David Green opened Hobby Lobby in 1972 and built it into a major chain while declaring God owns the company. The business faced repeated controversies including a 2014 Supreme Court case on health care mandates and a 2017 Bible Museum scandal involving smuggled Iraqi artifacts that resulted in a $3 million fine. The piece presents these events as a pattern of legal and ethical issues tied to the company's evangelical leadership.
The Mona Lisa receives an eye-popping valuation of seven trillion euros in a museum setting. The figure in the image conveys immediate disbelief at the figure. The piece highlights ongoing debates over astronomical art market prices for cultural treasures.
Rick McKee's cartoon depicts a dimly lit museum where a striped-shirted thief, masked and wielding a hammer, targets a display case with a red gas can marked 'GAS,' overlooking iconic pieces like the Mona Lisa portrait, Venus de Milo statue, a large diamond, Van Gogh-style sunflowers painting, abstract Mondrian-like art, and smaller framed works. An 'EXIT' sign glows above, and a 'no' symbol sign hangs nearby. The scene uses tags such as Trump, war, Iran, gas prices, oil, museum to comment on how escalating fuel costs make gasoline more valuable than cultural treasures, blending humor with commentary on energy crises.
A woman seated before an old television hears a report of valuable items stolen from the Louvre. Across the room a man in casual clothes holds a jeweled crown overhead and calls out about his eBay purchase. The cartoon links the museum robbery directly to an online marketplace transaction inside a suburban home. Dated October 21 2025 the image comments on the immediate aftermath of the Paris theft. The visual contrast between the broadcast and the domestic moment forms the central joke.
Trump and an Uncle Sam figure sit in a Smithsonian Museum theater watching Roots. Trump remarks this must be the movie that roots for the positive side of slavery. Heller connects the DeSantis-era benefits of slavery teaching standard to the 2025 Smithsonian content rollbacks.
