September 30 editorial cartoons | The Week

This cartoon is drawn by Clay Jones in his wildly comic style. It depicts Donald Trump watching a television screen where a gunman in a MAGA hat fires an automatic rifle at a burning church while he says &ldquo;Make Liberals Cry!&rdquo; The right side of the screen shows a masked man with &ldquo;Antifa&rdquo; written on his shirt and a donkey. Trump says, &ldquo;This patriotic 2A-loving vet was only defending himself after radical left lunatics threw a burning Mormon church at him.&rdquo;

This cartoon is titled &ldquo;Special Delivery.&rdquo; It takes place outside the U.S. Capitol building and shows two dump trucks labeled &ldquo;Blame Republicans&rdquo; and &ldquo;Blame Democrats&rdquo; each dumping out foam fingers to point at each other. There is a sign on the steps that reads, &ldquo;Government Shut Down.&rdquo;

This cartoon depicts two National Guardsmen in full military uniform picking up trash. One says, &ldquo;So, you think you&rsquo;re suffering from PTSD?&rdquo; The other responds, &ldquo;Yeah. President Trump&rsquo;s silly deployments.&rdquo;

This cartoon depicts a man and a woman relaxing at an outdoor cafe. The woman reads a newspaper article and says, &ldquo;Kamala keeps saying she wrote her book, yet she can&rsquo;t seem to compose coherent sentences when she speaks.&rdquo; The man responds, &ldquo;By all accounts, the book is full of distortions and implausible efforts to blame others for her failure.&rdquo; The woman responds, &ldquo;So maybe she did write it.&rdquo;

This is a three-panel cartoon titled &ldquo;Presidents Address the United Nations.&rdquo; The first panel depicts John F. Kennedy, who says &ldquo;We need to grow to meet the challenges of our age.&rdquo; The second panel depicts Ronald Reagan, who says, &ldquo;We need to recognize the great common ground upon which we all stand.&rdquo; The third panel depicts Donald Trump, who says, &ldquo;Your countries are going to hell.&rdquo;

This cartoon is titled, &ldquo;Everything Trump Touches Dies Case #17,538.&rdquo; It depicts a graveyard with a gravestone near a gothic-looking, wrought-iron fence. The gravestone reads, &ldquo;Second Term for Eric Adams.&rdquo;

This political cartoon depicts a man and a woman walking on the sidewalk in Washington D.C. A tree is nearby and its leaves are falling. The man says, &ldquo;The days are getting cooler, the nights are getting longer and the Epstein files are beginning to drop&hellip;.&rdquo;

This cartoon depicts an older man and woman in their home. The man reads a newspaper while the woman, with a dog on her lap, looks at a table. The woman says, &ldquo;Sigh, they&rsquo;re threatening yet another government shutdown!&rdquo; The man says, &ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t they just go ahead and do it! I say we try things without a government for a while!&rdquo;

This cartoon depicts a woman and her young son at a pharmacy and is called &ldquo;Chauvinist Natalist Racist Capitalist Pharmacist.&rdquo; There is an angry-looking male pharmacist behind the counter, which displays items labeled &ldquo;Contraception&rdquo; The pharmacist points at the woman and says, &ldquo;First you control your own bodies, pretty soon the world runs short of white people and the whole consumption economy grinds to a halt!&rdquo;

This cartoon depicts Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump addressing an audience of stern-looking military generals. Hegseth has his arm around Trump and says, &ldquo;And NOW gentlemen, commander-in-chief Bonspur would like to say a few words about esprit de corps."

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