m pro-life” button. The mother says, “The end! Good to know that the people in charge care about you. Sleep tight!”

This cartoon is set high in blue skies. A character that looks like Superman is falling as he holds a woman. The woman says, “You can’t fly?! I thought you were the man of steel!” The Superman character replies, “I’m the man of steel tariffs.”

This cartoon is drawn in a hallucinogenic style, similar to Ralph Steadman’s artwork. A wild-eyed Elon Musk lies on a couch with a bottle of ketamine on his chest. He’s hallucinating a range of chaotic images, including bats, swastikas, and swirling patterns, with words like "White genocide!" and "MAGA" and “Stephen Miller’s wife” scattered around. A man and woman observe the scene from the upper right corner. The man says, "I was right. Musk WAS high.”

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