Earth roasts on 'Hot Ones: Climate Edition' | May 15 editorial cartoons

Thursday's editorial cartoons feature trickle-down economics, Pope Leo XIV's music choice, MAGA's reaction to the 'woke Pope', Donald Trump's Amazon wishlist, and the job market for 2025 college graduates.

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This cartoon takes place in the middle of the ocean. An elephant drives a rescue boat near three people floating with lifejackets labeled "Medicaid." The elephant says, "You heard me. Billionaires on yachts need your life jackets."

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

This editorial cartoon takes place in the Vatican at a giant pipe organ. Pope Leo XIV speaks to a man seated at the organ and says: "Do you know 'Born in the USA'?"

(Image credit: Michael de Adder / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This political cartoon depicts a gap-toothed little girl with pigtails and dressed in an American flag shirt. She holds voodoo dolls that resemble Donald Trump and JD Vance and says, "I'm making do with TWO dolls instead of thirty!"

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

This political cartoon depicts a large, fat man in a suit gorging himself on tax cuts, cake, and other delicacies from a large tray. A small American family of mother, father, and daughter is under the tray and the mother says, "OK, so where's the trickle down?"

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

This political cartoon is titled "Hot Ones: Climate Edition" and resembles the YouTube show where people eat increasingly spicy chicken wings. A globe of Earth that resembles a human being is gasping for air with its tongue burning. The succession of sauces is "Climate 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024." A voice says "NEXT" as Earth is handed a bottle of "CLIMATE 2025."

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

This cartoon depicts Donald Trump at the "SAUDI INVESTMENT FORUM." He holds a piece of paper and asks a group of men in traditional Arab clothing, "HAVE YOU GUYS SEEN MY AMAZON WISHLIST?" The wishlist includes items like "JET," "YACHTS," "TOWERS," "HELICOPTERS," "PALACE," "BUY MY BITCOINS," "PRIVATE ISLAND," "HOTELS," "GOLF RESORTS," and "HAMBERDERS."

(Image credit: Clay Jones / Copyright 2025 Claytoonz)

This two panel cartoon depicts two cows eating. The left panel is titled "Cow Feed" and the right "SACRED COW Feed." The cow on the left, labeled "U.T. AGRICULTURE RESEARCH," looks questioningly at a small amount of feed labeled "FEDERAL FUNDING" in its trough. The cow on the right, labeled "BILLIONAIRES AND CORPORATIONS," greedily devours a large pile of feed made of dollar signs, overflowing from a trough labeled "TRUMP TAX CUTS."

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

This political cartoon depicts the Pope, standing on a raised platform with the words "PEACE" and "LOVE" in speech bubbles above him. Below, a group of people wearing red shirts and "MAGA" hats are shown with their hands over their ears and expressions of distress. Their shirts feature phrases like "NO WOKE POPE," "NOT MY POPE," "IT WAS RIGGED!," and "DEI HIRE."

(Image credit: R.J. Matson / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This cartoon features a man and a woman in a room with the Capitol looming in the distance. The man says, says, "PEOPLE ARE WORRIED! ONLY 12 APPEARANCES AT THE WHITE HOUSE IN OVER 100 DAYS!?!?" The woman replies, "I'M SURE MELANIA'S FINE." The man says, "I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION."

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

This cartoon depicts a commencement speaker at a podium with a university seal behind him. The speaker wears a graduation gown and glasses and looks down at their notes. The text below reads, "I WISH I HAD SOME GOOD ADVICE FOR THE CLASS OF 2025, BUT I'M STILL PAYING OFF MY STUDENT LOANS, SO I'M MOSTLY HERE TO PROMOTE MY ONLYFANS."

(Image credit: Drew Sheneman / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

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