September 22 editorial cartoons

Monday’s political cartoons include the late-night comedians purge, Disney under fire, Donald Trump's dinner, and leeches instead of vaccines

This political cartoon depicts two spears that have both impaled court jesters’ hats. The words on the image read, “Then they came for the late night comedians” “And maybe people will get that it’s no joke.” The cartoonist has added a note that reads, “Apologies to Martin Niemoller” in reference to the man described by the United States Holocaust Museum as the “prominent Lutheran pastor in Germany … perhaps best remembered for his postwar statement, which begins ‘First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out…’

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

This cartoon depicts a man reading a book in bed next to a woman who watches television. The man says, “Who cares if the government cancels TV shows? We can still read an approved book.”

(Image credit: Bill Bramhall / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

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