September 17 editorial cartoons | The Week

published 17 September 2025

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, &ldquo;I watch cable news and doom scroll social media..&rdquo; In the right panel, he says &ldquo;Where do you get your 24-hour outrage coverage?&rdquo;

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 &ldquo;Online Toxic Rhetoric.&rdquo;

This cartoon depicts Donald Trump speaking to Bill Clinton. Trump says, &ldquo;They keep hounding me and hounding me for stuff they said I did a very long time ago&hellip;&rdquo; Clinton responds, &ldquo;Me, too.&rdquo;

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

This political cartoon depicts Stephen Miller speaking to a group of reporters. One reporter says to another, &ldquo;If it swims like a duck, and talks like a duck, and goosesteps like a duck&hellip;&rdquo;

This cartoon depicts Donald Trump at top right in a tank labeled &ldquo;National Guard Tour&rdquo; passing signs pointing the way to Chicago and Memphis. He&rsquo;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 &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t Tread on Me&rdquo; T-Shirt and holds signs that read &ldquo;Small Gov&rsquo;t&rdquo; and &ldquo;States&rsquo; Rights.&rdquo;

This cartoon takes place at an intersection in a suburban town. A big truck labeled &ldquo;Pumpkin Spice Flavoring&rdquo; waits at a traffic signal. A family drives past and the woman in the family says, &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t believe fall is just around the corner.&rdquo;

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

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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; Trump is silent in the fifth panel. In the sixth, he writes &ldquo;And mention of the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter!&rdquo;

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

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