Elon Musk vs. Donald Trump | June 9 editorial cartoons | The Week

published 9 June 2025

This political cartoon is titled “ICED”. It shows a man trapped and frozen in a large block of ice. The man carries a sign that reads “Stop Deportations” and wears a T-shirt reading “Free Speech”. He wears an LA Dodgers hat.

This cartoon is titled “FOCUS GROUP” and shows three donkeys gathered around a desk looking at a screen. The screen shows the words “Our Message” but they are blurry and out of focus.

(Image credit: R.J. Matson / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This cartoon is set in a science lab with a researcher speaking into a microphone. He looks at two scientists working together with test tubes and says, “We had our funding cut by DOGE but not before our studies determined that 4 out of 5 people” and then abruptly stops before the finding can be revealed.

This editorial cartoon depicts a man labeled “America’s wartime Afghan allies” being tricked into being punched by a red, white, and blue boxing glove attached to a spring. The man has just opened a gift-wrapped box that says “Thank you!” Newspapers next to the box have headlines that read “Travel Ban” and “Loss of Temp. Protected Status.”

This cartoon shows a giant merchant ship named “HISTORY” that sits atop the globe. The ship sails away from the United States and someone aboard the ship says, “Hard to starboard!”

Uncle Sam is depicted with an angry expression on and black eyes labeled Trump and Musk. He thinks to himself, “This is what I get for horsing around with two bratty little todders.”

This cartoon is titled "DISTRACTED DRIVING". It is drawn like a line graph with a jagged red line representing economic fluctuations. Various speech bubbles are placed along the line. From left to right, they read: "It's liberation day!", "Trump hits pause button...", "Trump announces more tariffs...", "On second thought...", "Hold the phone", "Trump doubles tariffs...", "Trump adds more countries...", "It's 'taco' time...", and "Tariff-palooza!" At the far right, a man in a suit, labeled "WALL ST.," is driving a car looking distraught and holding a phone. A speech bubble from the phone says, "Court rules tariffs unconstitutional..."

This is a four-panel cartoon drawn in an artistic style with no words. It features a fit-looking woman in athletic wear and earbuds. In the first panel, she drinks from a plastic water bottle. In the second panel, she looks surprised and begins to fade away as she becomes covered with water. In the third panel, she is completely covered in sprayed water, looking up at more falling empty water bottles. In the fourth panel, she is lying on the ground, having melted into a pile of trashed water bottles.

This political cartoon depicts a haggard-looking Elon Musk, with a black eye and a black MAGA hat, splayed across an American flag. The lines on this flag are made of white powder, which Elon Musk is snorting through a straw.

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