September 17 editorial cartoons

Wednesday’s political cartoons include a diet of outrage, toxic rhetoric, and tank treads on states' rights

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This is a two-panel political cartoon with a man and woman walking on a sidewalk. In the left panel, the man looks at his phone and says, “I watch cable news and doom scroll social media..” In the right panel, he says “Where do you get your 24-hour outrage coverage?”

(Image credit: Walt Handelsman / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

This political cartoon depicts a line of men in dark-colored clothing heading into a gun store. All of them have climbed out of a manhole labeled “Online Toxic Rhetoric.”

(Image credit: Mike Luckovich / Copyright 2025 Creators Syndicate)

This cartoon depicts Donald Trump speaking to Bill Clinton. Trump says, “They keep hounding me and hounding me for stuff they said I did a very long time ago…” Clinton responds, “Me, too.”

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

This cartoon shows an adolescent male in a library holding a dictionary and speaking to a female librarian behind a desk. He says, “How do I google something with this?”

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

This political cartoon depicts Stephen Miller speaking to a group of reporters. One reporter says to another, “If it swims like a duck, and talks like a duck, and goosesteps like a duck…”

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

This cartoon depicts Donald Trump at top right in a tank labeled “National Guard Tour” passing signs pointing the way to Chicago and Memphis. He’s just come past signs to Los Angeles and Washington. The rest of the image is dominated by a flattened MAGA supporter who has been crushed by the tank. The supporter wears a “Don’t Tread on Me” T-Shirt and holds signs that read “Small Gov’t” and “States’ Rights.”

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

This cartoon takes place at an intersection in a suburban town. A big truck labeled “Pumpkin Spice Flavoring” waits at a traffic signal. A family drives past and the woman in the family says, “I can’t believe fall is just around the corner.”

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

This political cartoon depicts a donkey holding a flamethrower surrounded by raging fire. The canisters fueling the flame-thrower are labeled “Trump is Hitler” and “Trump is a fascist.” The donkey says, “We all need to turn down the temperature.”

(Image credit: Gary Varvel / Copyright 2025 Creators Syndicate)

This Donald Trump cartoon is six panels and features Trump in each frame tapping out a message to Attorney General Pam Bondi on his phone. The message in the first four panels reads, “The radical left are trying to divide us with hate speech! Radical hate speech must be stopped and I want it stopped now! And by hate speech, you know what I mean.” Trump is silent in the fifth panel. In the sixth, he writes “And mention of the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

(Image credit: John Deering / Copyright 2025 Creators Syndicate)

This cartoon is titled “Tearing U.S. Apart.” Two demons play a tug-of-war by pulling apart a map of the United States. The demon on the left is labeled “Social Media.” The one on the right is “Network news.”

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

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