Mickey Mouse has a new message | Sept. 19 political cartoons | The Week

published 19 September 2025

This cartoon depicts Mickey Mouse surrounded by other Disney characters. Mickey Mouse wears a shirt that reads &ldquo;Vaccines are murder&rdquo; and says &ldquo;Hey, kids! Today your ol' pal Mickey&rsquo;s gonna teach you how to lick a boot!&rdquo; Snow White has an apron that reads &ldquo;Proud Trad Wife.&rdquo; Stitch holds a smoking handgun. Winnie the Pooh eats oil from a pot. Daffy Duck wears a MAGA hat. Goofy wears a Qanon shirt. Tinkerbell flies with a &ldquo;Trump&rdquo; flag and Jiminy Cricket&rsquo;s umbrella says &ldquo;Only two genders.&rdquo; One of the seven dwarves wears a Joe Rogan Experience T-shirt.

This editorial cartoon depicts the caduceus symbol for medicine with two snakes coiled together. However, these snakes are labeled Politics and Science and the Politics snake eats the science snake. A cracked vial of medicine labeled &ldquo;CDC Vaccine Panel&rdquo; is nearby on its site, leaking a liquid.

The political cartoon depicts a man and a woman outside a house where they are about to arrive at a dinner party. The woman carries a pot and the man a bottle of wine. The woman says, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t say anything controversial. Just talk about killing homeless people.&rdquo;

This cartoon is titled &ldquo;Reverse Course&hellip;&rdquo; It depicts a large rock in the ocean. Only the tip-top of the rock is above the water. That part is labeled &ldquo;Goodwill.&rdquo; The much larger part of the rock is below the water and is labeled &ldquo;Anger.&rdquo;

This is a four panel political cartoon that depicts a farmer signing to himself as he carries soybeans to plan, drives a tractor, and looks at his crops. He sings, &ldquo;Beans, beans, the musical fruit, the more you plant, the more you produce, the more you produce, the more you can sell, unless the market has gone to hell.&rdquo; The final frame shows the farmer in a barren field and he holds a sign that reads, &ldquo;No sales to China.&rdquo;

This is a two panel-editorial cartoon that depicts Donald Trump speaking to a woman in a USA T-shirt. The left panel is titled &ldquo;Free Speech&rdquo; and Trump says, &ldquo;What I say.&rdquo; The right panel is titled "Hate Speech." In this panel, Trump covers the woman&rsquo;s mouth and says, &ldquo;What you say.&rdquo;

This cartoon depicts a concerned man watching television. The headline on the screen is, &ldquo;News: Today&rsquo;s Shootings.&rdquo; The man thinks to himself, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s too much gun violence. To protect myself, I&rsquo;m going to buy a gun.&rdquo;

This Donald Trump cartoon is titled &ldquo;The President sues one of his ties for promoting the &lsquo;Democrat&rsquo; agenda.&rdquo; Trump wears a red tie and has taken off his blue tie.

This is a four panel political cartoon drawn in a wacky style that is titled &ldquo;Comedians canceled before Jimmy Kimmel.&rdquo; The first frame shows a smiling man in the guillotine and he says, &ldquo;How about that Napoleon? Waterlooser&hellip;&rdquo; Napoleon peeks at the man. The next panel shows a blindfolded man about to be executed by a firing squad. Hitler peeks at him over the wall as the man says, &ldquo;Hitler is so ugly his mama had to tie a wiener schnitzel around his next so the dog would play with him. I did Nazi this coming&hellip;&rdquo; The third panel depicts Vladimir Putin throwing a man off a roof. As he falls, the man says, &ldquo;Why hasn&rsquo;t Putin invaded Poland yet? Because he&rsquo;s Stalin!&rdquo; In the final panel, the man has had his arms and legs cut off but he still says to Kim Jong Un, &ldquo;Kim Jong Un is so fat&hellip; when he sits around the re-education camps&hellip; he sits around the re-education camps.&rdquo;

This cartoon depicts Attorney General Pam Bondi at a podium speaking to one reporter. She says, &ldquo;The DOJ will be targeting hate speech!&rdquo; The reporter says, &ldquo;Define hate speech.&rdquo; Bond responds, &ldquo;Speech that we hate!&rdquo;

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